Tragedy in Carinthia

Julia wanted a new life – and had to die

The scene in front of the house where Julia and her children lived after the bloody deed was heartbreaking: the little girl's bicycles there - the candles for the murder victim there.(Bild: Uta Rojsek-Wiedergut)

With her fourth child under her heart, Julia from Carinthia had to die - her married lover was convicted as the murderer and still refuses to confess to the crime. But he has accepted a life sentence.

It is a sultry summer night. A couple in Feffernitz in Upper Carinthia can't sleep. Between 1.15 and 1.30 a.m., they suddenly hear loud screams and repeated rumbling from the neighboring apartment, where a young mother, Julia, lives with her three small children. When the man looks out of the window shortly afterwards, he spots a male figure in the courtyard, who first leaves and then quickly runs away. It is clear to the worried neighbors that something bad must have happened.

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And soon there was this terrible suspicion
At 1.46 a.m., her emergency call is received by the police. At 1.55 am, two officers are at the scene. They enter the apartment through an open balcony door and hear water running from the bathroom.