Volker Eckert was one of the most active and sadistic serial killers in Europe. Born behind the Iron Curtain, he later used his newfound freedom to travel as a truck driver, leaving a trail of corpses in France, Spain and Italy.
When a Polish detective decides to re-examine an unsolved murder cases in his town, he stumbles upon a novel of a writer named Krystian Bala that seems to explain it all.
Neil Entwistle, Rachel Souza and their nine-month-old baby Lillian Rose, seemed like the ideal family. In 2006, Rachel was found at her home near Boston with Lillian in her arms, both shot dead.
The successful banker Rob Kissel and and his wife Nancy appeared to be living a perfect life in Hong Kong. But their broken marriage ended when she murdered Rob and beat him to death.
In 2007, Meredith Kercher was brutally stabbed to death in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede have been arrested, charged and convicted in one of the most sensational and controversial trials of the century.
In 1986, Carlo Mazza, a wealthy entrepreneur in Parma, Italy, was found dead in his car. Catherine Miroslava, a nightclub dancer and Carlo's lover, was the prime suspect.
Spanish serial killer Manuel Delgado Villegas was caught, in 1971, and confessed the murder of his girlfriend. Later the awful truth came out: he killed at least eight and possibly over 40 people in Spain, France and Italy.
Michel Peiry is the most notorious Swiss serial killer of the post-war period. In 1981, Peiry was 22 and traveled to the US where he met a young Canadian who disappeared without a trace.
Peter Lundin strangled his mother. In 1992 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder. In 1999 Lundin was released and deported to Denmark. Less than a year later, his girlfriend and their two sons were gone.
