Baby killed in border area and dumped in forest – Salzburg
An infant was killed in Bavaria. Because of the geographical proximity to Austria, the Salzburg police also published a search notice.
On Monday, the Salzburg police published a “search request from the Oberbayern Süd police regarding a suspected murder of a newborn in Ruhpolding/Bavaria”. On Sunday, December 4, 2022, at around 12:20 p.m., the Ruhpolding police station received notification of a dead newborn in the forest near the Seekopf hiking car park. A witness noticed a dead baby in the area and immediately called the police.
The alerted forces of the Ruhpolding police station found a dead baby behind a wall on the hiking trail in the direction of Förchensee.
Foreclosure confirms violent death
Officials from the permanent criminal service, the responsible department 1 and the specialist department for securing evidence of the criminal police inspectorate Traunstein and the responsible public prosecutor of the public prosecutor’s office in Traunstein take action on site. According to the current state of knowledge, the newborn may have been placed there to be found.
In the course of the immediately initiated criminal police investigations and the autopsy carried out that same evening in the institute for forensic medicine, there were indications of a violent death, which is why the responsible public prosecutor’s office in Traunstein initiated investigations into a homicide.
To clarify the facts, the public prosecutor’s office and the police asked the population for information in the case by calling 0861/9873-0
Lots of open questions
Specifically, the investigators are left with the following questions:
► Did anyone notice people in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene before or after the time they were found who could be connected to the crime?
► Who can give information about the possible mother of the child? Who knows a pregnant person who should have recently given birth and has no child?
► Who else could make suspicious perceptions in their personal environment that could be related to the crime?
► Any information can also be submitted anonymously.