Crime at Mayerling: The Life & Death of Mary Vetsera

Crime at Mayerling deals with two of the most sensational crimes committed during the past century. Although separated in time by a hundred years, the two events are inextricably connected. In January 1889 the corpses of Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and the Baroness Mary Vetsera were discovered in the prince’s hunting lodge at Mayerling, near Vienna. The circumstances were hushed up and for decades scientists and historians had been trying to solve the mystery of what had happened at Mayerling. An Austrian Mayerling buff felt compelled to reach an explanation in his own way: in December 1992 he stole the coffin with the Baroness’s remains and had them examined by forensic specialists. Markus describes the remarkable findings which finally resolve the mystery of Mayerling.