14:14 GMT, 8 May 2012 The Daily Mail
A concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she'd taken of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers.
Sigrid Fleckseder had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a project titled 'The Four Seasons
of Death.' But when she handed the memory stick to a local electronics store in Vienna, Austria, the horrified staff sent them to their head office in Germany
who immediately called in Interpol detectives. One grim image shows the apparently lifeless woman's 'body' face down in the grass with her skirt lifted at the
back and her top torn up to reveal her bra.
Sigrid only realised there was an international inquiry into her 'murder' when police turned up at her home, given as the return address for the photographs.
'I don't know who was more surprised - me at them being there, or them at finding me still alive,' she said. A police spokesman confirmed: 'The photographic
company were convinced that these photographs were evidence of an undiscovered violent crime and handed them over to Interpol.'
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A concept artist sparked an Interpol murder hunt when chilling photographs she'd taken of herself posing as a corpse were sent to the police by film printers.
Sigrid Fleckseder had taken the realistic snaps showing her apparently dead on a river bank with ripped clothing as part of a project titled 'The Four Seasons
of Death.' But when she handed the memory stick to a local electronics store in Vienna, Austria, the horrified staff sent them to their head office in Germany
who immediately called in Interpol detectives. One grim image shows the apparently lifeless woman's 'body' face down in the grass with her skirt lifted at the
back and her top torn up to reveal her bra.
Sigrid only realised there was an international inquiry into her 'murder' when police turned up at her home, given as the return address for the photographs.
'I don't know who was more surprised - me at them being there, or them at finding me still alive,' she said. A police spokesman confirmed: 'The photographic
company were convinced that these photographs were evidence of an undiscovered violent crime and handed them over to Interpol.'
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