The Pencil Murder
Hannibal’s younger brother
The ashes of the dead in the pillow
The Nurse of Death
The Poisonous Princess
The King’s Assassin
The Pencil Murder
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- August 9, 2026
A spectacular murder case that still sends shivers down the spine today took place in Wiener Neustadt in 1973. It was 3 March 1973 when 11-year-old Gabriele K. was on…
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- August 8, 2026
There are murders that are sometimes difficult to comprehend, as they occur without any clearly identifiable motive. One such series of murders, which ranks among the worst massacres in Greek…
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- August 7, 2026
As is well known, real life writes the best stories, as the following criminal case proves. On 8 August 2018, Ekaterina R.-S., a 48-year-old woman originally from Bulgaria, found her…
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- August 6, 2026
Thallium is a heavy metal which, like arsenic, was formerly used as rat poison because it is odourless and tasteless. However, it is not only lethal to rats, but also…
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- August 5, 2026
For thousands of years, poison has been used as a murder weapon, and it was particularly popular amongst women, as it required no physical violence whatsoever to kill the victim.…
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- August 4, 2026
One of the greatest criminals in French history was François Ravaillac, who treacherously murdered King Henry IV. But why? François Ravaillac was born in 1578 in Touvre, near Angoulême. He…
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