They had to find their ‘master’ – in the search for the suspected double murderer Roland Drexler (56) from Altenfelden, the police also took unusual paths. As has now emerged from a (preliminary) final assessment of one of the largest police operations in the Republic, the executive had attempted to use the two hunting dogs of the amok hunter.
After Drexler’s car was found on a forest path in a forest between Altenfelden and Arnreit on Friday, the two detectives were sent out. The dogs were followed by a drone. The unusual search almost worked: but the dogs were stopped by the topography about two hundred meters from where the body was later found. In the steeply sloping terrain, the search teams simply could not make any progress.
The body was half a mile from Caddy
When officers from the Rapid Intervention Group (SIG) and Cobra finally ventured into the forest on Saturday, their bodies were found 800 meters from the perpetrator’s VW Caddy. The six-day siege of the Upper Mühlviertel was history.
The rumor mill is spinning
But since then the rumors have grown like ivy: it is still unclear how long Drexler has been dead. In any case, the Upper Austrian police are now certain that the VW Caddy was not in the forest on Tuesday. This is evident from internal research.
Officials who searched everything there on Tuesday swear to God that the Caddy was not there at the time. Someone else may have parked the perpetrator’s car in the woods later. However, the VW Caddy is more than ten years old and it is therefore questionable whether the movement data can still be read, according to the management of the Upper Austrian State Police.
Forensic medicine must solve mysteries
Salzburg’s forensic medicine department should clarify whether Drexler was still alive at the time. However, that will take some time. After the Linz Public Prosecutor’s Office intervened, an expert was commissioned to examine the corpse maggots. So this question still remains open.
Source: Krone
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