Austrian Extradition Case: Stranger than Fiction

Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction. But in the case of Austrian John Henry Abbott Unterweger, an international serial murderer, his fiction was all too real. On June 30, 1994, the man known as Jack Unterweger, 43, hanged himself in his prison cell two days after being convicted on nine counts of murder. Unterweger, who had produced an acclaimed portfolio of macabre art while both in and out of prison, including a self portrait in which he is depicted hanging in a noose, was responsible for a string of strangulations, three of which had occurred in Los Angeles, California in 1991...(more)