The Heist of the Century
On November 26, 1983, at around 6:40 a.m., six armed men wearing balaclavas raided the Brink’s Mat security depot near…
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…