A true story that never ceases to shock me is that of Blanche Monnier, who was locked up by her own mother, Louise Monnier, in the attic of their house in the French town of Poitiers for 25 years, wit...
A slight, pale man with a neatly combed side parting and rimless glasses managed, over a period of more than ten years, not only to gain control over an educated French aristocratic family spanning th...
One of the worst serial killers in Russian criminal history is Alexander Pichushkin, better known as the Chessboard Killer. He wanted to kill 64 people, the same number of squares on a chessboard. Ale...
Being committed to a psychiatric hospital against your will for seven years, and for no reason, is truly a horror scenario for anyone. This is exactly what happened to Gustl Ferdinand Mollath. He was ...
The disappearance of a 19-year-old actress named Tamara Teodorowitsch made headlines at the end of May 1959, with wild theories ranging from kidnapping to secret service involvement. Tamar Teodorowits...
One of the most brutal serial killers in Canadian history is undoubtedly Robert Pickton. He ran a pig farm in Port Coquitlam and killed his victims, mostly prostitutes, shredded them with a grinder, a...
