The lecherous pensioner
The Cannibal of Koblenz
Rasputin, the Tsar’s advisor
The Merry Widow
The most unusual motive for murder in German criminal history
The Mass Poisoning
The lecherous pensioner
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- June 17, 2026
A heinous crime, in which two people were brutally murdered, took place in 2004 in Austria’s capital, Vienna. At 10.14 pm on 16 June, an emergency call was received by…
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- June 16, 2026
Thomas S., better known as the Cannibal of Koblenz, was a man-eater who cooked body parts with rice in the oven. The victim of the unemployed electrician was his 22-year-old…
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- June 15, 2026
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a legendary figure who went down in Russian history as an itinerant preacher, miracle healer, advisor to the Tsar and sexual predator. Grigori Rasputin was a…
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- June 14, 2026
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, who poisoned her husbands in order to get her…
Read moreThe most unusual motive for murder in German criminal history
- June 13, 2026
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving…
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- June 12, 2026
One of the largest arsenic poisonings in human history, affecting more than 200 people, took place in Britain in 1858. But how on earth did it come about? It all…
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