The Missing Lolita
More than 30 years ago, 18-year-old Lolita Brieger disappeared. She worked as an unskilled seamstress in Jünkerath, a village in…
The Soup You’ve Made for Yourself
Everyone knows the saying: “You have to eat the soup you’ve made for yourself.” This idiom, used when someone is…
Murder in the Highest Circles
The Chorinsky case was a sensational crime that kept the international press in suspense for months and occurred during a…
Fatal Sex
One of the greatest miscarriages of justice in Germany was the case of Hans Hetzel, who was wrongfully imprisoned for…
The Deadly Potion
To this day, the ruins of Weibertreu Castle in Weinsberg—which the famous senior physician Justinus Kerner saved from ruin by…
The Dead Woman in the Bathtub
After the end of World War II, there was great hardship in Vienna, the metropolis on the Danube. There was…