The Munich police process up to 3,000 missing persons cases per year. Most are cleared up within a few weeks, but in some cases the investigators have to assume an act of violence – as in the case of Vanessa Huber from Unterhaching.
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Joachim Molter
Every day in Germany, two to three hundred people are reported missing – and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) counts about the same number of missing persons cases. Half of the cases are cleared up within a week, 80 percent within a month and 97 percent within a year. Only very, very rarely does it take a quarter of a century before someone is found, as with Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich.