No one around him had any idea of his dark secret: from childhood, Helfried B. wanted to be a woman – and kill women. “At one point I just couldn’t help it,” he says: “I had to kill.”
There was a specific event. That was probably crucial to everything that would happen to me. I was about 13 years old at the time and happened to see a neighbor throwing old high heels into a garbage can. Somehow – I don’t know why – it stirred something in me. Anyway, I waited a while and in an unnoticed moment took the shoes out of the trash. In a strange way they represented a treasure to me. So I washed and cleaned them at home and then hid them in a box in my room. The thought of my secret excited me immensely. And every night I just waited for the moment when I was sure my parents and my siblings were fast asleep. And then I took the shoes out of their hiding place, put them on and went to bed with them on. The feelings I had were beautiful…”
It is June 12, 2002. An outwardly completely unremarkable man – 180 centimeters tall and 83 kilos heavy; short brown hair; Wearing a carefully ironed polo shirt and jeans, he sits in an interrogation room of the security office.
His name: Helfried B. Born from Styria, 38 years old, locksmith for the ÖBB, registered in a “railway worker garçonnière” in Vienna-Hütteldorf. And so far flawless. “Yes, it’s true,” he says in a calm voice, “I killed Elisabeth, and I’ll show you where she is now…”
Source: Krone
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