A 39-year-old Austrian Reinhard St. killed five of his family members by an axe Tuesday and turned himself in to the police in the early morning of Wednesday, said Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stecher of the Criminal Department I at a press conference in Vienna.
Stecher said on Wednesday that Reinhard admitted his crime of killing his 42-year-old wife and his 7-year-old daughter in Vienna and three other bloody crimes of axing his parents and his father-in-law to death in Upper Austria.
The body of the daughter was found in a taproom and the wife's body was found in the bathroom in Reinhard's home in Vienna.
After killing his wife and daughter, Reinhard drove about 200 kilometers to the city Ansfelden, where is near city Linz, the capital city of Upper Austria.
He then killed his 69-year-old mother at the first floor and axed his 72-year-old father to death who was sleeping in the chair on the second floor of the house.
Then, Reinhard drove forward to city Linz and killed his 80-year-old father-in-law who opened the door for him at the night of Tuesday.
Stecher also mentioned that by the side of each corpse in Upper Austria, there was a letter written by Reinhard, while no letters were found by the bodies of the two victims in Vienna.
The axe, with which he committed crimes, was found at the back seat of Reinhard's car.
The motive of killing his family members was for a 6 digits debt, confessed Reinhard when he reported himself to the police. The real motive and other details of the murdering are still under investigation. It is at least the seventh family tragedy in Austria since 2004.
Source:Xinhua
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