The mystery of the missing Joan Carolyn Risch
An unexplained disappearance shook the whole of America in 1961. Joan Carolyn Risch, then 31 years old, a mother of…
Vienna’s Black Widow
One of the most sophisticated serial killers, who went down in Austrian criminal history as the Black Widow, was Elfriede…
Vienna’s first serial killer
The year was 1870 when a series of murders of female servants terrorized the population of Vienna. The first victim…
The gay police officer
A police officer, of all people, became a victim of his own legal system. On April 16, 1968, 24-year-old police…
The Poisoning Mystery
A murder that made criminal history, as it has not yet been possible to determine how a lethal amount of…
The Immortal
A woman who survived her own execution and thus immortalized herself in criminal history was the young Frenchwoman Helene Gillet.…