Since time immemorial, torture has been a popular method of tormenting people until they reveal information. Torture is particularly popular among criminal organizations as a means of inflicting physi...
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...
On October 29, 1962, Stefan Mitteregger filed a missing person report for his severely depressed wife, Karoline Mitteregger, a 45-year-old brunette measuring 1.72 meters tall, at the police station in...
One of the first circumstantial evidence trials of the Weimar Republic, which lasted from 1918 to 1933 and saw parliamentary democracy reign in Germany for the first time, was the double murder of Wil...
One of Germany’s most exciting criminal cases was the double murder of the entrepreneur couple Karl and Renate Heinzerling from Morschen, a town with 4,000 inhabitants in Hesse. Karl Heinzerling...
Nine months after Manfred Seel from Schwalbach im Taunus was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in November 2013, he died at the age of 67. Just a few months earlier, his beloved wife had passed away. A...
