The last person to be executed in Gmünd was Eva Kary, who allegedly killed her husband with arsenic. Eva Kary was born Eva Faschauner on December 21, 1737, in Malta, Carinthia, and her life remains a ...
Véronique Frantz, born around 1825, is a fascinating, albeit dark, figure in French criminal history. Her story takes place in Alsace and unfolds in a combination of love, jealousy, and deadly desire....
In 1849, a gruesome crime in London captured the public’s attention and left a lasting mark on history. Marie Manning, née de Roux, was born in Switzerland in 1821 and later emigrated to Great B...
The story of William Corder, better known as the “Red Barn Murder,” continues to fascinate people even after almost 200 years. This bloody episode from England not only led to one of the most sensatio...
In the 1860s, the glittering lights and foggy alleys of Virginia City in the US state of Nevada concealed not only the fortune seekers hoping to strike it rich with the Comstock Lode silver discovery,...
One of North America’s worst mass murders took place on September 9, 1949. On that day, a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-3C passenger plane exploded 65 kilometers east of Quebec City, killing 23 p...
