US EditionNew Findings: Investigators in Bavaria Suspect Connection in Two Cold Case Cases
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New DNA analyses in two murder cases from the seventies and eighties suggest that both victims may have been killed by the same sex offender. Police are hoping for evidence, even after a TV broadcast.
After the nationwide search in the ZDF broadcast "Acts sign XY... unresolved", the Bavarian investigators received many clues about decades ago murders of two girls. "The phones actually ran hot," said the spokesman of the police headquarters in Kempten, Johannes Stoll. The Kemptener Kripo investigates the murder of the 13-year-old Sonja Hurler, who was killed in Kempten on the night of July 5, 1981. Meanwhile, the police have secured a DNA trac…
The murderer of Sonja Hurler from Kempten is suspected of having killed another schoolgirl. These two "cold cases" will now be featured on the program "Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst" (Case File XY... Unsolved).
In Bavaria, a DNA trace links the unsolved murder of 12-year-old Marion Baier in 1973 with that of 13-year-old Sonja Hurler in 1981. Police assume the same perpetrator is responsible and hope for new leads from witnesses.
Two sex murders with similar patterns, but the perpetrator remained unrecognized for decades. Now, a new DNA track gives investigators hope for a breakthrough.
Oberasbach - Now the police become concrete: The "new investigation approach", which could bring the breakthrough in the Cold Case Marion Baier from 1973, is a DNA track. The Kripo is now investigating parallels to the murder of Sonja Hurler in Kempten.
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