Austrian Man Slaughters His Family With An Axe
What the hell is it with Austria???
First the sick bastard father that locks his daughter in the basement and has children with her …
Now this?
Note: If/When traveling to Austria … do NOT drink the water.
Austrian Kills Entire Family With Axe
VIENNA: An Austrian man has confessed to hacking his wife, daughter, parents and father-in-law to death with an axe because he had money problems, police said.
The 39-year-old man, identified only as Reinhard S. by police at a news conference in Vienne, turned himself in overnight, saying: “The bodies of my dead wife and child are lying in my flat.”
When police entered the suspect’s flat in the well-to-do area of Hietzing in Vienna, they found the body of his 42-year-old wife, Barbara, in the bathroom, and his seven-year-old daughter Natalie, in a walk-in closet. Their bodies were partially covered with sheets.
The killing spree did not stop there, however, and Reinhard S. then drove to Ansfelden, 180km west of Vienna, where he first axed to death his 69-year-old mother, Gabriela, and then his 72-year-old father, Engelbert.
Finally, the suspect drove a few kilometres north to the city of Linz, where he murdered his 80-year-old father in law, Heinrich R., investigator Thomas Stecher told the news conference.
The gruesome case comes as Austria is still grappling with another horrific crime that came to light two weeks ago when it was revealed that 73-year-old Josef Fritzl had held his daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and forcing her to bear seven children from that abuse.
After committing the murders, Reinhard S. “drove around a bit”. And when he unsuccessfully tried to hang himself, he decided to hand himself over to police at around 3:00am.
Police found the axe in a rucksack behind the backseat of his car.
As a motive, Reinhard S. said he had lost a great deal of money in an investment that went sour and wanted to spare his family the shame.
He claimed to have borrowed the six-figure sum from a relative.
Police found notes in which Reinhard S. apologised for his actions next to the bodies of his parents and his father-in-law, but no such letters were found next to his wife and daughter, Stecher said.
The suspect, who gave his profession as a freelance public relations consultant and whose wife had worked in the Austrian Finance Ministry in Vienna, was described as “calm” and “composed”, showing no emotion in initially questioning.
Criminologists were still examining the flat in Hietzing in an attempt to reconstruct the time of the murders, with the first two believed to have taken place at around 7:30am and the others at around 7:00pm on Tuesday.
Reinhard S. was under constant surveillance in custody to prevent any further suicide attempt.
(AFP)
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May 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pmHow about…”must have been a gun free zone”
May 14th, 2008 at 10:39 pmBizarre, that men, when they loose their mind, or are desesperate, want to destroy their whole family ; is there a correlation with the male status in general : no meens—> no possible life for the clan
one ought to search if these kinds of of death madness occur amid the male animal gente .
Yeah, the lion is said to eat its young kids, but it to fuck mother lion, that will accept it again
May 15th, 2008 at 3:04 amIf he was a stinkin muslim wacking his family there would be “no problemo” ( a little mexican lingo) -
May 15th, 2008 at 4:09 amIt’s a cultural thing don’t you know, that we in the west wouldn’t understand.
What’s with Austria these days. Sumthin in the water?
May 15th, 2008 at 4:31 am