Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial killer. The former nurse is believed to have killed between 14 and 20 people over a...
It was 1937 when, on the evening of 11 March, the carpenter Leopold Hasel turned up at the Landstraße police station at Gürtel 252 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. There, he told the duty officer that a ...
A serial killer who abducted babies from their prams in order to sexually abuse them and then kill them was the Russian Anatoly Nikolaevich Biryuko, better known as the Baby Hunter. In the autumn of 1...
In Baden-Württemberg, there are over 400 cold cases whose files eventually end up in the police archives. One of these cold cases took place in 1985 in the picturesque city of Konstanz, the jewel of L...
Between 1962 and 1966, four boys were sexually abused, killed, and then dismembered with a butcher’s knife in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was only when one of the boys managed to escape that this horri...
A Czech Robin Hood, revered in many popular Czech songs and novels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a protector of the poor against the authorities, was the bandit chief Wenzel Babinsky. H...
