Murder of Samantha – raped to death: “Sexually sadistic act”

On the night of June 18 to 19, Samantha was brutally murdered. Two men who were no strangers to the young woman are charged with this by the Vienna Regional Court. After a fairly liquid night, the Viennese allegedly raped the 20-year-old and injured her with objects such that Samantha bled to death.

First suspect shrugs off all blame
A bloody act that the second suspect confessed to at the beginning of the trial. He couldn’t tell Judge Andreas Böhm why he had treated Samantha so cruelly. The younger prime suspect claims to have had nothing to do with the rape and murder. He would only have seen how his older friend abused the woman in his apartment in Vienna-Floridsdorf. And then suddenly there was a lot of blood. He fell asleep, woke up and she was already dead.

Reports on Samantha’s death shock
A version that the experts do not seem to support on the second day of the trial. One by one, they present their opinions and get horrible – almost disgusted – looks from the jury. Because of the brutality of the crime.

“It’s not a pretty face. This isn’t a good thing either. This is a catastrophic case,” coroner Nikolaus Klupp begins the list of Samantha’s injuries. One of them is the victim’s broken nose. The exact cause of death is not certain: ” The massive blood loss and massive air embolism alone were enough to kill him,” the coroner noted.

The latter even shocked the appraiser: “I’ve been doing this job for a long time. I’ve never seen such a serious air embolism.’ Within about ten minutes, Samantha would have succumbed to her injuries. Injuries consistent with the second defendant’s confession.

DNA traces in particular weigh heavily on the 26-year-old
The gynecological experts and the DNA report also support the accusation and weigh heavily on the 26-year-old who did not confess. Traces of both him and the elder were found on the victim. Just like Samantha’s DNA on both men. Clear traces according to the appraiser, although massive cleaning measures must have been carried out.

The suspect called for rescue for himself but not for the bleeding victim
It wasn’t until the morning of June 19 that the 26-year-old prime suspect, defended by attorney Astrid Wagner, notified the rescue team. After calling 911 for himself that night: In his panic, he ran out of the apartment and got a splinter. He needed a doctor for his bleeding foot. He didn’t say a word about Samantha dying in his apartment.

It wasn’t until the second emergency call that he told emergency services that a friend of his had fallen in the shower – recorded in a voice message of the call. The paramedic wants to know if she is injured: “I don’t know. I don’t know. I’m not a doctor,” the younger defendant replied. “Is she breathing?”, the next question. “Yes” – “I don’t know ” – “Most likely not,” said the 26-year-old hesitantly.

That’s not all with terrible voice messages: He sent audio to a friend, where he was vocally outraged by the chaos in his apartment. “Herst Oida, my whole apartment is covered in blood. My whole bed is covered in blood, Oida. My coffee table is covered in blood. My floor is covered in blood. My sound bar is covered in blood, Oida” – he never mentioned the dead Samantha in the bathroom.

According to the expert, Samantha was tortured
“He was clearly able to put on an act,” psychiatrist Peter Hofmann says of the calls and recordings. Both defendants suffer from a combined personality disorder. What they still have in common: “They both come from the margins of society.” While the older person was the most dominant part in the interpersonal relationship, the 26-year-old would be more restrained. Also because of his serious neurological condition that would limit his movements.

But that wouldn’t have stopped him from committing the alleged crime against Samantha. According to Hofmann, a “sexually sadistic act” with torture-like methods: “There is torture for themselves. There are certain types of perpetrators who use torture to achieve inner satisfaction for themselves. This is a very, very special group of perpetrators” – in which the two suspects Despite the mental health of both, he recommends admission to a forensic therapeutic center because of the danger.

The verdict is expected in the afternoon.