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...
The gas man is here—when this sentence was uttered, it meant death. In the early 1970s, a robber and murderer posing as a gas man terrorized the entire city of Vienna. His victims were elderly women l...
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...
