The horror confession

“Then I knew: I’m going to kill this woman now”

The small house in Vienna-Floridsdorf where Robert O. committed the terrible crime against a 91-year-old woman.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/gerhard bartel, Polizei)

In September, a 52-year-old man brutally killed a pensioner in an allotment garden in Vienna. It was not his first atrocity - the man had already committed murder at the age of 20 and later seriously injured numerous women. His horrific confession.

When Robert O. broke into a property on Bahndammweg in Vienna-Floridsdorf late at night on September 3, "I was actually", he says in interrogations, "calm, almost relaxed". Although he knew that he was about to do something horrible.