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Austrian police to look into unsolved murder

AMSTETTEN, Austria
Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:59pm EDT

AMSTETTEN, Austria (Reuters) - Police investigating a 73-year-old Austrian man who locked up his daughter for 24 years and fathered seven children with her will be looking into the unsolved murder of a woman.

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Austrian broadcaster ORF said police had been given information concerning a woman called Martina Posch who disappeared in 1986 at the age of 17, and whose body was found ten days later wrapped in a plastic sheet on the edge of a lake.

Franz Polzer, head of the criminal investigation unit in Lower Austria told Reuters the province of Upper Austria had passed on the information about an unsolved murder, but would not give details.

"We have heard about this information from the state of Upper Austria...but we are not investigating it yet," Polzer said. "We are dealing with the case in hand and will investigate it later". He could not say if the cases were related.

(Reporting by Sylvia Westall)



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