Bizarre case: Crossbow-affair in Germany was both killing and suicide

Through the past week's time has a macabre affair received a lot of attention. The case is about two women and a man, all killed with a shot from a crossbow.

Saturday 11. may police found three dead, 53-year-old Torsten W, 33-year-old Kersten E. and 30-year-old Farina C, in a room in a small hotel in Passau in Bavaria.

While Torsten and Kerstin lay hand in hand in the bed, lay the Flour on the floor.

German media is reporting how the Torsten and Kersten was shot in the heart, probably of Farina, which subsequently fixed the weapon against himself, and here put an end to his own life.

two murders and a suicide. Provisionally, there are undecided exactly what is the basis for the action, but the police estimates that both the two murders and the suicide was planned.

in the hotel room police found a letter, in which the two deaths stated that the volunteer had passed in death. Why, they wanted dead is provisionally to be seen.

In the hotel room was first found two crossbows. Later were found, further a third crossbow in a bag.

the Hotel in Passau, where the staff on Saturday found three corpses with crossbow arrows in the body. Photo: Lino Mirgeler
the Assessment is based, among other things, that there have been signs of struggle or surprise, but to the whole macabre scenario emerges organised.

Two days after the affair in Passau, on Monday 13. in may, police found two more killed women. This time in an apartment in the town of Wittingen in lower saxony.

Here we talk about the the 35-year-old teacher, Gertrud C, and 19-year-old Carina U. the Teacher was in a relationship with Farina, according to police opinion, they carried out two killings before his own suicide in the hotel room in Passau.

Police have not released information about the two last died, or how they have come of days, but the 19-year-old is probably lærerindens daughter.

While the 35-year-old apparently died by suicide, so is the 19-year-old girl has been killed. German media is reporting how both were dressed in black, as they were found.

And the fact that the teacher was a partner with Farina doing, that the police linked the two cases together.

In the German media speculation that heavily in the subject to the five people would die without, that is come to a conclusion.

Tentatively, there is a picture of that 53-year-old Torsten W. plays a central role in the sad affair. He ran a business with medieval memorabilia in a small town in the Rhineland Palatinate.

the German Bild talked with the friends and acquaintances of those killed, which tells how the 53-year-old apparently had a fierce power over at least one of the two dead women in the room.

He spoke in short commands to them. 'Have you done?', 'Quickly'. Women's body language was also humble. They kept themselves in the background and with his head down. He commanded with them, telling the owner of the property, which houses the medieval business.

The killing was obviously fascinated by the middle ages and were members of a ridderforening, among other things, organized tournaments and the like.

Prior to the combined murder and suicide had the trio visited a middelaldertræf in Austria, where they supposedly also had bought the three crossbows.