354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 139 minutes

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Summary

In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fifteen years for strangling an eighteen year-old to death with her own bra (amongst numerous other crimes), many of Austria's literary elite were convinced he was rehabilitated. They would soon learn he was more sadistic than ever.

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0:00.0	Can a brutal rapist and killer ever truly be reformed in Australia in the 1980s?
0:05.4	It seemed for some as if this exact phenomenon had happened
0:09.0	Johan Jack Unterveger convicted of the senseless murder of an 18 year old girl amongst many other crimes had become a prolific writer while serving time in prison
0:18.0	His children's stories plays poems and autobiography touched the hearts of many of Vienna's most renowned literary intellectuals celebrities politicians and even a lot of average citizens
0:29.0	Jack's autobiography described his troubled childhood and he was able to gain a lot of sympathy for many he didn't want to be a monster
0:35.6	He was turned into one he now uses poetry to express his dark feelings
0:40.6	Safely he was better now. He professed he was a changed man
0:44.6	Truly 100%
0:46.8	Rehabilitated to many Jack was living proof that the power of exercising one's demons through the written word through
0:53.1	Education can heal a sick man and turn him from a brutal sexually motivated killer into an enlightened and even invaluable member of society
1:01.7	writers reformists and many others advocated for his early release. They wanted him pardoned
1:07.1	They weren't able to get him pardoned, but they were able to get him released much sooner than he should have been which would have been never
1:14.2	Jack was released from president may of 1990 after serving only the required bare minimum of his life sentence
1:20.5	15 years
1:21.7	Once free he enjoyed not only regaining his freedom, but his newfound fame appearing on TV shows
1:27.7	Working as a journalist and making the rounds amongst the upper class in Vienna and while he was making many of these appearances
1:33.8	While he was also working as a journalist paid to cover true crime
1:38.1	Just a few months after his release Jack began to kill young women again
1:41.6	And he continued killing into the next year in 1990 and 1991 Jack killed at least eight women in Austria and the Czech Republic
1:49.2	And while he was killing these women he was also reporting on their murders
1:53.4	paid to do so pretending to be an advocate for these victims as well
1:57.7	Jack was a suspect due to his criminal past, but initially there was no evidence to connect him to the murders
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