April 14, 2020
J. M. W. Turner's painting “Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge” was created in 1843. It measures 78.7 x 78.1 cm and was stolen in 1994 at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.
April 14, 2020
Rembrandt's painting “Jacob de Gheyn III” was created in 1632. It measures 24.9 x 29.9 cm and was stolen from the London Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1966.
April 12, 2020
Serhiy Tkach was a former police inspector from Ukraine who became a serial killer throughout his career. He admitted to having committed up to 100 murders of young girls.
April 14, 2020
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.
April 12, 2020
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
Peter Paul Rubens oil painting “The Three Graces” was created in 1635. It measures 182 x 220.5 cm and was stolen from the London Dulwich Picture Gallery in 1966.
April 14, 2020
Frans Van Mieri's painting “A Cavalier (Self-Portrait)” was created in 1659. It measures 20 x 16 cm and was stolen from the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney in 2007.
April 14, 2020
Rembrandt's painting “Self Portrait” was created in 1630. It measures 15 x 12.2 cm and was stolen from the National Museum in Stockholm in 2000.
April 9, 2020
Randy Steven Kraft is an American serial killer who mainly took young men on the freeway in the early 1970s and then killed them.
April 15, 2020
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 11, 2020
Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann was a German serial killer who was born in Hanover on October 25, 1879 and executed on April 15, 1925 with a guillotine.
April 9, 2020
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 11, 2020
Karl Großmann was born on December 13, 1863 in Neuruppin and died on July 5, 1922 in Berlin. The butcher of Berlin mostly invited young women to his house and killed them.
April 14, 2020
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
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
The California serial killer Edmund Kemper started his murder series at just 15 years old: he shot his grandmother and then stabbed her several times.
April 15, 2020
Camille Corot's painting “Le Chemin de Sèvres. View of Paris ”was created in 1865. It measures 49 x 34 cm and was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1998.
April 11, 2020
Carl Panzram (AKA: Jeff Rhoades, John O’Leary) was born on June 28, 1891 in Minnesota and executed on September 5, 1930 in Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Prison.
April 14, 2020
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 14, 2020
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 14, 2020
Van Gogh's painting “Poppy flowers” was painted in 1887. It measures 65 x 54 cm and was stolen from the Mohamed M. Khalil Museum in Cairo in 2010.
April 14, 2020
Carl Spitzweg's painting “The Poor Poet” was created in 1839. It measures 36.3 x 44.7 cm and was stolen in 1989 at Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.
April 13, 2020
Van Gogh's painting “The Gardener (Young Peasant)” was created in 1889. It measures 61 x 50 cm and was stolen from the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte in Rome in 1998.
April 13, 2020
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.