A US citizen has been convicted of murder, attempted murder, and rape in an attack on two American women at Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and sentenced to life in prison. German law prevents authorities from identifying perpetrators and victims in such cases, but family and friends identified the victims as 21-year-old Eva Liu, …
A German man is on trial for the brutal murder of his 100-year-old grandmother in the German city of Hamburg, where a jury heard how he decapitated her as she tried to defend herself from her wheelchair. Artur B (the German legal system does not identified victims and suspects except by first name and last …
A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman has been charged with killing a doppelganger she found on Instagram in order to fake her own death. Khadidja O’s body was found in August, covered in blood in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, Bavarian prosecutors say, but the body was initially identified by family members as 23-year-old Sharaban K, 23-year-old …
A 72-year-old patient at a German hospital was arrested Tuesday night after she allegedly turned off her roommate’s ventilator because she didn’t like the sound it made. Authorities in the southwestern city of Mannheim said she turned off the 79-year-old woman’s ventilator twice, even after hospital staff told her it was necessary for the patient, …
A nurse who’s already serving a life sentence for two murders is now accused of killing at least 100 patients at two German hospitals he worked at. Though Evil Niels Hoegel, 41, was jailed in February 2015 for killing two intensive care patients, BBC reported that prosecutors believe he murdered 38 patients in Oldenburg and 62 patients in …
The Iowa mother who left her four young children home alone while she took an 11-day European vacation pleaded not guilty in court last week. Erin Macke, 30, was charged with four counts of child endangerment and one count of transferring a firearm to a person under 21. She pleaded not guilty in a written …
