A particularly insidious assassination attempt was carried out on November 1, 2006, against former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. He was admitted to a London hospital after being poisoned. Doctor...
A murder that made criminal history, as it has not yet been possible to determine how a lethal amount of chloroform ended up in the stomach of the murder victim, is the murder of Thomas Edwin Bartlett...
A mysterious murder that still raises many questions today took place in the Memorial Church, the campus church of the elite Stanford University. The victim was 19-year-old Arlis Perry, who was found ...
A sadistic killer in American criminal history who spread fear and terror in Dallas in the early 1990s was Charles Fredrick Albright, alias the Eyeball Killer. Charles earned this nickname because he ...
Johannes-Andreas Hanni went down in criminal history worldwide as the Hannibal Lecter of Estonia. He was born on March 24, 1957, in Valga, the son of a Baptist pastor. Shortly after his birth, the fam...
A woman who survived her own execution and thus immortalized herself in criminal history was the young Frenchwoman Helene Gillet. She was the 22-year-old daughter of the royal castellan of Bourg-en-Br...
