crime
Convicted murderer on the run – escaped in a forest
The Rhine-Palatinate police headquarters is searching for a convicted murderer with a large contingent of police officers. (Symbolic image) photo
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A convicted murderer escaped from two judicial officers accompanying him into a forest near Germersheim. His ankle bracelet was later found and a search is underway for him.
A murderer convicted in Baden-Württemberg is in a planned execution on Monday Germersheim (Rhineland-Palatinate). As the police in Pforzheim announced on Tuesday evening, there had been no trace of the man since Monday afternoon.
The Rhine-Palatinate police headquarters searched for the 43-year-old with a large contingent of police officers. A police helicopter and members of the service dog squad were also involved in the search.
The search for the escapee, who had fled into the forest near a quarry pond, was also unsuccessful on Tuesday. The ankle bracelet of the prisoner, who is actually in the Bruchsal prison, was found and confiscated on Monday in the city of Germersheim. The man was traveling with two judicial officers. A police spokesman did not provide further details.
Convicted of murder
The prisoner from Pforzheim was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Karlsruhe Regional Court on May 7, 2012, among other things, for murder. It was clear to the court that the then 32-year-old lured his victim from Pforzheim to Gotha on January 7, 2011, tied him up and beat him. He and a co-accused, then 30-year-old woman, then drove with the injured man (44) to the southern Palatinate. According to the verdict, the man who had now fled strangled him there with a belt. The two then drove with the body to Alsace and hid it in a bush near Lauterbourg near Karlsruhe.
The co-defendant from Gotha received a nine-year prison sentence for serious bodily harm, extortion and robbery.