The woman was found dead on September 4 in her garden house in the Viennese district of Floridsdorf. She was lying in bed and had marks on her head from strong blows. Criminalists assumed from the beginning that her death was caused by someone else’s fault.
This was also confirmed by the autopsy, during which, according to the newspaper Kronen Zeitung, it was also revealed that the perpetrator sexually abused the defenseless victim and beat her with an unspecified blunt object. The first days of the search did not bring tangible results, the breakthrough came only after the DNA traces were evaluated.
On their basis, the criminal investigators identified the aforementioned Slovak as “highly suspicious” and published his photograph. The wanted man is about 160 centimeters tall, has a solid build, bald head and speaks Slovak, Hungarian and also broken German.
He has tattooed dots on the back of his left hand and a plant or leaf motif on his left forearm. It is not yet clear when exactly the woman died.
The perpetrator broke into the garden house through the window. According to the victim’s relatives, the senior woman did not have any valuables at the scene of the murder. The police offered a reward of 5,000 euros (125,500 CZK) for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.
