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On April 27, 1995, the alleged women’s murderer Tibor Foco was to attend a lecture in the seminar room 311 of the Linz Johannes Kepler University. For his “watchdogs”, two legal guardians, the excursion to the “Business as Usual” campus was. FOCO was allowed to study Jus as a lifelong convicted criminals. For four years he had regularly attended seminars and lectures on the JKU, the first section of the study and the chapter of criminal law, the ambitious prisoner had already completed. The course is a tool to obtain the resumption of his process and acquittal, emphasized FOCO, who always pounded on his innocence. 30 years ago, it was no longer really believed that the university detention outputs could also be a good escape opportunity. An error.
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On the motorcycle into freedom
FOCO, which had built up a network of sympathizers and potential helpers outside of the prison, is said to have meticulously prepared his escape. Already in 1993 cell phones were smuggled into the stone prison. An escape machine made up of three motorcycles by a friend of a mechanic was available in a rented garage near the university. The keys were “deposited” in different locations, including in a cistern of a university toilet. “There were three principles: no weapons, no violence, nobody should be harmed. It was then,” says a 27-year-old Foco confidant, who published a book five years ago under the pseudonym “Trudy Truth” entitled “The truth about the escape of Tibor Foco-I was there”. On June 29, 1994, the serial killer Jack Unterweger in Graz hanged himself in his cell after he had been sentenced to life imprisonment. “Since then, Foco was afraid that he would be the next one. He didn’t believe in suicide,” says “Trudy Truth”.
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