Influencer Stefanie Pieper had sparked concern with her disappearance after sending a WhatsApp message to a friend saying there was a “dark figure” in her stairwell Picture shows Stefanie Pieper and her boyfriend Patrick M., undated. He brought Stefanie's body to Slovenia in a suitcase. (Newsflash)

The lawyer who previously represented notorious criminal Josef Fritzl is now defending the man accused of killing Austrian influencer Stefanie Pieper, 32, and says her client broke down in tears, insisting he loved the victim and cannot explain his actions. The suspect, identified only as Patrick M., 31, because of strict privacy laws, appeared at a custody hearing on 1 December at the Regional Criminal Court in Graz.

His lawyer, Astrid Wagner, told local media that he is “completely br

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