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Verhunc, Mautner's brother, decided to visit the spouses at their home in Schrems, only to find both of them tied up their beds. Kindlinger appeared to be still alive, but his sister had evidently been strangled to death. In the subsequent police investigation, Kindlinger claimed that they had been robbed and in the process, the robbers had tied them to the bed, accidentally causing his wife to suffocate to death. This explanation proved inconsistent, as an analysis of the crime scene indicated that there had no apparent struggle and Margarete had been tied up willingly. Due to this, Kindlinger was arrested on charges of murder and remanded to the local prison to await trial.
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Kindlinger's own defense attorney admitted that he could not give any other reasonable explanation in his client's defense. Due to this, coupled with hearsay regarding the deaths of Kindlinger's love interests and his supposed molestation of the teenage girl, he was found unanimously guilty by the jury. As a result, he was convicted of the murder and given a
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Kindlinger continued to correspond with a variety of women from around the country, sending them love letters. At one point, it was also claimed that he had bragged about a molesting a teenage girl, but this was never conclusively proven. Tragedy struck on April
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On the other hand, prosecutors presented testimony from several medical professionals that concluded that the robbery scenario would be impossible, as they had examined
Kindlinger and found no defensive wounds, indicating that he had been tied up by his own volition. This proved to be crucial to
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due to his advanced age, repeatedly claimed that he was innocent and his wife had died during a supposed robbery. This claim was supported by his defense attorney, Dr. Peter Stern, who pointed out that his client made no confession to the murder and that most of the prosecution's evidence is
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