A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born...
There are murders that are sometimes difficult to comprehend, as they occur without any clearly identifiable motive. One such series of murders, which ranks among the worst massacres in Greek criminal...
For thousands of years, poison has been used as a murder weapon, and it was particularly popular amongst women, as it required no physical violence whatsoever to kill the victim. One woman who employe...
One of the greatest criminals in French history was François Ravaillac, who treacherously murdered King Henry IV. But why? François Ravaillac was born in 1578 in Touvre, near Angoulême. He grew up in ...
The French capital, Paris, is regarded as the City of Love par excellence, where countless lovers have sworn eternal love at its landmark, the legendary Eiffel Tower. Yet ‘la ville d’amour’ also has a...
On 22 April 1960, the very day on which, over 90 years ago, the Marxist, revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin also came into ...
