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…
The Werewolf
In the 16th and 17th centuries, people were accused not only of witchcraft and sorcery, but also of being werewolves.…
The Telltale Fingerprints
The first murder case in Germany to be solved using dactyloscopy was the murder of Anna Marie Lehmann, the widow…
The Swindler
Countess Henkel von Kramschütz was a true femme fatale who instantly set every man’s heart aflutter. The attractive countess had…
In the wrong place at the wrong time
On his day off, February 20, 1995, 44-year-old detective Christian Gillinger was up early to buy his 8-year-old son’s favorite…
The Panther Gang
One of the most dangerous criminal gangs of the postwar era, which terrorized all of Munich, was the Panther Gang.…