The Merry Widow
A notorious serial killer who went down in British criminal history as ‘The Merry Widow of Windy-Nook’ was Mary Elizabeth…
The most unusual motive for murder in German criminal history
People kill for a wide variety of reasons. Yet never before in German criminal history have people been murdered in…
The Mass Poisoning
One of the largest arsenic poisonings in human history, affecting more than 200 people, took place in Britain in 1858.…
The Beast of Birkenshaw
On 13 March 1927, Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born in New York City. At the time, no one could…
The Russian Satan in rock
A horrific series of murders targeting defenceless elderly women took place in Russia between 2002 and 2010. During this period,…
The Strangler of Aachen
A series of gruesome murders of five young female hitchhikers, three of whom had been raped before being strangled to…