Euro Noir

Euro Noir Podcast
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Euro Noir digs into Europe's most chilling true crime cases, the ones that never made headlines outside their own borders. Each episode is a long-form deep dive into obscure, unsolved, or wrongly-resolved cases across the continent, from Finnish forests to Spanish coastlines. Expect meticulous research, cited sources, and stories that go far beyond the Wikipedia summary. If you think you know European crime, think again.

Episodes

  1. 4d ago

    The Crazy Brabant Killers

    The Brabant Killers: Belgium’s Unsolved Supermarket Massacres Between 1982 and 1985, a gang of masked gunmen terrorised Belgium. They hit supermarkets, restaurants and petrol stations across Brabant and Wallonia, and they killed 28 people. They often stole very little, sometimes just a till’s worth of cash. At Nivelles they stopped to load tea, coffee and cooking oil into their car while a gendarme lay dead nearby. On 9 November 1985, at a Delhaize in Aalst, they shot eight people dead, including a nine-year-old girl in the car park, and walked away unhurried. Forty years on, nobody has been convicted. In this episode of Euro Noir, we follow the Bende van Nijvel from the first burglaries to the last killings. We look at the innocent men wrongly charged while the real killers were still at large, the forensic evidence that vanished, and the ballistics report that was buried. We meet the suspects: Madani Bouhouche, a former gendarme and gun dealer, and Christiaan Bonkoffsky, whose deathbed confession in 2017 was later ruled out by DNA evidence. Then we go into the darker theories. Was this the work of career criminals? Or did it have something to do with Westland New Post, a small far-right paramilitary group, and the secret NATO “stay-behind” armies of Operation Gladio? We weigh what the 1990s parliamentary inquiry found, what former insiders have claimed, and why so many victims’ families still believe the truth was kept from them. And we hear from the families themselves, who were told in June 2024 that the investigation was over, only to find it quietly reopened months later. If you enjoy slow, careful, unsettling true crime from across Europe, you’re in the right place. Got an idea for a case, a theme or a future show? Listeners can get in touch at euronoirpodcast@proton.me. I’d love to hear from you.

  2. Oct 29

    The Beast of Aubing: Johann Eichhorn and the Shadows of Munich

    For almost a decade, women on the western edge of Munich knew better than to walk home alone after dark. A man was waiting in the fields and lanes around Aubing. He attacked at least 90 women between 1931 and 1939, and killed at least five of them. When he was finally caught in January 1939, he turned out to be a local man, a former neighbour and a member of the Nazi Party. His trial was kept quiet; he was guillotined at Stadelheim Prison that December, and the case slipped out of public view for decades. This week on Euro Noir, we go beyond the headline to uncover how Johann Eichhorn was able to hunt for so long. We look at the police investigation, the fear in the surrounding villages and the regime that preferred silence to scandal. Above all, we remember the women whose names were nearly lost. Content warning: this episode contains detailed discussion of sexual violence and murder. Listener discretion is advised. New to Euro Noir? Each episode explores a European crime that deserves more attention than it has received. Follow the show so you never miss a case. Show notes: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-beast-of.html

  3. Oct 23

    "The Perfect Crime" - The Lisbon Ripper

    Between July 1992 and March 1993, three women were found dead on the northern fringes of Lisbon. Each had been strangled and cut open, and organs had been removed. The scenes held no fingerprints, no hair, no footprints and no blood but the victims’ own. The coroner called it the perfect crime. Maria Valentina, Maria Fernanda and Maria João worked the roads around half-built suburbs, abandoned builders’ huts and railway sidings. They knew what was hunting them. They kept working anyway, because rent doesn’t wait for a manhunt. The FBI flew in with a theory linking the murders to a string of killings in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Then the killings stopped, and the case went cold. Nineteen years later, a young man auditioned for a Portuguese reality show with a secret: “I know who the Lisbon Ripper is.” It was his own father. A confession followed, and then a single palm print on a milk carton changed everything. This week on Euro Noir: the women behind the nickname, the killer who left nothing behind, and the confession that fell apart. Contains graphic descriptions of violence. Show Notes: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-lisbon.html Contact us at euronoirpodcast@proton.me

  4. Oct 15

    The Sweetest Woman in Correggio - The Leonarda Cianciulli Case

    Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, dismemberment and the disposal of bodies. Correggio, northern Italy, 1939. Faustina Setti climbs three flights of stairs to say goodbye to a friend. She has sold her belongings and told nobody where she is going, because the friend has found her a husband in a distant city. She never arrives. Over the next year, two more women follow her up those stairs: a teacher chasing a new job, and a retired opera singer hoping for a second act. All three vanish. The woman behind it is Leonarda Cianciulli, a small, well-liked shopkeeper and fortune teller, famous across Italy as the Soap Maker of Correggio. By her own account, she killed them to buy her eldest son’s life. She said human sacrifice would keep him safe from the war, and that she dissolved the bodies in caustic soda, made soap from one of them and baked the blood of the others into tea cakes for her visitors. Show Notes and Sources: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-sweetest.html

  5. Oct 8

    The Family Medicine: Violette Nozière and the Crime That Split Paris

    In Paris in 1933, an eighteen-year-old girl fed her parents a lethal dose of sleeping powder, told them it was medicine from their doctor, and went dancing. Her father died. Her mother survived by spitting half of it out. What followed was a manhunt, a trial that gripped a nation, and an accusation so shocking the newspapers of the day refused to print the word for it. The surrealists rushed a book of poems to her defence. Three heads of state would eventually pardon her. Nobody has ever proven whether she was telling the truth. This is the case of Violette Nozière: a story about class, family, and who gets believed. Show Notes: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-family.html Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61594730272727 and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/euronoirpodcast

  6. Oct 1

    The Carnival Killing: Who Murdered Stine Geisler?

    Copenhagen, Whitsun 1990. While thousands celebrate at the city's annual carnival, eighteen-year-old Stine Geisler cycles home through streets she's known her whole life, and never arrives. The next evening, her body is found in a basement eighty metres from her front door: bound, gagged, and marked in ways investigators still can't fully explain. Thirty-five officers. Nearly 4,000 interviews. A city gripped by fear as a cluster of unsolved murders unfolds around her in the same few months. And yet, over three decades on, no one has ever been charged. In this episode of Euro Noir, we trace Stine's life and final night, the strange details left at the crime scene, the parade of suspects who've circled the case for a generation, and the convicted killer whose name keeps resurfacing: the Amager Man. We weigh the evidence, flag the speculation as speculation, and ask why one of Denmark's most haunting cold cases has never been laid to rest. Show notes and sources: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/10/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-who-killed.html Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61594730272727 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/euronoirpodcast

  7. Sep 24

    The Road to Coolor: The Alcàsser Girls

    On a Friday night in November 1992, three schoolgirls from a small town outside Valencia hitchhiked to a nightclub — and vanished. Seventy-five days later, two beekeepers found what was left of them in a ravine near the Tous dam. Euro Noir tells the story of the Alcàsser Girls: a brutal crime, a fugitive who may have drowned off the Irish coast — or simply walked away, a trial that never fully closed, and the television broadcast that changed Spanish media forever. Link to show notes and sources: https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/posts/5350544481597095200 Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/euronoirpodcast and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Euro-Noir-Podcast/61594730272727/

  8. Sep 18

    The Sons of Privilege: The Ludwig Murders

    The Boys Who Signed Their Murders: The Ludwig Killings of Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan In a packed Italian disco on a carnival night in 1984, two young men in fancy dress try to set fire to four hundred people. It isn't their first attempt. For almost seven years, a wave of stabbings, hammer attacks and arson fires has torn through the Veneto, each one followed by a chilling typed note signed with a single name: Ludwig. This week, Euro Noir travels to Verona to uncover the story of Wolfgang Abel and Marco Furlan, two clever, privileged, university-educated friends who convinced themselves they had the right to "cleanse" the world, and very nearly got away with it. We trace the killings from a burning car in 1977 through to their capture, their trial, an extraordinary prison escape to Crete, and the pair's quiet release decades later. And we ask the question Italian prosecutors are still asking today, more than forty years on: were Abel and Furlan really working alone? Factual, sourced and told in full. New episode out now. See the show notes here: https://euronoir.blogspot.com/2026/09/euro-noir-podcast-show-notes-sons-of.html Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/euronoirpodcast and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Euro-Noir-Podcast/61594730272727/

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Euro Noir digs into Europe's most chilling true crime cases, the ones that never made headlines outside their own borders. Each episode is a long-form deep dive into obscure, unsolved, or wrongly-resolved cases across the continent, from Finnish forests to Spanish coastlines. Expect meticulous research, cited sources, and stories that go far beyond the Wikipedia summary. If you think you know European crime, think again.

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  • Creator
    Euro Noir Podcast
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    8
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    Explicit
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