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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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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The lesbian nun
- July 21, 2026
Marie-Godfrida Cecilia Bombeek, alias Sister Godfrida, went down in criminal history as a drug-addicted, lesbian serial killer who murdered at least three people between 1976 and 1977. She was born…
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The Murderous Impostor
- July 20, 2026
The year was 1918, when the First World War had come to an end. There were supply shortages throughout Austria, which led to the emergence of black markets. These were,…
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The Executed Underworld Bosses
- July 19, 2026
It was July 27, 1995, when Markus Klenk set out on that warm summer day to search for beer cans in a parking lot in Hedelfingen, a district in southeastern…
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