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After the Isar murder: the police are looking for clues with a poster
Barrier tape from the fire brigade hangs on a tree: late in the evening of May 28, 2013, a 31-year-old was injured so badly by an unknown man that he died in hospital a short time later Photo
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In May 2013, an unknown man stabbed and killed a 31-year-old in Munich without warning. The alleged perpetrator disappeared without a trace. How the police are now looking for new clues at the crime scene.
Ten years after the unsolved murder of a young Italian in Munich, the police are looking for new clues with a large poster at the crime scene. It shows a photo of Dominik L., who was killed on the Isar at the age of 31, as the deputy head of the homicide squad, Mathias Heidtmann, said on Thursday.
The so-called Isar murder had shocked Munich: On May 28, 2013, an unknown person stabbed Dominik L. several times without warning, who was then cycling along the Isar with his fiancée. He had stopped his bike and confronted the stranger because he had previously spat on his fiancee. The perpetrator – dressed in a dark coat and a dark shoulder bag – disappeared on foot. Since then there has been no trace of him.
“We have damn little,” said Heidtmann. The police have followed up on more than 1,000 tips over the past ten years, checked 7,500 mobile phone owners and evaluated 5,800 saliva samples. 400 tips were explicitly about people who would have spat on others. Even today, such cases would be reported to the Munich Homicide Commission to check for a possible connection.
Even a revision of the case last year did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough – but the investigations are ongoing, as Heidtmann emphasized: “We never called it an old case because we never stopped the investigation.” Although there is no longer a special commission or an investigative team, five colleagues are still working on the case – two of them for ten years.