“He lived in a dark world. Torsten W. (53) had power over the four women to whom he humiliated. Now they are all dead.” The German newspaper Bild leads the way when it comes to news coverage around the bizarre mystery of the five ‘kruisboogdoden’, where one man and four women dead have been recovered. The German police gives a tentative little about the possible motive of the murders, or suicides.
In any case, follow the international media is now also the case that for a part it plays in the sleepy town of Wittingen, not far from Hanover. And that began with a chilling discovery, 650 miles away, in a hotel in Passau on the border with Austria. the
The ingredients of the mystery are now Netflix-worthy: a medieval weapon, with four deaths – a man and four women – and has not (yet) a motive for their death. “The use of crossbows as a weapon is extremely rare”, said Walter Feiler, spokesman of the public prosecutor in Passau. “You see them only at medieval markets.”
