Elfriede Blauensteiner
Elfriede Martha Blauensteiner (born January 22, 1931 in Vienna , † November 16, 2003 in Neunkirchen, Lower Austria ) was an Austrian serial killer who went down in Austrian criminal history as the " black widow " .
history
Blauensteiner, who was addicted to gambling , looked for her wealthy victims in need of care using personals . Before she killed her victims, they had bequeathed her “caregiver” property and real estate . She had her lawyer forge the associated wills . She then gambled away the illegally obtained property in various casinos . One of her victims in 1995 was 77-year-old pensioner Alois P., whom she - like a later victim - had met through a personal ad she had placed. She first made him unconscious using Euglucon , a blood sugar-lowering drug combined with an antidepressant, and then let him die slowly from frostbite. To do this, she put ice-cold towels on her victims and called emergency services at the "right" time. The victims who were still alive then died in the hospital within the next few hours. Another victim was the widow Franziska K., who she murdered in 1992 with the help of Euglucon in order to get her passbooks. The cases were eventually cleared up after the nephew of one of the murder victims felt his inheritance had been betrayed and became suspicious.
Elfriede Blauensteiner was first found guilty in 1997 in Krems in a murder case . The verdict was life imprisonment . In 2001 she was convicted of murder in two other cases in Vienna. Her appearances in court were legendary, in which she partially denied any guilt. At one stage she appeared with a golden crucifix , held it up and quoted Pontius Pilate from the New Testament : “I wash my hands in innocence” . The then President of the Senate and later President of the Supreme Court, Johann Rzeszut spoke at the time of a "dimension of injustice that is actually too great for an earthly court" . Your defense lawyer was the Austrian Elmar Kresbach.
Elfriede Blauensteiner was imprisoned in the Schwarzau Prison from 1997 . She died in 2003 at the age of 72 of complications from a brain tumor and was buried in the cemetery of the Simmering fire hall (group E11, number 18). The grave was abandoned in 2016.
Artistic work on the serial murders
- The story of Elfriede Blauensteiner served as the basis for the 2001 film “ The Praying Mantis ”. There Christiane Hörbiger played the main role.
- At the Landestheater Linz ( Eisenhand venue ), an “Operetta criminelle” about Elfriede Blauensteiner was premiered on May 9, 2007, with libretto by Silke Dörner and music by Peter Androsch .
report
- Otto Stangel: History | Portrait of the federal state: Elfriede Blauensteiner - Vienna's "Black Widow" today at noon, ORF 2, January 11, 2016. In: TVthek, orf.at, accessed October 7, 2019. - Video (4:18)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Glattauer : The sprightly widow Blauensteiner . In: The time of February 9, 1996.
- ↑ The Black Widow - Elfriede Blauensteiner FuenfzigFuenfzig, youtube.com, undated published no later than 2010, video (4:48 min). Reproduction of the contribution Black Widow, TATsachen, ORF2, 2001 or 2004 at the earliest. - With commentary by court expert Sigrun Rossmanith.
- ↑ The standard . See also OGH December 17, 2001, 12 Os 59/01.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blauensteiner, Elfriede |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blauensteiner, Elfriede Martha (full name); Widow, black |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian serial killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2003 |
| Place of death | Neunkirchen, Lower Austria |