The Poet Who Reported His Own Murders: Jack Unterweger
A charming crime reporter walks into Vienna police headquarters and asks how the hunt is going for the man strangling women in the woods. Then he leaves — and another body appears.
Johann “Jack” Unterweger was Austria’s celebrated prison poet: convicted of murder in 1976, released in 1990 as proof that art could redeem a killer. Within months, sex workers were dying in Graz, the Vienna Woods, Prague, and Los Angeles — strangled with their own underwear, tied in the same hangman’s knot he had used sixteen years earlier.
This episode follows the double life of the man intellectuals championed…
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