Piesendorf case – murder suspect: “I felt humiliated”

What goes on in the mind of a suspected killer? The criminal authorities ask themselves this question after every murder case, including Christian L., who on 13 May allegedly murdered his wife Sabrina L. (30) in Piesendorf with a knife in an argument.

The Public Prosecution Service has commissioned an expert neuropsychiatry to provide an expert opinion: Gabriele Wörgötter has examined the suspect and transferred her expertise to the public prosecutor. According to her report, the suspect’s personality structure showed “abnormalities such as mood swings, impaired stress management strategies, and emotional ambivalence,” but he did not have a personality disorder.

Inwardly ambivalent, but not mentally ill
Means: The accused is internally divided, but not mentally ill. He is an emotional type who leaves a “self-pity impression that tends to downplay his own behavior”. As with the confession to police, the suspect said during the investigation that he had only “incomplete” memories of the crime.

“Humiliated, blackmailed and threatened”
He was drunk and in a mental state of emergency. And in the run-up to the act, he was “humiliated, blackmailed and threatened” by his wife, the restaurateur said. If so, the expert said he was “in an emotionally destabilized state at the time of the crime”.

The suspect’s mental health was affected, but not eliminated. Ergo: So Christian L. was healthy at the time of the crime. He could distinguish between right and wrong when he called the young mother to the inn.

Then he would have choked and stabbed her – three knife wounds to the chest, one even to the heart. He has since been incarcerated on suspicion of murder.