The Manipulator
The Chessboard Killer
The Roermond Massacre
The drunkard
The Canal Killer
The end of the Simon gang
The Manipulator
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- March 21, 2026
A slight, pale man with a neatly combed side parting and rimless glasses managed, over a period of more than ten years, not only to gain control over an educated…
Read moreThe Chessboard Killer
- March 20, 2026
One of the worst serial killers in Russian criminal history is Alexander Pichushkin, better known as the Chessboard Killer. He wanted to kill 64 people, the same number of squares…
Read moreThe Roermond Massacre
- March 19, 2026
The city of Roermond, located in the Dutch province of Limburg on the border with Germany and close to Belgium, was once the scene of a bloody massacre in which…
Read moreThe drunkard
- March 18, 2026
A true family tragedy that ended with the death of a tyrant took place on November 22, 1923, in the Danube metropolis of Vienna. That night, 46-year-old restaurateur August Fritschko,…
Read moreThe Canal Killer
- March 17, 2026
A series of gruesome murders of seven male youths aged between 11 and 18 shook the Rhine-Main area in the 1980s. Between 1976 and 1983, seven male prostitutes from the…
Read moreThe end of the Simon gang
- March 16, 2026
After the end of World War II, gangs of robbers wreaked havoc in Austria’s capital, Vienna. They were known as the Plattenbrüder (Plate Brothers), and the most dangerous and largest…
Read more