Vienna, Austria - (Dungeonmaster Mess): Police chief Franz Kroell has been found slumped over his Graz apartment balcony with at least one bullet wound to his head, reports allege.
The 58 year-old was said to be very unhappy about a Clouseau-ish depiction of him in the forthcoming movie about the Natascha Kampusch kidnapping ordeal.
The film focuses on a series of Austrian public inquiry blunders which say the original police investigation into Wolfgang Priklopil's eight year reign of dungeon terror 'was a cover-up hiding the involvement of a powerful paedophile ring'.
Viennese police have been slated repeatedly over the Kampusch fiasco which was once described as one of the worst peacetime crimes in Austria.
"That was before they discovered Josef Fritzl, of course!" a spokesperson for the film studio said today.
"But even that business is likely to be the tip of the iceberg."
Downfall movie director Bernd Eichinger has pencilled in Kate Winslet for the Kampusch role and Steve Martin for Kroell.
