The dead man on the railroad tracks
On July 24, 1884, around midnight, the engineer of the express freight train from Vienna to Marchegg saw a person lying on the tracks in the headlights near Gänserndorf. The…
Read moreOn July 24, 1884, around midnight, the engineer of the express freight train from Vienna to Marchegg saw a person lying on the tracks in the headlights near Gänserndorf. The…
Read moreThe charismatic Karl Hopf was a true devil in human form who invented a new scientific method of murder and went down in German criminal history as a serial killer.…
Read moreOn a hot summer day in June 1847, the butcher’s apprentice Wilhelm Heinrich Armbruster was working in a field on Neckarweihinger Straße in Ludwigsburg. From a distance, he saw the…
Read moreIn the fog of the cruel past, a cruel memory emerges that makes your blood run cold. It was a cold morning in September 1913 when Ernst August Wagner, a…
Read moreA scenario reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film “Rear Window” occurred on June 6, 1925. On that day, housekeeper Josefine Kaiser looked through her window into the apartment opposite, where…
Read moreA British criminal case that set a precedent with global implications for jurisprudence was the criminal proceedings in Regina v. Dudley and Stephens. The year was 1884 when, on May…
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