The clothes of the dead women
Fritz Erbe and his 30-year-old mistress, Dorothee Buntrock, were a cunning murderous duo who robbed young women not only of…
Scotland’s Last Witch
The last woman to be convicted under a British witchcraft law from 1735, the so-called “Witchcraft Act,” was 46-year-old Scot…
The Brutal Sex Murder
A sex murder that remained unsolved for 20 years became one of the greatest mysteries in German criminal history. In…
The Child Murderer
In 1772, the child murderer Susanna Margaretha Brandt was the talk of the town in Frankfurt am Main, the birthplace…
The Fettmilch Uprising
Over 400 years ago, social tensions arose in Frankfurt am Main between the citizens and the city’s rulers, an event…
The Blameless Civil Servant and the Viennese Oyster
On March 9, 1931, at around 6:15 a.m., laborer Eduard Fuchs made a gruesome discovery at Krummgasse 2 in Vienna’s…