Title: Satan came to Eden
Description: Darwin meets Hitchcock in this true-crime tale of paradise found and lost. A extraordinary portrait of a 1930s murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a Berlin doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the island's 'Adam and Eve,' others flock there, including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson.
Subjects: Murder, Case studies
Places: Floreana Island, Galapagos Islands, Santa María Island, Santa María Island (Galapagos Islands)
People: Elvira Wagner Bousquet baroness, Friedrich Ritter (1886-1934)