The fascination of evil
Evil has always fascinated people. Whether it’s car accidents on the highway that you just can’t look away from, or…
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…