The Poison Empire
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- July 27, 2026
One of the most notorious female serial killers in criminal history was the Italian Hieronyma Spara, born in Rome in the 17th century and better known as ‘La Spara’. She…
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Castrated whilst still alive
- July 26, 2026
A heinous crime took place in Leipzig in October 2011 against 23-year-old Jonathan H., who was raped, stabbed 22 times, castrated, dismembered and subsequently thrown into the Elster basin in…
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The director
- July 25, 2026
The Russian Valery Georgievich Asratyan, better known as ‘the Director’, was a paedophile, serial rapist and murderer of young girls. He was born in 1958 in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.…
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The Dead Ballet Master
- 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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Murder without scruples
- July 23, 2026
The year is 1854. At that time, Mrs Jacob, a widow, lived with her lovely daughter Marie in a house on Breiten Gang in the Neustadt district of Hamburg. The…
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The Poisoned Dumplings
- July 22, 2026
A truly gripping crime thriller centred on dumplings laced with arsenic took place in Britain after the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The petite Elizabeth Fenning, known as Eliza, had…
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