As the “Witch of the Super-Rich,” Catherine Monvoisin—also known as “La Voisin”—made her mark on 17th-century French criminal history. She exploited the intrigues and desires that prevailed at the cou...
Sometimes life writes the craziest scripts, which seem so unbelievable that they defy rational explanation. This was also the case with the following crime story. On 16 September 1990, a man rang the ...
An Italian serial killer who remains an enigma to this day, as he simply murdered people without any apparent motive, was Roberto Succo. He was born on 3 April 1962 in Mestre, the son of a detective. ...
Mariahilf is the 6th district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, which is home not only to Austria’s largest shopping street but also to the largest inner-city market, the so-called Naschmarkt. In the 1...
An eight-month-long account by 40-year-old Inger Lise Bakken has gone down in Norwegian criminal history; it was so gruesome and yet so heart-rending that the public dubbed it ‘The Diary of Horror’. I...
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and 89 were bludgeoned t...
