
This might not be global news, but Austria’s most notorious serial killer Jack Unterweger died. He committed suicide in his cell right after he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Over here this is as bad as it can get – it’s not like you will get raped by your fellow inmates or fried to death on an electric chair. Even though Jack indeed would have faced an existence with a relatively harsh retrenchment of freedom he could have had the balls to get it over with after he brutally strangled at least 12 women. But he chose to hang himself using the same knot he strangled his victims with. This famous little detail is the first thing you will hear when some bug-eyed Austrian academic tells you the whole story and finishes with a paean of praise on how manipulative, charming and clever Unterweger was. Oh, that Jack! Read the rest of this entry »