Dead woman (57) in Styria: husband (61) confessed the crime

After a dead woman was found in Pöls-Oberkurzheim on Tuesday in the Upper Styrian district of Murtal, the husband confessed to the killing, a police spokesman told the APA on Wednesday. The man is said to have cited jealousy as the motive for the crime and there had been an argument for a few days. The woman’s body is now being autopsied and the man’s mental state is being examined. The suspected murder weapon, a kitchen knife, was seized and is being forensically analyzed.

The couple probably got into an argument in the afternoon when a family member was visiting them. A witness then called the emergency number around 5:20 p.m. and a patrol drove to the crime scene, an apartment building. The 57-year-old was finally found dead in front of the apartment building after the argument apparently moved outside the apartment. Obvious signs of violence were discovered on her body. The husband (61) allowed himself to be arrested by the police at the crime scene without resistance. The Styrian State Criminal Police Office, Niklasdorf branch, took over the investigation on behalf of the Leoben public prosecutor’s office.

According to the count of the autonomous women’s shelters, this is already the 25th femicide – the intentional killing of a woman by a man because of her gender or because of “violations” of the traditional social and patriarchal role concepts attributed to women, as defined by the women’s shelters – in this year.

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• Suspected murder in Upper Styria: woman dead in apartment, man arrested
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SERVICE – In Austria, women who experience violence can find help and information at the women’s helpline at: 0800-222-555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Association of Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (AÖF) at www.aoef.at; the Vienna Intervention Center against Violence in the Family/Violence Protection Center Vienna: www.interventionsstelle-wien.at and the 24-hour women’s emergency number of the City of Vienna: 01-71719 as well as the women’s shelter emergency number on 057722 and the Austrian Violence Protection Centers: 0800/700-217; Police emergency number: 133

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