The largest of the Orkney Islands, an archipelago of 70 islands, is Mainland, whose main town is Kirkwall with over 7,000 inhabitants. In the summer of 1994, a terrible crime took place in this tranqu...
Anna Delpech, better known as L’Ogresse, went down in French criminal history as a child murderer. The name was derived from Ogre, a man-eating monster in French mythology. In 1868, during the l...
Only about 15 percent of serial killers are female. One of them, whose murders were extremely brutal for a woman, is the British Joanna Dennehy. In March 2013, she murdered three men within 10 days wi...
A truly gruesome cannibal who went down in French criminal history as a serial killer was Blaize Ferrage, better known as Seyé. Blaize Ferrage was born in 1755 in the French village of Ceseau. Althoug...
More than 35 years ago, a brutal robbery and murder of a prominent widow shook the Rhine-Main area. On June 11, 1989, 74-year-old Margarethe Buckwitz, the widow of former Frankfurt theater director Ha...
It was 1979 when, on January 2, 69-year-old retired accountant Josef Brunner was found dead by the police, half-naked and covered in blood, in his bathtub in his apartment on Werinherstraße in Giesing...
