It is a fact that smells evoke memories because they are often associated with strong emotions. This was also the case with Anatoli Yemelyanovich Slviko, who was so aroused by the smell of burnt human...
Adolf Schandl was a true criminal who managed to escape from one of Austria’s most secure prisons and thus went down in Austrian criminal history as the “escape king.” Adolf Schandl was born in ...
Between 1978 and 1983, 15 young men aged between 14 and 23 were killed by a serial killer in London. First, he strangled his victims until they lost consciousness, then drowned them in a bucket full o...
A deeply evil crime took place on January 15, 2016, in an apartment in the Anna-Boschek-Hof residential complex on Davidsgasse in Vienna’s 10th district, Favoriten. There, 72-year-old widow Mari...
In 1981, an event took place in the GDR that was unique in the history of criminal investigation. In order to solve the murder of 7-year-old Lars Bense, the People’s Police collected and evaluat...
One of the most bizarre criminal cases was that of farmer Rudolph Rupp, known as Rudi. He was a farmer in Neuberg an der Donau who disappeared without a trace on October 13, 2001, after visiting the B...









