The Poisonous Bride
The story of Marie Margarethe Beier—known simply as Grete—could easily have come straight out of a penny dreadful. She was…
The Satanic Murder
The youngest people in Irish history to be convicted of murder were two 14-year-old boys. They had brutally killed a…
The Illegal Hemp Plantation
An intriguing criminal case, which had to be pieced together like a puzzle, unfolded on May 11, 2006. That night,…
The Fateful Leaf
A criminal case as tricky as a puzzle took place in 1998. On November 23, around 9 a.m., a cyclist…
The Tortured Girls
One of the most notorious murder cases in Spanish criminal history involves the so-called Alcásser girls. These were three girls—Miriam…
The Worst Female Poisoner of All Time
The worst female poisoner of all time, who is even listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, was Maria…