One of America’s biggest sex scandals is the case of US billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who not only sexually abused hundreds of young girls, but allegedly ran a full-blown sex trade involving them...
A murder so brutal that it shook the whole of Austria was that of 59-year-old Hungarian businesswoman Ildiko, whose killer was her own son. Ildiko had once married a count from an ancient Hungarian no...
Over 100 years ago, the Danube metropolis of Vienna was the scene of a vicious acid attack that took place among the European aristocracy. The victim of the acid attack was none other than Prince Leop...
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 ...
One of the most sophisticated serial killers, who went down in Austrian criminal history as the Black Widow, was Elfriede Blauensteiner. Outwardly a devout woman, she was a devious and extremely greed...
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...
