Morphine was invented in 1804 by pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who was able to extract the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium poppy. Since it was an effective painkiller t...
In the small, secluded village of Saint-Eyr-la-Rossière, where the sun rose over the rolling hills and the birds chirped cheerfully, there lived a child who was far removed from these idyllic images. ...
Anna Delpech, better known as L’Ogresse, went down in French criminal history as a child murderer. The name was derived from Ogre, a man-eating monster in French mythology. In 1868, during the l...
A truly gruesome cannibal who went down in French criminal history as a serial killer was Blaize Ferrage, better known as Seyé. Blaize Ferrage was born in 1755 in the French village of Ceseau. Althoug...
It was 1979 when, on January 2, 69-year-old retired accountant Josef Brunner was found dead by the police, half-naked and covered in blood, in his bathtub in his apartment on Werinherstraße in Giesing...
The year is 1819. On February 8, retired schoolmaster Carl Ludwig Sartori sat at the dining room table with his wife Elisabetha Magdalena. The fire in the fireplace warmed the room and Elisabetha spre...
