The date is June 1, 1583. It was a warm summer evening when a well-dressed nobleman, who had just arrived from Prague in his four-horse carriage, took a room at the innkeeper Greger Rühel’s, as ...
The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim was 34-year-old Josefine Timal in 1883. Shortly afterwards, her 47-year-old aunt Kat...
A murder that made criminal history, as it has not yet been possible to determine how a lethal amount of chloroform ended up in the stomach of the murder victim, is the murder of Thomas Edwin Bartlett...
A sadistic killer in American criminal history who spread fear and terror in Dallas in the early 1990s was Charles Fredrick Albright, alias the Eyeball Killer. Charles earned this nickname because he ...
Johannes-Andreas Hanni went down in criminal history worldwide as the Hannibal Lecter of Estonia. He was born on March 24, 1957, in Valga, the son of a Baptist pastor. Shortly after his birth, the fam...
A woman who survived her own execution and thus immortalized herself in criminal history was the young Frenchwoman Helene Gillet. She was the 22-year-old daughter of the royal castellan of Bourg-en-Br...
