The Axe Murder
Cyprus’s First Serial Killer
The Mother-Killer
The Railway Rapists
The Nymphomaniac
The ‘Death’ Guesthouse
The Axe Murder
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- August 31, 2026
A sensational criminal case in postwar Germany was the murder of a man who had been brutally killed with an axe by his own wife. The murderer was the attractive,…
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- August 30, 2026
On July 14, 2019, a German tourist discovered the severely decomposed body of a woman in an abandoned mine shaft not far from the village of Mitsero. The body had…
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- August 29, 2026
One of the most famous matricides was Orestes from Greek mythology. Another man who committed matricide – the technical term for when a child kills their mother – was Kalistros…
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- August 28, 2026
John Francis Duffy and David Mulcahy, better known as the Railway Rapists and Railway Killers, were a murderous duo who, in the 1980s, preyed on women at remote railway stations…
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- August 27, 2026
Valeria Messalina, a Roman woman, was regarded not only as an insatiable nymphomaniac but also as a cold-blooded murderer with numerous lives on her conscience. She was the third wife…
Read moreThe ‘Death’ Guesthouse
- August 26, 2026
The Padrón Guesthouse in Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a guesthouse where two people lost their lives in a gruesome manner. The scene of the crime was Room 306, which…
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