A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler of Vienna’. She was born...
For over six years, between 1991 and 1997, a serial killer and rapist terrorised the streets of Paris, preying on young women. During this period, a total of seven women were raped, tied up and had th...
On 22 April 1960, the very day on which, over 90 years ago, the Marxist, revolutionary and founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, was born, Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin also came into ...
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...
