In the wrong place at the wrong time
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…
Read moreOn 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…
Read moreOne 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…
Read moreMathias 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…
Read moreMore 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…
Read moreEveryone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is to blame for something, originates from an old dining custom.…
Read moreThe Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a highly volatile political period in which the old feudal system…
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