Arno Funke, alias Dagobert, is a reformed German extortionist, now an author.
Maria Rosalia Auguste Nitribitt, better known as Rosemarie Nitribitt, was a German luxury call girl whose violent death caused a scandal in the Germany of the Wirtschaftswunder years. The case gave rise to a novel, three movies and a musical.
Norbert Hans Poehlke, The Hammer-Killer, was a German police officer (1971–1985) who after he committed suicide in 1985 was found to have committed several bank robberies and related murders. He was tagged as the "Hammer-Killer" for his modus operandi of killing drivers of cars and using a sledgehammer in later bank robberies in which he would use his victims' cars as getaway vehicles.
Ernst August Ferdinand Gennat was director of the Berlin criminal police. He worked under three political systems in his 30 year career as one of the most gifted and successful criminologists in the German Reich. Among other things, he worked on the cases of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kürten.
Walter Andreas Schwarz was a German singer, songwriter, novelist, Kabarettist, author of radio dramas and translator.
Gesina ("Gesche") Margarethe Gottfried, was a German serial killer who murdered 15 people by arsenic poisoning in Bremen and Hanover, Germany, between 1813 and 1827. She was the last person to be publicly executed in the city of Bremen.
Walter Sedlmayr was a popular German stage, television, and film actor from Bavaria. His murder in 1990 was widely publicized.
The murder of Jakob von Metzler was a German murder case. In 2002 11-year old Jakob von Metzler was kidnapped and murdered by the law student Magnus Gäfgen in Frankfurt. The following year, Gäfgen was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Vera Brühne became famous throughout Germany as a victim of miscarriage of justice. In 1961/62, she was convicted, together with Johann Ferbach, of having murdered the physician Otto Praun and his lover. Ulrich Sonnemann considered the case as a new Dreyfus affair. In 1979, she was pardoned by Bavarian governor Franz Josef Strauss.
Ronny Rieken is a German child murderer. In 1996 and 1998, he killed two girls in the area surrounding Cloppenburg, northern Germany. Rieken was the first German criminal to be caught as a result of mass DNA screening. In 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is serving at Justizvollzugsanstalt Celle.
Hans Erwin Hagedorn was an East German serial killer who murdered three young boys from 1969 until 1971.
Olaf Däter is a German spree killer who has been dubbed as Oma-Mörder ("Granny-Killer") by the media.
Heinrich Max Pommerenke was a German serial killer. Detained since 1959, he was the longest-serving prisoner in Germany at the time of his death.
Criminal: UK is a British police procedural anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall and Shubham Saraf as the highly-trained members of a special interrogative division of the British Metropolitan Police. Netflix released the first season of three episodes on 20 September 2019 and a second season of four episodes on 16 September 2020.
Criminal: France is a 2019 French-language police procedural anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith and starring Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier and Sara Giraudeau. Criminal: France is part of Netflix's Criminal, an anthology series consisting of twelve episodes, with three episodes set in each of four countries, filmed in local languages – France, Spain, Germany and the UK.
Criminal: Germany is a 2019 German-language police procedural anthology series created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, and starring Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth and Florence Kasumba. Criminal: Germany is part of Netflix's Criminal, an anthology series consisting of twelve episodes with three episodes each set across four countries filmed in local languages – France, Spain, Germany and the UK.
Jürgen Kesting is a German journalist, music critic and author.
Arwed Erich Imiela, known as The Bluebeard of Fehmarn, was a German serial killer who killed four women for monetary purposes in Fehmarn from 1968 to 1969. While he insisted on his innocence, Imiela would later be convicted of all the killings and sentenced to life imprisonment, dying in prison in 1982.
Manfred Böckl is a German writer who specialises in historical fiction. Since the 1980s, he has written novels that often revolve around Bavaria, crime, abuse of power and historical renegades and seers. He had a local breakthrough in 1991 with a novel about the Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl. A recurring subject in Böckl's works is Celtic culture and he practices Celtic neopaganism.
