The Ice-Cold Parking Lot Killer
One of Germany’s most spectacular series of robbery-murders took place in the mid-1980s. At remote rest stops, a masked man…
Vienna’s Texas King
On the morning of September 1, 1928, a shootout straight out of a Western movie took place on Rilkeplatz in…
The Fateful Love Story
The love story of Wilhelm Dengler and Emilie Stadler could easily have come straight out of a soap opera script.…
The most convenient and, at the same time, most insidious method of murder
One of the most popular—and perhaps even the most popular—methods women use to kill someone is poison. Poisoning is considered…
The package in the cornfield
It was 1922 when, on July 17, a hot summer day, a farmer found a package in a cornfield in…
Suicide or murder, that is the question?
Suicide or murder, that was the question in the Paul Blomert case, which dominated the media landscape throughout Germany in…