The Werewolf
The Swindler
In the wrong place at the wrong time
The Panther Gang
The Last Bandit of Bavaria
The Missing Lolita
The Werewolf
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- April 12, 2026
In the 16th and 17th centuries, people were accused not only of witchcraft and sorcery, but also of being werewolves. One person who was actually convicted of being a werewolf…
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- April 11, 2026
Countess Henkel von Kramschütz was a true femme fatale who instantly set every man’s heart aflutter. The attractive countess had many admirers who financed her extremely lavish lifestyle. In December…
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- April 10, 2026
On his day off, February 20, 1995, 44-year-old detective Christian Gillinger was up early to buy his 8-year-old son’s favorite doughnuts at a small pastry shop in Vienna’s Hietzing district…
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- April 9, 2026
One of the most dangerous criminal gangs of the postwar era, which terrorized all of Munich, was the Panther Gang. The leader of this ruthless gang was Hugo Werner, a…
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- April 8, 2026
Mathias Kneißl was a true bandit legend who continues to inspire countless films and books to this day. This last bandit of Bavaria was born on May 12, 1875, in…
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- April 7, 2026
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in the Vulkaneifel region of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she lived in…
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