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 12, 2020

playing card H4: Joseph Vacher (* 1869 – † 1898)

The French serial killer Joseph Vacher lived from 1868 to 1898. The police assume that he had at least 11 people on his conscience. Vacher's victims were mostly young agricultural workers. It didn't matter whether they were female or male.
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 14, 2020

playing card G3: Camille Pissarro: Bords de la Seine à Bougival (1871)

Camille Pissarro's painting “Bords de la Seine à Bougival” was created in 1871. It measures 40 x 27 cm and was stolen from the Noortman Gallery in Maastricht in 1987.
April 9, 2020

playing card C1: Alexander Pichushkin (* 1974 – today)

Alexander Pichushkin is a Russian serial killer from Moscow. In 1992 the then 18-year-old student began planning the so-called checkerboard murders together with his friend and classmate Mikhail Odiichuk.
April 9, 2020

playing card E1: Donald Henry Gaskins (* 1933 – † 1991)

Donald Henry Gaskins alias Pee Wee was often raped by men in his youth. When Gaskins was raped again by a fellow inmate at the age of 20, he cut his throat - his first victim.
April 9, 2020

playing card B4: Juan Corona (* 1934 – † 2019)

Mexican-born Juan Corona employed seasonal workers on a California farm in the 1970s. He also gave them a place to sleep on the site where 25 bodies were later discovered. He was sentenced to 25 life sentences with no prospect of pardon.
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 D2: Jan Vermeer: Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (1671)

Jan Vermeer's painting “Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid” was created in 1671. It measures 58.4 x 72.2 cm and was stolen from Russborough House in 1990 in Ireland.
April 9, 2020

Spielkarte A4: Gary Ridgway (* 1949 – today)

American serial killer Gary Ridgway has been convicted of 48 murders. However, he stood twice as many. He murdered countless women and girls in Washington State. Most of the victims were prostitutes.
April 14, 2020

playing card A1: Da Vinci: Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) 1506

The Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) is probably the most famous work of art in the world. The oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci has the dimensions 77cm x 53cm and was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911.
April 12, 2020

playing card A3: John Wayne Gacy (* 1942 – † 1994)

"Kiss my ass.": Those were the last words of serial killer John Wayne Gacy. He was sentenced to death twelve times for 33 murders of young men and children - world record. The actual number of murder victims was taken to his grave by one of the most notorious serial killers of all time. He died from a lethal injection on May 10, 1994 at the Stateville Correction Center.
April 14, 2020

playing card F1: Gainsborough: Portrait Lady Cavendish (1787)

Thomas Gainsborough's painting “Portrait of Lady Georgiana Cavendish” was created in 1787. It measures 127 x 101.5 cm and was stolen from the Agnew`s Gallery in London in 1876.
April 14, 2020

playing card C1: Govaert Flinck: Landscape with an Obelisk (1638)

Govaert Flinck's painting “Landscape with an Obelisk” was created in 1638. It measures 71 x 54.5 cm and was stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Gallery Museum in Boston in 1990.