The Island of Death
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- August 21, 2026
A horrific massacre in which over 40 people lost their lives took place on 10 August 1896 on Guadalcanal, the main island of the Solomon Islands, an archipelago in the…
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The Cannibalistic Murder Duo
- August 18, 2026
In 1912, a newspaper article appeared in St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, which struck fear into the hearts of readers. It reported on a cannibalistic murder duo from the village…
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The sadistic child abuser
- August 17, 2026
Two days before Christmas, on 22 December 1923, 12-year-old Grete Pilz was found by the police, utterly terrified, in the freezing cold on the Wilheminenberg in Vienna’s 16th district, Ottakring.…
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The deadly potency pills
- August 13, 2026
The following gripping criminal case proves that poisonings are not only committed by women. It was 17 November 1909 when Captain Richard Mader, who served in the railway department of…
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Forced to eat faeces
- August 12, 2026
One of the most chilling female serial killers in criminal history was the 15-year-old Frenchwoman Marie-Françoise Bougaran, who, in an extremely perfidious manner, killed the children entrusted to her care…
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The Strangler of Vienna
- August 11, 2026
A young woman who struck fear into the hearts of the people of the Austrian capital, Vienna, during the First World War was Leopoldine Kasparek, better known as ‘The Strangler…
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