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Austrian incest father Josef Fritzl suspected of four murders


Josef Fritzl is likely to spend the rest of his life locked up in a psychiatric unit - but the full extent of his crimes may be yet to surface.


The depraved father, convicted yesterday after imprisoning his daughter, Elisabeth, for 24 years, is being investigated over at least four unsolved murders and disappearances.

A jury took only hours to find the 73-year-old guilty of rape, incest, deprivation of liberty, enslavement and murder by neglect over the death of his new-born son Michael in 1996.

Impassive, he accepted the verdict and said he would not be launching an appeal, bringing a swift end to a case that has shocked the world.

His life sentence means he cannot be freed for at least 15 years. He would then have to prove he no longer posed a danger to the public before being released.

Even as he was led away to serve his sentence, police were re-examining missing person and unsolved murder cases over the past four decades.

One is the 1986 murder of Martina Posch, 17, who was raped, strangled and dumped in a lake a short distance from where Fritzl and wife Rosemarie ran a guesthouse.

"What really stands out is that Martina looks similar to Fritzl's daughter. The likeness is incredible," police chief Alois Lissl said.

Other cases include the shotgun murder of Anna Neumayer, 17, near Fritzl's workplace in 1966 and the disappearance of Julia Kuehrer, 16, near his home in 2006.

The investigation also includes sex worker Gabriele Superkova, 20, was murdered and dumped in a lake near where Fritzl was holidaying in 2007.

Meanwhile, there is ongoing disbelief that Fritzl's wife, Rosemarie, knew nothing of the cellar although police insist she is an innocent party.

"What woman would stay silent if she knew her husband had seven children with his daughter and was holding her prisoner in the cellar?," police have said.

Rosemarie, like all of Elisabeth's siblings, refused to testify at Fritzl's trial.

Murder victim predicted own death

Edmonton Alberta's fifth homicide victim of the year predicted his own death just prior to leaving his north Saskatchewan reserve, says his aunt.

On Tuesday night, Landis Tyson Stick, 24, told his mother Connie, " 'If I go to Edmonton, I'll be coming back in a box,' " said aunt Janet Stick, who is speaking for the distraught family. "To me, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy."

PROPHETIC WORDS

Although his family thought he was going to Saskatoon and despite his now-prophetic words, Stick left the Onion Lake reserve Wednesday evening for Edmonton.

Around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Stick was fatally stabbed outside a downtown apartment block at 10720 104 St.

The killing remains unsolved.

Janet said her nephew was widely known as a gang member and she worried that he would run into trouble living his high-risk lifestyle.

"I personally wasn't shocked when it happened, with his involvement in gangs," she said from Onion Lake, about 50 km north of Lloydminster.

"I had tried talking to him."

"I always thought something like this would happen if he didn't quit. Maybe he offended somebody? Who knows why gangs kill people."

Stick spent most of his time in Edmonton and Saskatoon.

"He told his mom he wouldn't be back for a very long time," said Janet.

Stick borrowed $60 for a bus ticket in the days before his death, and said he was heading to Saskatoon for a court appearance, said Janet.

Police told her they found a court order in the victim's pocket, she said.

Stick recently showed his aunt a freshly written resume and told her he was looking for a job. "He told his mom he wanted to go straight, to get out of gangs and stuff," said Janet.

The family heard about Stick's death through the news media. They had been under the assumption he was in Saskatoon, said Janet. She's not sure why he would have headed for Edmonton instead.

"This is a small community. Rumours were already going around, and we didn't know," she said.

It wasn't until noon Friday that police told her officially that Stick had been killed.

She volunteered to tell her sister Connie - Stick's mother - about the death.

A MOTHER'S ANGUISH

"How do you think a mother feels when she's told her oldest son is dead? She was crying ..." said Janet.

The victim had five younger siblings, age 10 and older.

He had two children of his own who live with an ex-girlfriend. "(His ex was asking) what happened. I couldn't answer her questions because I had my own questions that needed answering."

Police continue to investigate. They had not released notice of any charges by press time last night.

Courts release 911 call of man who beheaded tot

For the first time, the public is hearing the 911 call made by a Delta, B.C. man who had just killed his two-year-old daughter.

Lakvinder Kahlon strangled his daughter, Rajwinder, and then cut off her head in January 2008.

The judge released the 911 call Friday after handing Kahlon received an automatic life term when he pleaded guilty to her second-degree murder last week.

In the call to the Delta Police department, Kahlon tells the operator he has just killed his daughter and asks police to come arrest him.

"I...I have depression I am very depressed...so come," Kahlon told the operator.

When asked what he did to his young daughter, Kahlon said "I kill her...I cut neck. I killed her already."

Kahlon's wife can be heard screaming in the background of the call.

The out of work drywaller originally pleaded not guilty two weeks ago when the trial began, but abruptly changed his plea without an explanation.

The court heard horrific details about the killing of his daughter Rajvinder. The girl was stabbed and beheaded while her mother was taking the couple's other daughters to school. She returned to find her kitchen covered with blood. Kahlon had already called 911.

In her judgment, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman said Kahlon is mentally ill and the killing had nothing to do with the fact that he had no sons.

There had been speculation earlier that Kahlon was depressed because he had only daughters.

But court heard the drywall worker was depressed because he was unemployed and worried about supporting his family.

Karissa's last words were 'Mommy, don't'

The final moments of 12 year old Karissa Boudreau's life were revealed in court Friday, as her mother pleaded guilty to strangling her own child with a piece of twine in a grim bid to keep her boyfriend from leaving.

Penny Boudreau, 34, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Friday in a Bridgewater, N.S. courthouse and was sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 20 years.

Courtroom spectators openly wept as they listened to the brutal details of 12-year-old Karissa Boudreau's murder. They learned that the little girl's last words were "Mommy, don't," as she was pinned down and the rough rope tightened around her neck.

Penny Boudreau left the court silently in police custody, filing through a crowd of reporters who tried unsuccessfully to get her to speak.

Karissa's frozen remains were found on the banks of the LaHave River on Feb. 9 2009, roughly two weeks after she reported her missing on Jan. 27.

Two days after the girl went missing, her mother had made an emotional plea to the media and public to help get her daughter back.

She claimed that the two had an argument in a supermarket parking lot on the day she went missing.

Four months later in June, Boudreau was arrested in Halifax and charged with the first-degree murder of her 12-year-old daughter and only child.

Reading from an agreed statement of facts on Friday, Crown Attorney Paul Scovil revealed chilling, until-now unknown details about the murder.

He read that Boudreau was given an ultimatum by her live-in boyfriend, Vernon Macumber, who told her either the daughter had to go, or he would end their relationship.

According to the statement of facts, Boudreau and her daughter did go to the grocery store on the day Karissa disappeared.

While there, Boudreau left Karissa in the car while she placed a call to her boyfriend, telling him the girl had gone missing.

Boudreau then returned to the car and they drove to a nearby road where she told Karissa to get out of the car. The two then argued, and Boudreau knocked her daughter to the ground before pinning her down and strangling her with a length of twine.

She then dragged the body back to the car, and drove to the nearby river where she rolled the body down the river bank.

On the way she put the twine in a coffee cup and stopped to throw it away, Scovil said.

The statement said the girl's pants came partially off when Boudreau was dragging the body from the car, and she left them in that state to suggest a sexual assault had occurred.

She also put some of her articles of clothing in a garbage bin at a local swimming pool.

Scovil told the emotional courtroom that Karissa asked her mother to stop.

"Karissa said, 'Mommy, don't,'" Scovil said as people in the public gallery sobbed.

Boudreau stood up and whispered the words "I'm sorry," in the courtroom Friday.

Justice Margaret Stewart, glancing up at Boudreau, told her: "You can never call yourself mother. "The words, 'Mommy, don't.' ... are there to haunt you for the rest of your life."

While the agreed statement of facts confirmed Boudreau's boyfriend had told her it was either him or her daughter if their relationship was to survive, Scovil said there was never any evidence Macumber was involved in the crime.

"Our understanding was that he indicated to her, 'We have to do something within our family, you have to either choose her or me,'" Scovil said outside court.

"We were satisfied he did not mean ... that she was to kill Karissa."

Scovil added that it was clear from the beginning that it was Penny Boudreau, "and her alone, who took responsibility (for) the murder."

Undercover operation

The court was also told Friday of the events leading up to Penny Boudreau's confession of the crime.

In an interview held Friday afternoon with CTV Newsnet, Scovil said undercover agents -- posing as members of a crime family syndicate -- were able to gain Boudreau's trust.

On Feb. 14, 2008, Boudreau met with an undercover operative who convinced her that he "could possibly make her 'problem' go away" if she told them exactly what happened.

"She told the undercover operator exactly what happened, and then the next day, led them to (the murder) scene," Scovil told Newsnet from Bridgewater. "Immediately after she had done that, they arrested her and she was taken into custody, and it led to a guilty plea."

When asked why the Crown didn't try to push for a first-degree murder confession, Scovil replied Boudreau's family preferred to settle the legal process now -- instead of waiting what would likely be another year for a higher conviction.

"We took into account the fact that the sentence for first and second-degree (murder) is the same -- it's life," Scovil told Newsnet. Parole eligibility for first-degree murder comes after a minimum of 25 years. "We said we'd need 20 years to accept a second-degree plea," said Scofield.

"In the end, we thought the right thing to do was to take a second-degree with a very high parole ineligibility, and get a conviction."

At the time of the girl's disappearance, police scoured a river and wooded area close to the grocery story, but nothing turned up until passersby stumbled upon the girl's remains.

After an autopsy was performed on Karissa's body, police said they were treating her death as a homicide. They did not release any details about how the girl was killed.

The city of 8,000, approximately a 90-minute drive southwest of Halifax, hadn't recorded a homicide since 1993.

Residents were stunned by the news of the girl's death.

At Karissa's funeral, Rev. Perry Ingersoll had praised her friendly personality, "winning smile" and love for animals.

Her teachers and friends described Karissa as a typical youngster who liked to sing and listen to pop music.