Mischa Ebner
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Early life[edit]
Mischa Ebner was found neglected with his brother Alex at the age of four. The boys were severely impaired in their development due to the lack of care from their parents, Misha could not yet walk properly, his brother, two years older, was mute. In 1979, both were adopted and according to his adoptive mother, Mischa discovered that he could cope with his anger in endurance sports, such as cycling.
At the age of 23, Mischa unexpectedly won the Frauenfeld military competition, the most famous Waffenlauf in Switzerland. On his victory run, Alex Ebner, his brother, accompanied him. Three days later Alex committed suicide, which reportedly greatly affected Mischa.[1]
At the time of his brother's death, Mischa Ebner was working as a cook in various catering establishments, and since 1999 had been cooking in an old town restaurant in Bern. He found a friend and trained at the Laufverein 95 Burgdorf, a running club. As a successful athlete and committed cook, he appeared fully adjusted.
Crimes and investigation[edit]
In the months leading up to August 2002, police received reports of a "snatch thief" in west Bern, with the aggressiveness of the attacks increasing over time. The perpetrator was reported to have squeezed a lemon-water mixture into the eyes of his victims, and had hit a victim with an iron bar. Two women were also severely strangled.[2]
On the night of August 1, 2002, two women were seriously injured with a knife in Bern, only an hour apart from each other. One of the victims, a 20-year-old high school graduate, died from her injuries.[3]
The surviving victim was able to provide an eyewitness description of her attacker, and the police were later sent handwritten letters addressed to the victims and the police, with one containing items belonging to one of the victims. Two of the letters contained traces of DNA which matched traces of saliva found at some crime scenes. With the help of the media and the Austrian case analyst Thomas Müller, a search strategy was developed that aimed at the vanity of the perpetrator. The handwriting samples and a picture, intentionally drawn unshaven by the police to provoke the perpetrator, were published In fact, the perpetrator complained in letters to the police about the wanted report, stating that he had an “unclean complexion” and thus provided additional handwriting samples. In the course of the manhunt, a young woman reported to the police and stated that she had a “love letter” with similar handwriting. On it was the name and address of Mischa Ebner, the perpetrator.
Ebner confessed to the murder of the graduate and a total of 29 other crimes, including several robberies on young women, some of whom he had seriously injured by stab wounds. Ebner also admitted several violent and property crimes. The police noticed an increasing intensification of force over the course of his crimes.
A psychiatric report by Professor Rainer Luthe showed that the perpetrator could not easily be assigned to a certain psychiatric scheme. The perpetrator himself was interested in shedding light on the sources of the dark side of his personality.
Death[edit]
The 27-year-old Ebner attempted suicide in the Bern remand prison. He was then placed on suicide watch and placed in a shared cell. Nevertheless, three months after his arrest, he managed to hang himself in his cell of the Thun regional prison.
Controversy[edit]
After the Bernese cantonal and city police had named Mischa Ebner as a suspect on August 21, a heated controversy arose over the publication of the name and a photo. The police hoped that the publication of the name would provide further information from women with whom Ebner had been in contact. Some media did not publish the picture, others published the picture, but either pixelated or with a bar over the eyes. The Associated Press agency eventually made the link to the suspect's sporting achievements. Many media followed with publications of this information.
The first chamber of the Swiss Press Council dealt with the question of whether naming the suspect should be justified or not. Above all, the aspects of the required presumption of innocence , the protection of the suspect's relatives and the opportunities for rehabilitation should be taken into account. The press council came to the conclusion that in the Mischa Ebner case, too, the naming of the name in the sense of the presumption of innocence and the principle of anonymization of the court reports had been a mistake.
Media coverage[edit]
- The life story of Mischa Ebner was reconstructed in 2005 by Stella Tinbergen in a documentary entitled The case of Mischa E. - The life path of a murderer . The film was awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in 2006.
- In 2007, Swiss television broadcast the documentary The Unmasking of the Woman Murderer Mischa E.
- Also based on the story of Mischa Ebner, the film Der Läufer was produced in 2018 , directed by Hannes Baumgartner .
Another artistic adaptation of the material is the stage play Mischa, der Fall , which premiered in Mersch and Ettelbrück ( Luxembourg ) in July 2008 . The work deals with the roles of perpetrators and victims, psychopathological behavior and the role of the mass media in the event of events that traumatize the public. It works with the artistic means of drama, dance, music, video and installation. (Choreography: Bernard Baumgarten, director: Claude Mangen, text: Toni Bernhart , stage: Do Demuth, video: Stoll & Wachall , music: Emre Sevindik).
- Stella Tinbergen: Mischa E. - Life path of a murderer. 2005, 87 min.
- Michèle Sauvain, Fiona Strebel: Criminal cases that moved Switzerland - The unmasking of the woman murderer Mischa E. SRF , 2007, 34 min. ( Youtube )
- Simon Wälti: He didn't see himself as a murderer. In: Der Bund from July 31, 2017 (archive).
References[edit]
- ↑ "MyDS". web.archive.org. 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ↑ Flammer, Larissa. "Interview - INTERVIEW: «Tödlicher Schatten» - wie der Thurgauer Waffenläufer Mischa Ebner zum Mörder wurde". St.Galler Tagblatt (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2021-08-03.
- ↑ DOK – Kriminalfälle - Die Entlarvung des Frauenmörders Mischa E. - Play SRF (in Deutsch), retrieved 2021-08-03
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