Marie Fikáčková – The Woman Who Murdered At Least 10 Newborns
On April 13, 1961, Czechoslovakian maternity ward nurse Marie Fikacková was hanged at Prague’s Pankrac Prison for murdering newborn babies in her care. She was ultimately convicted...
The Hinterkaifeck Murder Mystery
Hinterkaifeck, a small remote farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of Ingolstadt and Schrobenhausen, about 45 miles north of Munich, was the scene of one of the...
Mary H. Reeser – Spontaneous Human Combustion Victim
Reports of spontaneous human combustion, where a person bursts into flame with no apparent cause, date back to the late 15th century. Of the more recent cases however,...
Jeanne Weber – Serial Child Killer
Jeanne Weber was a French serial killer, who strangled at least 10 children, including her own. She was both convicted of murder and declared insane in 1908...
The Babes in the Woods murders
On November 24, 1934, the bodies of three young girls, 8 year old Cordelia Noakes, Dewilla Noakes, aged 10, and their 12 year old half sister Norma...
The Nelson Rehmeyer Hex Murder House
It is difficult to imagine witchcraft trials in the 20th century, however, in 1920s York County, Pennsylvania was still steeped in old Dutch mysticism, a superstition that...
Ronald Clark O’Bryan – The Man Who Killed Halloween
Ronald Clark O'Bryan, nicknamed The Candy Man and The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an American killer who murdered his own eight-year-old son Timothy on Halloween 1974...
Jesse Pomeroy – 14 Year old Serial Killer
Jesse Harding Pomeroy was the youngest person ever convicted of ‘Murder in the First Degree’ in the history of Massachusetts, having been found guilty by a jury...
WWII Japan Crimes: The Liver Eaters
The atrocities committed by the Japanese Military during WWII are well-known. Torture and the killing of POWs was commonplace and violated all rules of modern warfare. One...
Karl Denke – The Cannibal of Ziebice
Born August 12th 1870 in Silesia in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Ziębice, Poland), not much of Karl Denke’s early life has been recorded aside from the...
