The body was in the trunk of a car: A suspect was arrested after a dead 19-year-old was found in an underground car park in Regensburg. The investigating judge at the Regensburg district court has issued an arrest warrant for a 55-year-old. The Upper Palatinate police headquarters announced this on Monday. Accordingly, he is in a Bavarian correctional facility.
The suspect is said to be the ex-boyfriend of the person killed
The man is being investigated for homicide. However, he did not confess to the crime during his interrogation, said a spokesman for the Regensburg public prosecutor’s office on Monday. The spokesman initially did not want to reveal how the young woman died, citing knowledge of the perpetrator. No further details were disclosed.
According to dpa information, the suspect is the victim’s ex-boyfriend, and both were work colleagues. However, the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office did not want to confirm this information, which other media such as the Mittelbayerische Zeitung and “Bild” also had.
According to the information, the suspect comes from central Upper Palatinate, north of Regensburg. He was also arrested there.
Police are investigating the victim’s social media activities
In addition, police spokesman Michael Zaschka said he could not yet provide any information about how the young woman died. “The case is still at a very early stage,” he explained. Forensics had been examining the body since Sunday morning, but there is still no autopsy result.
The police set up an investigation team. According to the information, traces on the vehicle, at the location where it was found, as well as the victim’s phone data and social media activities, are still being evaluated. The next step is to wait for the results of the autopsy and the decision of the public prosecutor, said Zaschka.
The 19-year-old was said to have been seen on Friday evening
Police discovered the dead woman on Saturday in the trunk of a car that was parked in the underground parking garage of a hardware store. Passers-by had previously reported that the side window of the car had been smashed. According to the information, the car is registered to the 19-year-old’s parents. How long it had been in the hardware store’s underground car park is still unclear. According to information from the Bild newspaper, the 19-year-old was said to have been seen on Friday evening.
Searching for clues in the hardware store underground car park
Criminal experts searched the garage for clues until the evening. An undertaker later picked up the 19-year-old’s body. The investigators interviewed the young woman’s parents and witnesses.
The hardware store shares the underground car park with an adjacent fitness studio, members said in the BR interview. That’s why it’s never locked, even though a hardware store sign says the gate will be closed from 8 p.m. Members of the gym were shocked by the incident. According to BR information, there is no video surveillance in the relatively dark underground car park.