After the two murder cases in Tyrol’s Fieberbrunn and Itter (both Kitzbühel district) on Monday and Tuesday, not all the details have been clarified. While a suspect was placed in pre-trial detention in the Fieberbrunn case, the State Criminal Police Office in Itter is still looking for the perpetrator.
As reported, a 54-year-old Austrian was killed with multiple knife stabs in the neck in the first bloody act on Monday evening in Fieberbrunn. A 45-year-old acquaintance of the victim is suspected of committing the crime. The alleged murder happened in his apartment, he was on site. Because the local man was under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, he could only be questioned on Tuesday. However, he remained silent. The State Criminal Police Office has now handed over the “Fieberbrunn” case to the public prosecutor’s office. After further questioning on Thursday afternoon, the 45-year-old was placed in custody “due to urgent suspicion of murder,” explains Hansjörg Mayr from the Innsbruck public prosecutor’s office. When questioned again, the 45-year-old remained silent again and exercised his right to refuse to testify. “There will be a new review of pre-trial detention in 14 days,” reported Mayr. Until then, the investigation is ongoing. No solid lead in the Itter case In the case of the 36-year-old Unterländer, who was found dead by his parents on Tuesday evening in his apartment in Itter (also in the Kitzbühel district), there is still no concrete lead. According to chief investigator Gert Hoffmann, the criminal investigators are currently intensively checking people, but for tactical reasons he was unable to provide any further information. The body of the 36-year-old local had probably been in the apartment for a day or two when it was found on Tuesday. The German-born man, who is said to have worked as a lift worker for a mountain railway, was probably also fatally injured in the neck with a knife, or at least with a sharp-edged object.
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