The Witch of Pavilion V: Waltraud Wagner and Austria’s Angels of Death
In Vienna’s Lainz geriatric hospital, death was supposed to be ordinary. Between 1983 and 1989, nurse’s aide Waltraud Wagner and three colleagues turned Pavilion V into a killing ground — overdoses, insulin, and a ritual they called “mouth care.” They confessed to dozens of murders. The real number may never be known.
Host Alexander Lawson follows the case from the night-shift jokes that nobody reported, to the tavern boast that finally broke it open, the 1991 trial that stunned Austria, and the 2008 releases that enraged it all over again.
This is not a mercy-killing myth. This is what…
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