The date is June 1, 1583. It was a warm summer evening when a well-dressed nobleman, who had just arrived from Prague in his four-horse carriage, took a room at the innkeeper Greger Rühel’s, as ...
One of the most sophisticated serial killers, who went down in Austrian criminal history as the Black Widow, was Elfriede Blauensteiner. Outwardly a devout woman, she was a devious and extremely greed...
The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim was 34-year-old Josefine Timal in 1883. Shortly afterwards, her 47-year-old aunt Kat...
A police officer, of all people, became a victim of his own legal system. On April 16, 1968, 24-year-old police officer Ernst Karl shot and killed two burglars in the garage of the Tivoli department s...
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...
