The mysterious murder of a high-class prostitute

Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, which is still frowned upon by the public today, but continues to be practiced secretly. This double standard was particularly evident when…

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Years of sex with a corpse

The story of Dr. von Cosel could easily have come straight out of a horror book. He was born Georg Karl Tänzler on February 8, 1877, in Dresden. In 1926,…

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Thomas Rung: Berlin’s most dangerous serial killer

Thomas Rung is a dark figure in German criminal history, considered one of Berlin’s most dangerous serial killers since the end of the war and having spent more years in…

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Raped and buried alive

A heinous crime that took 30 years to solve occurred in 1988. It was January 4 when Ursula B., then 22 years old, left the Nacht-Café nightclub in Aschaffenburg at…

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The Heathland Thriller

One of the most exciting criminal cases in the Netherlands took place in the Brunssummerheide, of all places. This 600-hectare nature reserve in the Dutch province of Limburg, between the…

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The Grandmother Killer

A brutal crime that shocked an entire nation was the murder of 66-year-old widow and grandmother Shirley Leach. This small, petite woman with brown curls had visited her sick daughter…

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