After two days of trial, the jury of the regional court in Salzburg decided unanimously late in the afternoon on Tuesday: conviction of murder! The accused Salzburger (62) has to go to prison for 20 years. Because he allegedly brutally murdered an elderly woman (81) with 28 stitches. The verdict is not final.
“The woman was a pearl, a true love. She wouldn’t even step on an ant,” the caretaker described the murder victim, Eleonore A., Tuesday on the second day of the trial in the regional court. The witness and her husband have been looking after the 96-party apartment building on Gorianstrasse for years: the victim lived there, withdrawn and alone. And there in a 35 square meter apartment, the 81-year-old was killed with 28 stab wounds. “She was also suspicious, wary and totally scared,” said an acquaintance.
As reported, “Inspector DNA” exposed the then-neighbor (62) months later as a suspected murderer. Before the presiding judge Günther Nocker, the retired employee denied the murder charge: “I had zero contact” with the victim, emphasized the man, who was also withdrawn and lived alone.
“He’s been weird for the past two years and has changed,” the janitor says, speaking of the suspect’s complaints about filth in the stairwell. “He counted the stains in the stairwell.” Experimental observers noted that disorder could “excite him insane.”
Judgment is not final
The day before, prosecutor Elena Haslinger had emphasized, “The perpetrator meticulously cleaned the crime scene.” Nevertheless: Officials found 14 DNA traces of the 62-year-old at the crime scene and even under the victim’s fingernails. The defendant said his genetic material had been smuggled in by someone else wearing gloves. And he even criticized the coroner’s DNA expert. The possible motive: a total mystery. Nevertheless, all eight jurors found a murder and voted guilty. The accused must serve 20 years – not legally binding.
Source: Krone
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