A retired woman from Salzburg (81) was killed with 28 stitches in August 2020. “Inspector DNA” unmasked the neighbor as a murder suspect, but he doesn’t even want to know the victim.
Prosecutor Elena Haslinger describes the brutal act of violence that took place in an apartment in a 96-unit apartment building on Gorianstrasse in Salzburg in late August 2020 as “overkill”. Eleonore A. (81) was killed with 28 stitches. The perpetrator was on her knees when he stabbed the woman, the prosecutor said at the beginning of the trial in the Salzburg court on Monday: “The victim was fighting for his life.”
According to the defendant, DNA traces would have been “smuggled in”.
Just days later, an acquaintance found the reclusive woman’s body – wrapped in eight meters of ribbon. “The apartment was carefully cleaned. The perpetrator must have spent hours on it,” emphasizes Haslinger. Criminals were still able to secure DNA evidence. Only a massive swab from 37 residents of the apartment building led to the suspect, a retired and old neighbor of the victim, for a year. after the crime.
“I have nothing to do with the murder. I am innocent,” says the installer, who lives alone. He claims neither to have known the elderly woman nor to have had any contact with her – he claims that he has never even been to her apartment. But: 14 DNA traces at the crime scene and even under the victim’s fingernails are “with very high probability” from him. His statement: The genetic material had been “smuggled in.” Presumably over gloves he’d thrown away in the stairwell days earlier. He had also put the stuff the body was in there.
The trial continues tomorrow, Tuesday.
Source: Krone
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