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Austrian Man Murders Family With Ax

Posted May 15, 08 5:43 AM CDT in Crime & Courts,  World    Most Popular

(Newser) – Austria made crime headlines again yesterday when a man walked into a Vienna police station and confessed to killing five family members with an ax, CNN reports. He killed his wife and 7-year-old daughter, as well as his parents and father-in-law in other cities, a police spokesman said. Police found the five bodies with ax wounds. The man cited “financial difficulties” as his motive.

“He said he'd been speculating on the financial markets and had lost everything, so he wanted to spare his family the shame,” said the spokesman.

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A coffin containing the body of one of the victims of a 39-year-old man is removed from an apartment building in Vienna, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.   (AP Photo/Kurier, Martin Gnedt)
Thomas Stecher from the criminal police speaks during a news conference in Vienna on Wednesday about detectives' discovery of the ax-wielding man's victims' bodies.   (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
An exterior view of the apartment in Vienna, Wednesday, May 14, 2008, where a man allegedly killed his wife and daughter.   (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
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