Murder case Sonja Engelbrecht: hoping for a breakthrough
Munich – In the case of Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich, who was apparently murdered more than a quarter of a century ago, the police are monitoring for new findings until spring 2023.
No hot lead yet: forensic investigation ongoing
Forensic investigations at the crime lab were still ongoing, a police spokesman said. There are currently no results, nor do they contain a suspect. A hot lead that could lead to the perpetrator has not yet been found.
Eichstätt district: bones and teeth found
In March 2022, investigators found a jawbone of the missing person found in the forest near Kipfenberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt. “The DNA matches, according to an examination in the laboratory,” said a police spokesman at the time.
The Kripo assumes that the body of the then 19-year-old girl was placed in the forest about 100 kilometers north of the state capital and left in a crevice.
Other bones of the missing were discovered in the summer of 2020
The bone and some teeth were found during a major search in the confusing forest between two rock faces. The skeleton is no longer complete, presumably because wild animals dragged away some of the bones.
A thigh bone of the 19-year-old who disappeared in 1995 was discovered by a forest worker about 200 meters from this site in the summer of 2020. When the bone could then become the missing person about a year later, the assigned search in the forest began.
Sonja Engelbrecht: Disappeared since 1995
How Sonja Engelbrecht died is still a mystery, despite years of intensive investigative work. After finding the femur, investigators assumed that the young woman had been the victim of a violent crime.
Her family last saw the teenager on April 10, 1995, just after her 19th birthday. She left that day to meet up with a friend – and then disappeared without a trace.
More bodies found
In the spring of 2020, the skeletonized bodies of a young couple from Ingolstadt, who had been missing since 2002, were also discovered in the market town of Kipfenberg, which has around 6,000 inhabitants.
The investigators at the Kripo are currently still assuming that there is no connection between the two cases. The crime against the 21-year-old woman and the 23-year-old man from Ingolstadt is still unsolved.
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