Wolfgang Ott (criminal)

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Wolfgang Ott (* 1957 ) is an Austrian sex offender, murderer and alleged serial killer , whose crimes are among the most spectacular criminal cases in Austria.

Criminal offenses and suspected offenses

Wolfgang Ott was sentenced to 15 months probation and psychiatric treatment at the age of 16 for sexual assault . After two failed attempts at kidnapping women, he kidnapped 23-year-old bank employee Sonja S. in Vienna on May 30, 1995 and held her prisoner for three days in his house in Vienna-Liesing , raping and abusing her several times . Then he drove with her to Styria , where he stripped her on the banks of the Salza , tied her up and sank her alive with a concrete ring in the river, where she drowned. Her body was only recovered in Landl on June 26th .

On June 10, 1995, he kidnapped the 19-year-old high school graduate Karin M. in Vienna , raped and abused her several times before strangling her on a bank of the Salza in Styria and burying her in a wooded area in Palfau . Her body was not found until almost two years later, on June 6, 1997.

On June 12, 1995, he kidnapped a 43-year-old businesswoman in Perchtoldsdorf and kept her prisoner in his house for over 20 hours, during which he also raped her. When he left the house for a short time, she managed to escape and alert the police, which immediately triggered a major manhunt for Ott. He kidnapped and raped two other women while on the run, one of whom managed to escape. The other, a 23-year-old mountaineer, he transported over 600 km in the trunk of his van to a bank of the Salza in Styria and released her there after she had promised to meet him again.

On June 20, 1995, Wolfgang Ott was arrested by the gendarmerie near Lake Attersee in Upper Austria . He had been out on a bicycle and had tried in vain to pretend to be a German tourist.

On June 23, 1995, the police found the body of the 34-year-old Helga V. near the place where Sonja S. was found. It is still being determined whether Ott is responsible for this crime. The police are also trying to clarify whether he also murdered the 17-year-old Martina Posch , who was found on November 22, 1986 on the shores of Lake Mondsee in Upper Austria.

On October 3, 1996, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and to an institution for mentally abnormal law breakers for the murder of Sonja S. On February 24, 1999 he was sentenced again to life imprisonment by the Leoben Regional Court for the murder of Karin M.

Detention

On July 1, 2004, Wolfgang Ott hid himself in a box secured with snap hinges while he was working in the joinery of the Graz-Karlau prison and had fellow inmates load him onto an institution's own truck that was to drive to the Maria Lankowitz subcamp . However, during a routine inspection of the vehicle, Ott was discovered at the prison gate and arrested. For Ott it had internal consequences: he was withdrawn from the carpentry and the activities there for the time being. He was also given solitary confinement for three weeks. His attempt to escape led to the installation of a pulse rate monitor in the lock area.

On April 24, 2017, Wolfgang Ott was admitted to the Krems hospital with about 20 pain reliever plasters in his detention room in the Stein prison , suspected of drug abuse . He was taken back to the prison three days later, on April 27, 2017. Nothing was known about the background of the incident.

literature

  • Andreas and Regina Zeppelzauer: Murder. The most spectacular murder cases in Austria. Publisher f. Collector, Graz 2005, ISBN 3-85365-215-8 .
  • Alexandra Wehner: Traces of Evil. Austria's most dangerous criminals. Ueberreuter, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-8000-7310-8 .

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ Double murderer after an overdose in the hospital. orf.at, accessed on January 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ott, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian sex offender and murderer
DATE OF BIRTH 1957