The whipping boy
The last execution at Rabenstein
The greedy serial killer
The dead man on the railroad tracks
The new scientific method of murder
The greedy butcher
The whipping boy
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- March 3, 2026
As in almost all companies, there is often a whipping boy among the employees who is punished for the mistakes of others and is ridiculed. One such whipping boy was…
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- March 2, 2026
Like Rome, the Franconian city of Bamberg was built on seven hills, which is why it was nicknamed Franconian Rome. In 1832, the last public execution took place on the…
Read moreThe greedy serial killer
- March 1, 2026
One serial killer who murdered out of pure greed was Maximilian Gufler, who went down in Austrian post-war history as the Bluebeard of St. Pölten. Like the fairy-tale king Bluebeard,…
Read moreThe dead man on the railroad tracks
- February 28, 2026
On July 24, 1884, around midnight, the engineer of the express freight train from Vienna to Marchegg saw a person lying on the tracks in the headlights near Gänserndorf. The…
Read moreThe new scientific method of murder
- February 27, 2026
The charismatic Karl Hopf was a true devil in human form who invented a new scientific method of murder and went down in German criminal history as a serial killer.…
Read moreThe greedy butcher
- February 26, 2026
On a hot summer day in June 1847, the butcher’s apprentice Wilhelm Heinrich Armbruster was working in a field on Neckarweihinger Straße in Ludwigsburg. From a distance, he saw the…
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