The witch trial
One of the most famous witch trials in German history was the Pappenheimer case. It took place in Munich in…
Mannheim’s Chicago-style mail robbery
A movie-like mail robbery, which according to a US major from the Criminal Investigation Division in Heidelberg could only have…
The “Poison Affair”: The dark shadows at the court of France’s Sun King, Louis XIV.
In 17th-century Paris, where glamour and glitz were often overshadowed by dark secrets and intrigue, the so-called “poison affair” took…
The female psychopath
Only about 15 percent of serial killers are female. One of them, whose murders were extremely brutal for a woman,…
The murder plot
A deviously planned murder plot, which went down in criminal history as the “barrel murder,” took place in 2007 in…
The missing boy
On September 3, 2010, 10-year-old Mirco Schlitter disappeared while riding his grass-green dirt bike home from the skate park in…