When you think of a serial killer, an old granny probably doesn’t immediately spring to mind. But in fact, a Russian pensioner from St. Petersburg is said to have killed and decapitated eleven p...
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...
An incredibly cruel murder took place in Athens in 2015. On April 21, 2015, 25-year-old Dimitria Borisova reported her 4-year-old daughter Ani missing to the police. Dimitria had left her daughter wit...
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...
