Drugged before her death?

New, alarming facts in the Christa P. case.

The "Krone" is aware of the new developments in the tragic case of Christa P.

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Forensic findings suggest that Christa P. from Linz may have been sedated before her death. And: suspicious traces of blood were found in the apartment of the woman's "last companion", which are now to be compared with her DNA.

The Linz woman (54) had been missing since the night of October 13 to 14, 2023. After she had spent the evening in a pub in her home town - and then taken a cab to another pub to meet an acquaintance, Heinz S. (name changed).

Heinz S.'s many lies
During questioning, the man then claimed that the cook had subsequently gone home with him to his apartment, where she had laid down on his couch to get some sleep - "because she was already very tired", he explained to the police at the time: "And when I woke up at 6 a.m. the next morning, she had already left ..."

The cook had been missing since October 2023 - until her body was found last June.

(Bild: Wenzel Markus/Markus Wenzel)

She was buried in this field on the outskirts of Linz - next to a farm.

(Bild: Einöder Horst/Horst Einöder/Flashpictures)

Information that could not be refuted. Until last June, when a relative of the 43-year-old made an explosive statement: Heinz S. had told him that Christa P. had died at his home on the night of her disappearance as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and that he had soon buried her body in a field.

Conclusion: The suspect was interrogated, took the officers to the victim's "grave" - and remained at liberty. According to the authorities, he would only face charges of failing to render assistance and disturbing the peace of the dead.

The serious suspicion
However, toxicological findings now disprove the responsibility of the man - who is known to the police for drug offenses: large quantities of morphine were found in the remains of the deceased. Morphine, which is contained in the heroin substitute drug Substitol. And the 43-year-old was in a corresponding withdrawal program, so he had this substance at his disposal.

The information provided by the woman's last companion seems increasingly dubious to me. I assume that he will now be questioned again.

Wolfgang Gappmayer, der Anwalt der beiden Kinder der Toten

Bild: Heinz Stephan Tesarek

"Our mother," said Christa P.'s two - adult - children, "certainly didn't take the addictive drug voluntarily. And we have a bad suspicion." That their mother was deliberately drugged by someone else, "possibly with the aim of turning her into an unwilling rape victim".

Alarming for both of them, moreover: during a house search last fall, traces of blood were found in ten different places in Heinz S.'s apartment.

The seized material has now been taken to the forensic medicine department. DNA analyses will be used to investigate whether the traces may have come from the Linz resident.