The Dead Ballet Master
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- July 24, 2026
One of the most mysterious cases in German criminal history is the murder of the ballet master Hans Storck. It was 22 May 1962 when 13-year-old Axel Rumpf von Mansfeld,…
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24 stab wounds
- July 1, 2026
In Baden-Württemberg, there are over 400 cold cases whose files eventually end up in the police archives. One of these cold cases took place in 1985 in the picturesque city…
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Who murdered the nursery school teacher?
- May 24, 2026
This question remains unanswered to this day, making it one of Germany’s most mysterious cold cases. The New Year of 1994 was barely six hours old when a horrific crime…
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Murder in the Penthouse
- May 8, 2026
A truly heinous murder, which still raises many questions to this day, took place on May 15, 2006, in the penthouse above the Isarparkhaus at Baaderstr. 6 in the Bavarian…
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The Mysterious Stranger
- May 4, 2026
In Germany, there are more than 3,000 unsolved homicides known as cold cases. One of them is the murder of 31-year-old Italian aerospace engineer Domenico Lorusso, which went down in…
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Suicide or murder, that is the question?
- March 27, 2026
Suicide or murder, that was the question in the Paul Blomert case, which dominated the media landscape throughout Germany in 1961. But what had happened? On August 25, 1961, around…
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