An 81-year-old admits to 1994 killing of American tourist as trial opens in Germany
The defendant nodded yes as prosecutors said DNA evidence linked him to the decades-old cold case.
- An 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing 24-year-old American tourist Amy Lopez in 1994 at his trial's opening on Tuesday in Koblenz, Germany.
- Investigators identified the defendant after analyzing old DNA traces using new methods, leading to his arrest in late February at a nursing home near Koblenz.
- Prosecutors allege the man, then 49, lured Lopez into a secluded room of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, where he allegedly handcuffed, sexually assaulted, and killed her with nine knife wounds to the chest.
- Defense lawyer Volker Klein confirmed the defendant's full admission before presiding judge Rupert Stehlin, with eight trial days scheduled and a verdict expected in Sept.
- The crime remained unsolved for more than 30 years after children playing nearby discovered the body of Lopez shortly after the Sept 26, 1994, incident.
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The octogenary admitted that he killed Amy Lopez, an American tourist, in 1994 in western Germany. It is thanks to recent DNA analyses and new critical evidence that this old cold case of...
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Independent EspañolBERLIN (AP) — A 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing an American tourist in Germany more than 30 years ago at the start of her trial on Tuesday, the German news agency dpa reported.
An 81-year-old man confessed in a German court on Tuesday to raping and murdering an American tourist more than 30 years ago, the DPA news agency reported. The murder of Amy Lopez was solved using DNA analysis, and the suspect was arrested by police in February this year at a retirement home.
Hans S. (81) hunted women for decades. In 1994 he killed U.S. student Amy Lopez. Now he has been convicted and is on trial.
The defendant is said to have sexually abused and murdered American tourist Amy Lopez in Koblenz about three decades ago.
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