The American killed his wife, 2 dogs and himself in Tirana! The letter he left for his parents
2024-08-20 11:22:04
TiranaPost
A serious event shook Tirana yesterday.
Matthew James Wertz, who worked as a teacher, strangled the wife with a rope, killed the dogs with a baseball bat and then hanged himself in the rented apartment where they lived.
The 53-year-old left a letter to his parents and apologized for not becoming a man and giving up his vices, adding that he is taking his loved ones with him.
Then he wrote the names of several people to whom he owed money and told them that the money he had left on the card was enough to pay off the debts. The American professor had been living in Albania for 4 years.
Initially, the dead body of the American who hanged himself was found, while later, looking for new evidence, the dead bodies of his wife, originally from Indonesia, but with an American passport, and the 2 dogs were found. The 55-year-old American, after strangling the woman, covered her body with clothes and placed the 2 drowned bodies of the two dogs on top of them.
Mattheë James Ëertz was absent from work yesterday and this worried the director of the Albanian College Tirana school, who went to his apartment on 'Vangjel Noti' street in Laprakë, at the intersection of "Valbona" street and "Ramazan Ceku" street. .
When he opened the door, he found the dead bodies and notified the police.
The autopsy of the corpses will be performed today at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tirana.
