Crime: Triple murder trial – ex-partner “speechless”

The trial surrounding Zwiesel's alleged triple murder continued with statements from relatives. The public prosecutor accuses the 39-year-old defendant of killing two neighbors in the summer of 2025. The man's ex-partner and the mother of one of the victims reported that the relationship between the residents of the house was friendly, but that drugs and alcohol were consumed again and again.

The defendant and his ex-partner were already separated before the crime, the woman said. The two have a three-year-old daughter together. She had no experience of violence with the man during the relationship, but there were a few times when he tried to choke her or pull her hair during sex. However, he stopped immediately when she asked him to.

During the pregnancy and after the birth of her daughter, her partner at the time increasingly watched porn. The motive for killing the neighbors is said to have been sexual gratification. The ex-partner said about the crime: “I am speechless.” She would never have believed him capable of that.

According to the prosecution, the defendant first strangled a 26-year-old woman and dismembered her body. He hid his upper body in the refrigerator and took his legs to a forest.

According to the prosecution, a good two weeks later he killed the second neighbor. When he wanted to sexually abuse the dead woman, the 22-year-old's partner knocked on the door and called for her. The defendant is then said to have followed the man into his apartment with a hammer and killed him there too.

According to judicial information, the defendant later turned himself in to the police in Austria. The public prosecutor's office sees several criteria for murder as being met: insidiousness in all three cases, and in the case of the women also to satisfy the sexual drive. In the second and third cases, cruelty and, in the case of the man, to cover up a crime.

The defendant did not comment at the start of the trial. However, his defense attorney announced that his client would make a statement during the trial. The verdict could be pronounced on November 19th.