Add The New York Post on Google A jealous ex has been charged with murdering a wannabe beauty influencer – who may have then been buried alive in a suitcase.
The 31-year-old ex, only identified as Patrick M, allegedly strangled and stabbed 32-year-old Stefanie Pieper in her apartment in Austria last November before stuffing her in a suitcase that was later found buried in a forest near the border with Slovenia.
Pieper was found with facial injuries — which investigators fear she may have sustained while trying to fight her way out of the suitcase.“It is quite possible that she was still alive when she was placed in the suitcase,” prosecutors previously said in March.
Influencer Stefanie Pieper’s body was found in a forest near the Austria-Slovenia border in November last year. NX “However, it is equally possible that she was killed by strangulation beforehand. The autopsy could not definitively determine when the young woman died.”
Patrick M previously confessed to killing the influencer, blaming his jealousy after they split, and was formally charged with murder on Monday, Bild reported.
Her ex-lover, Patrick M., has now been charged with her murder. NX But he now appears to be walking back that confession, only admitting to burying Pieper’s body, the report said.
His brother and stepfather were accused of helping him move Pieper’s body – but they will not be charged, according to Bild.
She was last seen at a Christmas party on Nov. 23, and she sent a friend a series of harrowing texts warning of “a creep in the stairwell” after leaving the bash.
Pieper was supposed to be at a photo shoot the following day, but she failed to turn up, rasing the alarm because she “would never have simply cancelled,” the photographer told Austrian outlet 5Minuten.
The photographer then went to her apartment and realized she wasn’t inside.
Pieper’s body was found a week after she was believed to have been killed.
Patrick M was arrested in Šentilj – a Slovenian town located near the border with Austria – before he was extradited to Austria.
