Quadruple murder in Rupperswil

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The quadruple murder of Rupperswil is one of the cruelest crimes in Swiss criminal history, which was committed on December 21, 2015 in the Aargau municipality of Rupperswil . The perpetrators' executions of murder were characterized by cold-blooded execution, the random selection of victims and manipulative procedures. The victims were not related to and did not know the perpetrator. The motives of the murderer, who had no previous conviction and had not been noticed by the police, were financial and sexual.

Sequence of events

On December 21, 2015, the fire brigade was called to a fire in a residential building. The rescue workers found the bodies of four people during the extinguishing work. It quickly became clear that the victims had been killed before the fire broke out.

According to the investigation, the crime proceeded as follows: That morning, the perpetrator observed the house of a family in Rupperswil. At that time, the 48-year-old mother, her partner, her 13 and 19-year-old sons and the 21-year-old friend of the older son were staying there. The perpetrator waited until the mother's partner left the house and went to work. He then gained access to the house by posing as a school psychologist for the younger son's school with a forged business card. He pretended that the youngest son in the family was involved in a bullying against a classmate who subsequently committed suicide. After talking to him, he threatened the son with a knife, forcing his mother to tie up the older brother and his girlfriend with the cable ties they had brought with them. The perpetrator forced the mother to get cash. The frightened mother then withdrew 1,000 euros from an ATM at Hypothekarbank Lenzburg in Rupperswil and withdrew CHF 9,850 from the counter at the Aargauische Kantonalbank in Wildegg (which is documented by surveillance cameras). Upon their return, he used sex toys he had brought to the younger son, recorded the sexual abuse in eight cell phone videos, and then tied and gagged him as well. He killed all of the victims - the first victim was the 19-year-old older son of the family who had previously been able to break free from his bonds - with knife stabs and larynx cuts and tucked the bodies and the house in with the help of accelerators he had brought with him Fire to remove his traces. Not all details of the crime could be reconstructed, as none of the victims survived and the statements of the accused partly do not match the traces.

The perpetrator transferred the photos and films to his laptop on the day of the crime.

In February 2016, a reward of 100,000 Swiss francs was offered for information on how to solve the crime , the highest amount in Swiss criminal history. The investigation proved difficult as there was no relationship between the suspect and his victims. On May 12, 2016, just under five months after the crime, the perpetrator was finally arrested; the crime could be proven on the basis of DNA traces and fingerprints. How the police found the perpetrator is unknown and remains under lock and key.

Since no evidence from the population led to the conviction of the perpetrator, the Aargau government council decided to pay out the suspended reward as a bonus to the investigators involved.

Perpetrator

Materials found on the suspect: cable ties, tape, gun and shackles

The confessed perpetrator is a man, 33 at the time of his arrest, who lived with his mother 500 meters from the crime scene in a house in Rupperswil. He is single and claimed to be a student. He worked as a junior football coach and coordinator of the Seetal Selection , a cooperation between the clubs SC Seengen and FC Sarmenstorf in the junior sector . He planned the murders in Rupperswil and selected the victim family based on his sexual interest in the younger son.

When he was arrested, a rucksack with an old army pistol ( pistol 1900/06/29 ), ropes and cable ties prepared for tying, as well as adhesive tape were seized from his house . The police therefore assume that the suspect was planning other similar crimes. On September 7, 2017, the Lenzburg-Aarau public prosecutor brought charges.

Verdict

The first instance trial before the District Court of Lenzburg took place from March 13 to 16, 2018 - due to the great media interest and extensive security measures, however, not in Lenzburg itself, but in the building of the mobile police in Schafisheim . Thomas N. was found guilty of multiple murders , multiple (partially attempted) blackmail , multiple deprivation of liberty , multiple hostage-taking , sexual acts with a child, sexual assault , arson , multiple pornography , multiple forgery of documents and multiple criminal preparatory acts and was sentenced to life imprisonment (This means at least 15 years imprisonment, of which the perpetrator had already served 2 years at the time of the verdict). The district court pronounced the highest penalty in Swiss criminal law . The verdict on criminal offenses was unanimous. In addition, as a measure pursuant to Art. 64 (1), the accused was sentenced to proper custody by majority decision . All claims for damages were recognized.

Court president Daniel Aeschbach said that the requirement of permanent untreatability was not met, that life- long custody could not be pronounced - even if certain statements of the experts could be viewed as contradicting. One could not consider the different acts completely separately from each other, as the public prosecutor did in their plea. Both reviewers always emphasized the overall context of the various units of crime.

Prosecutor Barbara Loppacher tried to separate the causal relationship between the murder of the family and the psychological disorders diagnosed by the two experts (in Elmar Habermayer's report, a narcissistic personality disorder , in the case of Josef Sachs, an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder ) in order to ensure lifelong detention to obtain the perpetrator. The disorders diagnosed in the reports could explain the other acts, but not the murder of the family. Consequently, no mental disorder is decisive for the act that can be treated at all. She relied on Sachs' report, which explicitly stated that the murder was not traceable to the disorder (“In contrast to sexual acts with a child, which are directly related to pedophilia, the quadruple homicide cannot actually be attributed to a psychological one Personality disorder. »).

Loppacher's argument did not catch the majority of the five judges. They felt it was "inadmissible" to pick the individual acts to pieces. Although the prosecutor's approach was found to be “interesting” by the judges involved, it was “constructed”. A minority in the court had followed Loppacher's argument and saw no psychological disorder underlying the murder (which would have fulfilled the requirement of permanent untreatment for lifelong detention, since what is not there cannot be treated). Aeschbach emphasized, "Thomas N. was primitive, cold-blooded, free of empathy and blatantly selfish". Further, the presiding judge criticized the reasoning of the public defender , after which the victim would have contributed by their passive attitude to the facts of the case as "bizarre" and "grotesque".

The convicted person appealed against proper custody, and the public prosecutor's office demanded lifelong custody in the appeal. The unchallenged life imprisonment became final. On December 13, 2018, the Aargau Higher Court confirmed the proper custody in the appeal process. No lifelong detention was given, as the defendant was not found to be “permanently untreatable” by two independent experts. The defense is considering a move to the federal court .

additional

It was planned to address the case unsolved in the ZDF broadcast Aktenzeichen XY ... ; the shooting had already taken place at the time of the arrest of the perpetrator.

documentary

literature

  • Georg Metger, Franziska K. Müller: Forever. The incredible deed in Rupperswil and its consequences. Wörterseh, Gockhausen 2018, ISBN 978-3-03763-084-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Hohler Schafisheim, Anna Fischhaber: Lifelong after the quadruple murder of Rupperswil . In: sueddeutsche.de . 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed on March 17, 2018]).
  2. ↑ «The perpetrator was extremely cold-blooded». Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Erich Aschwanden: Rupperswil: This is how the quadruple murder happened . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 17, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The highest rewards in Aargau crime history. Aargauer Zeitung , February 22, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Quadruple murderer arrested in the Rupperswil case. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  6. ^ Rupperswil quadruple murder from A to Z in Tages-Anzeiger from May 14, 2016
  7. ↑ Rupperswil case: Reward goes to investigators. SRF , accessed on May 18, 2016 .
  8. ↑ See picture on NZZ: Chronology of the Quadruple Murder of Rupperswil , accessed on May 14, 2016
  9. ^ Perpetrators from Rupperswil planned further murders. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 13, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Thomas N. trained football juniors. Tages-Anzeiger , May 13, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  11. ↑ There is an indictment in the Rupperswil case - Thomas N. is accused of these cruel acts. watson , September 7, 2017, accessed September 7, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Andreas Maurer: Quadruple murder Rupperswil: This is how the process works. Aargauer Zeitung , March 13, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Federal Chancellery - P: SR 311.0 Swiss Criminal Code of December 21, 1937. Retrieved on March 16, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b Judgment in the Rupperswil trial against quadruple murderer Thomas N .: Life sentence and proper custody! Blick , March 16, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  15. ↑ How public prosecutor Loppacher bypasses psychiatrists - and why that is problematic. watson , March 15, 2018, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Erich Aschwanden: Quadruple murder from Rupperswil: Thomas N. remains properly kept . Neue Zürcher Zeitung online, December 13, 2018. Accessed December 13, 2018.
  17. ^ The Rupperswil case is filmed in Munich. SRF , April 27, 2016, accessed on May 14, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Book excerpt .