The story of Hannah Brown is one of the most gruesome murder stories London has ever seen. In 1837, the citizens of the capital were shaken by a crime so gruesome that it both fascinated and disgusted...
The last execution in the baroque city of Fulda took place on November 21, 1856, carried out by master executioner Johann Conrad Lucas. He was practically born into the profession, as his family had h...
In 1912, in the sleepy town of Villisca, Iowa, with a population of 2,000, a crime occurred that shook the nation and remains unsolved to this day. On the fateful night of June 9-10, a family of six a...
One of the most spectacular cases in French criminal history was the Gouffé case. Toussaint-Agustin Gouffé was a 49-year-old widowed court clerk who had two daughters and lived in Paris. This respecta...
Since time immemorial, torture has been a popular method of tormenting people until they reveal information. Torture is particularly popular among criminal organizations as a means of inflicting physi...
One of the most brutal murders in Austrian criminal history, which even led to a parliamentary debate on tougher sentencing, took place on January 8, 1960. But first things first. On the morning of Ja...
