The mystery surrounding the time of death of amok hunter Roland Drexler creates uncertainty. Salzburg’s forensic medicine department has not completed the post-mortem examinations, but is continuing the investigation. Now a new detail has emerged: maggots have been found on the 56-year-old’s body.
“I’m actually only interested in one thing – when did Drexler actually die” – even in legal circles there is currently hardly any other topic than the (yet) unrevealed “secrets” in the case of the Mühlviertler double murderer Roland Drexler (56) from Altenfelden.
You must accept open questions
The Linz public prosecutor’s office has not yet received a written report from the police, but for the investigators the case is “closed”. “The ball is now in the prosecutor’s court,” said Gottfried Mitterlehner, head of the Upper Austrian Criminal Police.
There are currently no further investigation orders and it must be accepted that some questions may remain unanswered. “We do not participate in speculation,” says the lead researcher. According to the Linz Public Prosecutor’s Office, the time of death could not be determined – a statement that caused great excitement and incomprehension among the population.
This is what the head of the forensic medicine department says
The “Krone” contacted University Professor Fabio Monticelli, head of the Salzburg Department of Forensic Medicine, who is also responsible for Upper Austria. “There was a communication problem. We cannot say that with certainty at this time. In such cases, the first question is which method is used. Next, we need to collect the weather data and compare it with the environmental conditions on site. Normally there is always a certain ‘error’ that must be found first. These are complex investigations that take time.”
Maggots were found on the body
But is the time of death now determined, or not? Monticelli answers: “The time of death can never be determined, only the period of death. That is our mandate from the authority. If the question had been whether the body had been there for two or six days, we could have given an answer. But in a case like this you have to be precise.”
However, it has since been leaked that maggots were found on the body. Some fly species lay their eggs in the tissue one to two hours after death. A few days later the maggots hatch.
Unfortunately, it is an Austrian tradition that can easily be described as a bad habit: in major criminal events, the authorities never put all the cards on the table. The worst example was the Kampusch case, where the authorities’ silence gave rise to the wildest rumors that crazy conspiracy theorists wanted to make the victim an accomplice.
This time too, questions remain unanswered. Succinctly stating that the case is closed because the murderer is dead is not particularly helpful to the police. Citizens have the right to be fully informed about what actually happened!
Source: Krone
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