The Executed Underworld Bosses
Murder in Scotland’s most dangerous city
The Acid Bath Murderer
The 132-Year-Old Skull
Dr Morphium
The Killer Nun
The Executed Underworld Bosses
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- July 19, 2026
It was July 27, 1995, when Markus Klenk set out on that warm summer day to search for beer cans in a parking lot in Hedelfingen, a district in southeastern…
Read moreMurder in Scotland’s most dangerous city
- July 18, 2026
Glasgow remains Scotland’s most dangerous city, where the murderer Susan Newell once wreaked havoc. She was the last woman in Scotland to be hanged as a result of a death…
Read moreThe Acid Bath Murderer
- July 17, 2026
John George Haigh went down in criminal history as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’. This British serial killer murdered six people out of greed. He always followed the same modus operandi.…
Read moreThe 132-Year-Old Skull
- July 16, 2026
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose skull was not found until 132 years later. On March…
Read moreDr Morphium
- July 15, 2026
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting the substance from opium, the milky sap of the opium…
Read moreThe Killer Nun
- July 14, 2026
A nun who, in the name of God, is believed to have more than 177 people to her name was the Greek woman Mariam Soulakiotis, better known as Mother Rasputin.…
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