The accused were transferred to the Feldkirch prison, and in the morning a magistrate imposed pre-trial detention on suspicion of murder, informed Norbert Stüttler, spokesman for the regional court in Feldkirch. The next detention check is in 14 days, further information on the investigation was not given.
According to the current status, the 30-year-old woman is said to have been killed by her two acquaintances in the night of last Thursday in the 19-year-old’s apartment through massive violence to the head and neck in the form of beatings and choking. Before that, the trio is said to have shopped at a gas station for a night of partying together. The “Vorarlberger Nachrichten” reported, citing a criminalist involved in the case, that the video material from a surveillance camera installed there and from an ATM would be one of the most important clues that led to the investigation of the accused. According to the investigator, the burden of proof is massive.
Dead body in the car for several days?
According to “Austria”, the two men are said to have put the dead woman in the trunk of a car on the night of the crime and drove around with her for several days. So far there has been no official confirmation of this. How and when the dead woman was brought to the later location is still at the investigation stage, the criminalist explained to the “Vorarlberger Nachrichten”. The woman was discovered on Saturday by a property owner in a drainage ditch in Lustenauer Ried. She had previously been reported missing by her father.
Suspects are said to be associated with the drug scene
The public prosecutor’s office in Feldkirch has now taken over the media work in this case. The investigations in the case continued, one currently has no new findings to report, said Karin Dragosits, spokeswoman for the public prosecutor’s office, on Thursday. According to the police, the 19-year-old was partially self-confessed, the 25-year-old initially made use of his right to confiscation. A toxicological report will determine the extent to which drugs played a role in the case. But that will only be available in a few weeks, the spokeswoman said.
According to the police, the two suspects were known to the authorities, but only because of minor offences. They are likely to be attributed to the drug scene, to which the woman was also in contact.
Source: Nachrichten
