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Detectives Zeiler and Oberländer are called to a murder scene on the shore of Lake Constance. The victim was a mermaid. Sybille Baumgartner, wife of a famous local vintner, was found stabbed to death in shallow water wearing a costume rubber mermaid tail. She was a member of a local kitesurfing club. Meanwhile, Matteo, another member of the ...
Constance Margaret Fisher (née Sirois; March 26, 1929 – October 1, 1973) was an American serial killer. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia , she killed three of her children in rural Maine in 1954, and after spending several years in a mental institution, she was released, only to kill three more of her children in 1966.
The Lake Constance trout (Salmo trutta) was almost extinct in the 1980s due to pollution, but thanks to protective measures they have made a significant return. Lake Constance is the home of the critically endangered species of trout Salvelinus profundus, [79] and formerly also the now extinct Lake Constance whitefish (Coregonus gutturosus). [80]
Gary Ridgway was born on February 18, 1949, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the second of Mary and Thomas Ridgway's three sons.His home life was somewhat troubled; relatives have described his mother as domineering and have said that, while young, he witnessed more than one violent argument between his parents.
On 1 July 2002, BAL Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154 passenger jet, and DHL International Aviation ME Flight 611, a Boeing 757 cargo jet, collided in mid-air over Überlingen, a southern German town on Lake Constance, near the German-Swiss border. All of the passengers and crew aboard both planes were killed, resulting in a ...
James Doyle Snr's 51-year-old wife and two other sons were there too but escaped. The murders were regarded as part of the Glasgow ice cream wars because Andrew legitimately sold ice creams from a van and there were people who sought to take over businesses such as his to use them as fronts for criminal activities. Two men were incarcerated for ...
Drath was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, on February 8, 1920. [1] She is reported to have learned English from vacations and boarding school in Scotland. In 1946, during her time working in Munich, Drath met U.S. Army Lt. Col. Francis S. Drath while visiting Lake Constance in Switzerland; he was, at the time, the deputy military governor of Bavaria. [1]
Susan Leigh Smith (née Vaughan; born September 26, 1971) is an American woman who was convicted of murdering her two sons, three-year-old Michael and one-year-old Alexander, in 1994 by strapping her children in their car seats, and rolling her car containing her two children into John D. Long Lake in South Carolina.