Secret double life

Quadruple murder: “He was always completely inconspicuous”

The perpetrator in one of the few pictures of him that exist. A hunting companion once took it. Now former friends say: "Lois didn't like being photographed."(Bild: Paul Plutsch)

He successfully ran a small transport company. He was always friendly and helpful. In his home town, Alois Huber was considered a decent citizen. Until he murdered four people in cold blood. Only then did it become known that he had been leading a gruesome double life for a long time.

Let's turn back the wheel of time in our minds by a decade. And let's go to Großpriel, a tiny village in Lower Austria, near Melk. What would the people there - back then - have said about Alois Huber? Only the best.

That he was nice, quiet, helpful and extremely modest. That he diligently ran his one-man business, a transport company. That he adores his dog. That he was often alone in his beautiful house because he had become a bit of a loner after the death of his wife, whom he mourned endlessly. That he sometimes takes part in tournaments in a shooting club and likes to go hunting.

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And what else would have been reported about him? Probably very little. Because nobody really knew him. "He was simply always completely inconspicuous." This sentence can still be heard all the time when locals talk about the man. Who was considered so good-natured, so nice, so well-adjusted.

Until the night of September 16/17, 2013, when Alois Huber murdered four people.