Sydney, Australia – There was nothing in the past of Holocaust survivor Katherine Schweitzer that would provide a motive for her murder, an inquest heard today.
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The 81-year-old widow was strangled in her Bellevue Hill apartment on December 27, 2006.
Her body was dumped in a wheelie bin near the front door of her flat, where it was discovered by neighbours.
Panic and hysteria followed the grim discovery, Glebe Coroner’s Court was told.
The inquest which began today heard that Mrs Schweitzer, a Hungarian-born widow, died with no next of kin, leaving the bulk of her $3.3 million estate to charity.
However, counsel assisting the coroner, Ian McClintock, SC, said Mrs Schweitzer was not ostentatious about her wealth and there was no apparent motive for the murder relating to the disposition of her will.
“Nothing in her past suggests any plausible motive for the killing, based simply on her personality or conduct,” Mr McClintock said.
“There is no realistic suggestion that any known person held any significant grudge against her, let alone a grudge which explains the particular circumstance of her death.”
The court heard that the wheelie bin containing the body was examined by several neighbours and was later cleaned to remove fingerprints.
The inquest continues.
Maybe her lawyer had it done.
The sheer, unmitigatable, crass stupidity of respondent #1 is beyond understanding.