The Merry Widow
Isabella Mueller (crime writer)
- June 14, 2026
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth Wilson, who poisoned her husbands in order to get her…
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The most unusual motive for murder in German criminal history
- June 13, 2026
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in an attempt to secure the release of a criminal serving…
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The Mass Poisoning
- June 12, 2026
One of the largest arsenic poisonings in human history, affecting more than 200 people, took place in Britain in 1858. But how on earth did it come about? It all…
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The Beast of Birkenshaw
- June 11, 2026
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could have imagined that Peter would one day be counted among…
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The Russian Satan in rock
- June 10, 2026
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period, no fewer than 17 elderly women aged between 61 and…
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The Strangler of Aachen
- June 9, 2026
A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to death, took place between 1983 and 1990 in the Aachen…
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