Three countries hunted him, one bridge fell, and nobody knows how his story really ends.
To blow up a train crossing a bridge near Budapest, what ordinary travel item did this engineer pack with dynamite?
A suitcase Szilveszter Matuska, a Hungarian mechanical engineer, hid the explosives in a brown fibre suitcase that went off under the weight of the Vienna Express, sending most of the train into a ravine.
When German guards set the prisoners free as Soviet troops closed in, what surprising thing did this convicted train wrecker decide to do?
Stay and wait Matuska reportedly hoped his Serbian language skills would help him talk his way into good standing with the arriving Russians.
Police found the bomber standing right at the scene of the wreck. How did he get them to let him go?
Pretended to be a passenger He was released at the crash site, but investigators in three countries kept hunting him and arrested him in Vienna a month later.
After walking out of prison, what life-saving job did this mass murderer pretend to have at a Russian war hospital?
A surgeon He worked with the hospital for a time and then moved on with the Soviet troops, before reportedly returning to his hometown.
Decades later, what did a band with a greasy name make about the Train Killer?
A song The band Lard released "Sylvestre Matuschka" in 1990, joining films and an art installation inspired by a man whose final fate is still unknown.
