April 15, 2020

playing card D4: Goya: Portrait of the Duke of Wellington (1814)

Goya's painting “Portrait of the Duke of Wellington” was completed in 1814. It measures 52.4 x 64.3 cm and was stolen from the National Gallery in London in 1961.
April 14, 2020

playing card F4: Edgar Degas: Portrait of Count Lepic and his daughters (1870)

Edgar Dega's painting “Portrait of Count Lepic and his daughters” was created in 1870. It measures 81 x 65 cm and was stolen from the Zurich E. G.Bührle Foundation in 2008.
April 9, 2020

playing card B2: Pedro Alonso López (* 1948 – today)

Pedro Alonso Lopez is a Colombian serial killer who raped and killed up to 300 girls in South America. He was called the monster by the Andes after leading the police to a mass grave of 53 girls in 1980.
April 11, 2020

playing card G1: Yang Xinhai (* 1968 – † 2004) monsterkiller

Yang Xinhai was born on July 29, 1968. As the son of a poor farming family, he was introverted and tenderly strung as the youngest child. At school he had to provide himself with food, which was always a challenge without money. When he was 17, he dropped out of school to join migrant workers.
April 9, 2020

playing card E2: Patrick Kearney (* 1939 – today)

Patrick Kearney is an American necrophile serial killer who has at least 43 people on his conscience. Kearney's profile-less murder scheme, which is found in most serial killers, made it difficult for the police to catch him.
April 9, 2020

playing card F2: Joachim Kroll (* 1933 – † 1991)

Joachim Kroll was a German cannibal and serial killer. He was convicted of eight murders despite admitting fourteen murders. Kroll started his series of murders in 1955 after his mother died. He worked as a toilet man for Mannesmann, later for Thyssen-Krupp.
April 9, 2020

playing card A1: Jeffrey Dahmer (* 1960 – † 1994)

One of the most popular serial killers in post-war history was Jeffrey Dahmer. Born the eldest son of Joyce Annett and Lionel Herbert Dahmer, he started his first murder at the age of 18. In the summer of 1978, his parents' house was available to him alone. One day he brought hitchhiker Stephen Hicks home for a beer.
April 11, 2020

playing card G4: Moses Sithole (* 1964 – today)

Moses Sithole is a South African serial killer. He committed the ABC murder series, named after his crime scenes Atteridgeville, then Boksburg and finally Cleveland, a suburb of Johannesburg. In some cases, he called the victims' relatives to mock them.
April 13, 2020

playing card A3: Caravaggio: Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence

Caravaggio's painting “Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence” was created in 1609. It measures 268 x 197 cm and was stolen in Palermo in 1969. Since then it has been considered lost.
April 9, 2020

playing card B1: Luis Garavito (* 1957 – today)

Luis Garavito is a rapist and serial killer from Colombia. He was born on January 25, 1957. At the age of 35, he started talking to small children, luring them away, and then raping and killing them. He remained undetected for seven years.
April 14, 2020

playing card E2: Caspar David Friedrich: Nebelschwaden (1820)

Caspar David Friedrich's painting “Nebelschwaden” was completed in 1820. It measures 42.5 cm x 32.5 cm and was stolen in 1994 at the Frankfurter Kunsthalle Schirn.
April 14, 2020

playing card H2: Van Gogh: Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (1884)

Van Gogh's painting “Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen” was created in 1884. It measures 41.3 x 32.1 cm and was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002.