Judgement...
Two times lifelong for
Johann (Manfred) Weissensteiner
The decision was made after
consultation lasting for hours: The jury said 'guilty',
the judge afterwards 'two times lifelong' – one
time per murder. There even some jurymen had tears in their
eyes…
There were neither witnesses nor
evidences – and, most of all, no dead bodies."
Kleine Zeitung Graz,
26.9.1991
... and Global Conspiracy
Telex to APA (Austrian Press Agency):
APA310 4 CA 0275
Judgement/ Australia/ Styria / Salzburg
Cairns (APA/dpa) – The Styrian Johann
Manfred Weissensteiner (26) was sentenced on Wednesday by an
judgement in Cairns
(Queensland) for lifelong imprisonment because of two
murders. After the two weeks of the circumstantial lawsuit
the jurymen found proved that Weissensteiner had killed Hartwig
Ruediger Bayerl (35) from Salzburg and his british
girlfriend Susan Zack (31). Immediately
after the sentence Weissensteiners attorney announced an
action of appeal.
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A Tropical Agatha Christie Story
The
case, which was sold in the local press as a "tropical
Agatha-Christie-story", had unusual accompanying circumstances and therefor lots of headlines. Bayerl and his
pregnant girlfriend were frenzied of the idea of coming
atomic-explosions on earth and that "lizardlike Aliens"
are going to rule the earth, together with a
freemason-conspiracy.
The
man from Salzburg therefore had planed to emigrate to one of
the 6000 islands in the pacific with his yacht "Immanuel"
...
Telex
APA310 1991-09-25/16:38
From the file of the judgement:
…and the appellant [Weissensteiner] replied
"I will not give evidence nor call evidence."
Shepherdson J., C.A. No. 264 of 1991, Judgment.
Delivered the 22nd. Day of June 1992