New horror confession

“All I ever wanted to do was kill, kill, kill”

The trial against the now 17-year-old is due to take place in a few weeks' time at the Vienna Provincial Court.(Bild: Reinhard Holl)

Thomas A. already had murder fantasies as a child. Serial killers soon became his idols. At 16, he began to roam Vienna at night - looking for victims. He killed two men and seriously injured a woman. "I know there's something evil inside me," says the perpetrator now, shortly before his trial.

The tall, slim fellow, who has been in the Josefstadt prison since the end of last year, appears harmless at first glance. In the neat clothes he also wears behind bars; in his efforts to always be particularly well-groomed.