Sonja Engelbrecht case: bone parts found in the forest near Kipfenberg – Munich
In the fall of Sonja Engelbrecht, a Munich resident who was believed to have been murdered 27 years ago, the police apparently discovered where the corpse was stored. Because during the renewed search for a forest area near Kipfenberg in the Altmühltal (Eichstätt district), around 100 emergency services found more bone parts in the area of a crevice on and Wednesday. Among other things, a fragment of a human lower jaw was recovered, in which teeth were still stuck. The forensic pathologists will find it easier to identify the mortals.
As the police reported, the site is about 200 meters from the spot where a femur that may have been abducted by an animal was found in 2020. This is proven to have come from the 19-year-old at the time of her disappearance. A definitive assignment of the newly found bones was not yet possible on Wednesday, the forensic investigations ran at full speed throughout the day. A result could be available on Thursday.
A police spokesman Exactly the place where it was found as a mossy chasm hidden in the forest. On Tuesday afternoon, climbing experts from the Alpine task force of the Oberbayern Süd police headquarters discovered the bones in the crevice, which is accessible from both above and below. There are indications that the perpetrator or perpetrators hid the young woman’s body there 27 years ago. Experts in securing evidence from the Munich criminal police searched the rock and its immediate surroundings on Wednesday – protected from the rain by a blue tent roof – and found more bones and probably other clues that could be used.
A first search in November had to be ended due to the weather. “We’re picking up where we left off,” a police spokesman said on Monday. The homicide squad is supported by units of the riot police, the Munich police headquarters, the headquarters in Rosenheim and Ingolstadt, and by Croatian cadaver dogs. A representative of the Munich I public prosecutor is also at the scene. The investigation of the several meter deep rock chasm will continue in the coming days.
In addition, a reward of 10,000 euros was offered, which should lead to the clarification of the crime or the arrest of the perpetrator. The investigators are also hoping for clues, possibly even from the perpetrator’s environment. Posters calling witnesses have been hanging out in the Kipfenberg area since Friday. Whistleblowers can contact the Munich Police Headquarters on 089/29 100.
Sonja Engelbrecht would have been 46 next Monday. In the night of April 10th to 11th, 1995, the high school student disappeared without a trace a week after her 19th birthday. Since then, her parents have been desperately looking for her, and the homicide commission determined without success. On a website created seven years ago, Sonja Engelbrecht’s family leaves little doubt that she does not consider the previous findings about the course of the night to be credible, and she also doubts the previous investigation results.
It has only been certain for a few months that Sonja Engelbrecht is dead. A forest worker had already found a human femur in the summer of 2020 in the dense forest northwest of the Upper Bavarian town of Kipfenberg in the Eichstätt district, which, after DNA typing was carried out again in September 2021, could be unequivocally assigned to the missing woman from Munich.
The bones were found above the Grösdorf district of Kipfenberg, only about 1.5 kilometers as the crow flies from the A 9 autobahn, which runs from Munich to Nuremberg. The public exits are Denkendorf and Kinding/Altmühltal. It is also conceivable that the young woman’s body was taken from Munich by car and buried by the perpetrator in the rocky cleft 100 kilometers away. Sonja Engelbrecht’s trail was lost during the night from Monday to Tuesday during Holy Week 1995.
The 19-year-old Laimerin is said to have gone with her companion, a school friend who was two years her junior, first to a bar on Schleißheimer Strasse and then to the apartment of two acquaintances on Schellingstrasse. From there she is said to have left shortly after 2 a.m. with her companion. Her school friend reported that she tried to call her sister from a phone booth at Stiglmaierplatz, and that he himself had taken the tram away. However, the relatives doubt that Sonja went to Stiglmaierplatz at all.