Suspect in custody

Knife attack in erotic studio: three women dead

(Bild: Klemens Groh)

Just hours after the suspected family drama, the next murder alert in Vienna: three female victims were stabbed to death with a knife in an erotic club - perpetrator (27) caught!

While there were no murders of women in the first few weeks of this year, there have now been five female victims within 24 hours in two bloodbaths in the Austrian capital. Following the discovery of the bloodshed of a mother and her daughter on Friday morning, the next major alarm was sounded in the evening - less than 14 hours later - for the homicide investigators of the Vienna State Criminal Police Office. This time in the red-light district! Three dead women were found in an erotic club in Engerthstraße in the Brigittenau district at around 9 pm. 

Perpetrator was still holding a bloody knife when arrested
Investigators were greeted by a scene of horror: the trio of women in the Asian studio had been literally butchered with a knife. As if in a bloodlust, the triple murderer stabbed his victims countless times. During the immediate search, a suspect was quickly arrested not far from the scene of the crime. The young man still had the bloody murder knife with him.

The bloody crime took place in a massage studio in Engerthstraße.(Bild: zVg)

(Bild: Klemens Groh)

The Vienna emergency services were called to the scene but were unable to do anything for the victims. According to initial findings, the three women were probably the only staff present in the establishment at the time of the crime.

Murder suspect under constant interrogation
The crime scene was still being investigated on Saturday night. In the search for the motive or the exact background to the horrific explosion of violence, the suspected 27-year-old triple murderer was under constant interrogation by the investigators. It is also still unknown whether, as with the family drama hours earlier in the country road, it was also a possible act of relationship.