BUTCHER MURDERS FIVE
WOMEN STRANGLED IN VIENNA,
GUILT FREELY ADMITTED,
Arrested at Linz on suspicion of murdering a builder’s wife, Louisa Janks, tlic crime being described as the most horrible in Austrian history, Franz Leithgoeb, aged 53, an cx-butch-or, admitted his guilt. He also confessed to murdering his grandmother in 1920 and five .other women since.
Two of the victims were found dead in their beds. Their deaths were attributed to misadventure. Leithgoeb says he strangled them. Later he admitted killing two others in 1910 and 1920, and setting lire to the bodies. The (police recall the mysterious deaths of a number of other women who were strangled and robbed of money and jewellery, and "whose deaths they arc endeavouring to trace to Lcithgeeb, who served 13 sentences for robbery. _____
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Patea Mail, Volume LIII, 11 March 1932, Page 4
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