One of the most prolific and, at the same time, most cruel female serial killers in criminal history was Belle Gunness, better known as ‘the Black Widow’. She was a woman standing 1.83 metres tall and...
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a...
A serial killer who abducted babies from their prams in order to sexually abuse them and then kill them was the Russian Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryuko, better known as the Baby Hunter. In the autumn of 1...
The sadistic serial killer Werner Kniesek went down in criminal history as one of Austria’s most dangerous criminals. Werner went off the rails at a young age, stealing, skipping school, and repeatedl...
In Finland, there has been only one convicted serial killer in the last 100 years, and that was Antti Olavi Taskinen. His first victim, in 1996, was a 20-year-old student from Tampere, to whom Taskine...
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among Scotland’s most notorious serial killers and ...
