The Murderous Impostor
The year was 1918, when the First World War had come to an end. There were supply shortages throughout Austria,…
The Executed Underworld Bosses
It was July 27, 1995, when Markus Klenk set out on that warm summer day to search for beer cans…
Murder in Scotland’s most dangerous city
Glasgow remains Scotland’s most dangerous city, where the murderer Susan Newell once wreaked havoc. She was the last woman in…
The Acid Bath Murderer
John George Haigh went down in criminal history as the ‘Acid Bath Murderer’. This British serial killer murdered six people…
The 132-Year-Old Skull
One of the most spectacular crimes of the Victorian era was the murder of 55-year-old widow Julia Martha Thomas, whose…
Dr Morphium
Morphium, now known as morphine, was invented in 1804 by the pharmacist Friedrich Wilhelm Adam Sertürner, who succeeded in extracting…