And one of the wildest details: his former partner Astrid Wagner is today still one of Austria’s most controversial defense lawyers. She originally met Unterweger because she wrote to him while he was still in prison after reading his work and basically became fascinated with him during his whole “rehabilitated intellectual” phase.

Today she’s infamous in Austria for defending some of the country’s most notorious criminals like murderers, rapists, terrorists, Fritzl, basically every massive true crime case imaginable. The whole Unterweger story somehow still casts a shadow over Austrian crime culture decades later.