Entire family dead

40 years of drama ended in disaster

A tragedy that went unnoticed for around two weeks unfolded behind the door of the smart Perger family home.(Bild: TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / KERSCHBAUMMAYR)

The decision of an elderly and seriously ill Mühlviertler claimed three lives. An entire family whose happiness had been turned into a life's work for the parents by a now preventable infection is dead. The dramatic end of a 40-year drama about a once healthy daughter.

"Sylvana was such a bright and clever girl. Until the tick bite" - in the settlement on the outskirts of Perg in Upper Austria, where a family of three was found dead in the house, people believe they know why 83-year-old Johann H. killed his wife Brigitta (75) and himself. It was the end of an approximately 40-year-long drama that had begun with a vacation in Hungary.