Horror suspicion

Nurse suspected of murdering millionaire from Lower Austria

The crypt of the former merchant. He has since been reburied there.(Bild: Imre Antal)

The body of a once prominent businessman was recently exhumed for detailed examination by forensic scientists. This is because there is now – belated – evidence that the man was murdered in 2021 by his "sole heir," who has been in custody since last November.

It was in the early hours of December 19, 2025, when several detectives, a forensic pathologist, and six gravediggers gathered at a cemetery in Lower Austria to carry out an exhumation; to open a crypt, recover the coffin of a person who had died on February 27, 2021, and then take it to Vienna. There, the body was autopsied and numerous tissue samples were taken for toxicological analysis.