Christa Lehmann was a serial killer who went down in German criminal history as the “Poison Witch of Worms.” The mother of four was the first person in Germany to use the highly toxic, over-the-counte...
Fritz Erbe and his 30-year-old mistress, Dorothee Buntrock, were a cunning murderous duo who robbed young women not only of their jewelry and clothing, but also of their lives. She was born in Holzmin...
In 1772, the child murderer Susanna Margaretha Brandt was the talk of the town in Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the man with whom I share a birthday. At the time, he...
Over 400 years ago, social tensions arose in Frankfurt am Main between the citizens and the city’s rulers, an event that went down in history as the Fettmilch Uprising. The name derives from one of th...
On March 9, 1931, at around 6:15 a.m., laborer Eduard Fuchs made a gruesome discovery at Krummgasse 2 in Vienna’s 3rd district, Landstraße. He found two legs wrapped in packing paper. He immediately a...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, people were accused not only of witchcraft and sorcery, but also of being werewolves. One person who was actually convicted of being a werewolf was Martin Blome in 1605...
