Preface

	This text is a report detailing the connection between the crimes of the "Monster" Johan Liebert,
from 1986 over a period of ten years, and the case of the "Axe-Murderer" Gustav Kottman in Salzburg, Austria,
November of 2000.  This connection, while absurd at first glance, slowly hardened into conviction as I
pressed on with my research.
	With regards to the Johan case, I did my utmost to present the real names of all the people I
interviewed, but for a variety of reasons (sometimes to protect the subject's life) some of them are 
introduced using aliases.  There are no photographs, as nearly all of the interviewees objected to having
their pictures taken.  Instead, I have sketches of their faces put together from memory after each interview
was concluded.  When asked if they minded that would I draw portraits of them afterward, most of them
reluctantly agreed, although I declined to mention that I once worked as a caricature artist on the streets
of Vienna.
	Though there are numerous false names, rough portraits and other unfortunate but unavoidable 
comprises in order to protect the identities of those introduced in the text, I can assure you that everything
presented in this book is true.
	As I will state at the end of the book, whether or not the Johan incident is over, and what the 
meaning of this new storybook is, are both left up to the reader to decide.