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 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 13, 2020

playing card H1: Van Gogh: Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather

Van Gogh's painting “Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather” was created in 1882. It measures 34.5 x 51 cm and was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2002.
April 12, 2020

playing card H1: Earle Nelson (* 1897 – † 1928)

Serial killer Earle Leonard Nelson was born on May 12, 1897 and was hanged in Winnipeg on January 13, 1928. He escaped from Napa State Hospital several times. After his last escape, he began his series of murders in 1926.
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 11, 2020

playing card C3: Andrej Chikatilo (* 1936 – † 1994)

Andrej Romanovich Chikatilo is a serial killer from Ukraine. He started his first murder at the age of 41 and committed at least 53 murders of young women and children. The search for this murderer was one of the largest in Russian crime history.
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 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.
April 11, 2020

playing card A2: Ted Bundy (* 1946 – † 1989)

Theodore "Ted" Robert Bundy killed at least 28 young women between the age of 18 and his final arrest in 1978. Ted Bundy was found to have murdered 28 women, but at least 36 victims are suspected.
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 11, 2020

playing card C4: Anatoly Onoprienko (* 1959 – † 2013)

Anatoly Onoprienko was a 52-time serial killer from Ukraine. He started his murder series at the age of 19. Most of the time he went to abandoned houses and killed the whole family.
April 12, 2020

playing card H3: Hermann Mudgett (* 1861 – † 1896)

Henry Howard Holmes's real name Herman Webster Mudgett was born on May 16, 1860 and was executed on May 7, 1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The exact number of its victims is not known, it is assumed that up to 200 victims.