Austrian Axe Murderer Planned Killings for Weeks

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transworldnews.com

An Austrian man who killed five members of his family with an axe on Tuesday reportedly planned the killings for weeks.

39-year-old Reinhard Steinbauer showed no emotion when he walked into a police station and confessed to killing first his wife and daughter, and later his parents and father-in-law, with an axe he bought for that purpose.

Steinbauer described how he decided Tuesday was “a good time” for the killings after having purchased the axe on Saturday and celebrating the Pentecost holiday with his family on Monday.

Police found the bodies of his 42-year-old wife Barbara and 7-year-old daughter Natalie at the family’s home in Vienna. Steinbauer then killed his parents Engelbert, 72, and Gabriela, 70 at their home in Ansfelden. Father-in-law Heinrich Reiter, 80, was killed at his home in Linz.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Ansfelden is to the south west of Mauthausen, and

Amstetten which is where the father held his daughter captive for so many years is further southeast of Mauthausen, but both Ansfelden and Amstetten are right neat the main freeway that crosses Austria from Salzburg to Vienna.