One of the most famous German serial killers in literature was Simeon Fleischer. Born in Fulda, Simeon Fleischer trained as a wool weaver and had a special talent for wrapping women around his finger....
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...
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the Frankfurt and Offenbach train st...
Belgium’s deadliest serial killer is undoubtedly Marie Alexandrine Becker. She was born Marie Alexandrine Petitjean on July 14, 1879, in Landen, where she grew up on a farm. At the age of 16, Ma...
One serial killer who murdered out of pure greed was Maximilian Gufler, who went down in Austrian post-war history as the Bluebeard of St. Pölten. Like the fairy-tale king Bluebeard, he killed his wiv...
In June 2010, two brutal attacks on female taxi drivers in the Lake Constance area shook the whole of Germany. The perpetrator, 28-year-old Andrej W., went down in criminal history as the taxi murdere...
