Britain’s first and most notorious female serial killer
Mary Ann Cotton went down in criminal history as Britain’s first and, at the same time, most notorious female serial…
The Gripping Murder Trial of French Poisoner Marie Besnard
Marie Besnard went down in French criminal history as the “Poisoner of Loudon,” accused of poisoning 12 people with arsenic.…
When love turns to murder
Sometimes love turns to hate, or worse still, murder. This became a reality in the case of 22-year-old Franz Stockreiter.…
The Italian Countess
The Italian Countess Pia Bellentani caused a scandal in Italian high society. On 15 September 1948, at the legendary luxury…
The Coffee House Tragedy
Mariahilf is the 6th district of the Austrian capital, Vienna, which is home not only to Austria’s largest shopping street…
The Diary of Horror
An eight-month-long account by 40-year-old Inger Lise Bakken has gone down in Norwegian criminal history; it was so gruesome and…