TV manhunt
Cold Case from 1997 on “Aktenzeichen XY”: Who killed Eva G.?
The case of the killed Eva G. from Annweiler is the subject of “Aktenzeichen XY” on Wednesday evening
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It is a case that is still a mystery to the police: On January 26, 1997, the then 26-year-old biology student Eva G. disappeared after a train ride. Her corpse was found the next day. Now the case is again a topic in the program “Aktenzeichen XY”.
On Friday, January 25, 1997, Eva G. is going to her parents in Landau in the Palatinate. Early on Sunday evening, the 26-year-old takes the train back to Freiburg. Between Landau and Karlsruhe she meets a young man who gets off in Karlsruhe. Shortly after 9 p.m. she changes to the IC 503 towards Freiburg. After arriving there, the biology student will presumably make her way to her shared student flat.
Around 9:15 p.m., residents on Stefan-Meier-Strasse heard screams. What they notice: Nearby they see an older, light-beige panel van with black license plates. This is parked on the side of the road at the level of the former DEA gas station and was spotted there in the afternoon.
Truck driver finds Eva G.’s body on a dirt road
The next morning, around 8.45 a.m., a truck driver found her body on the side of a dirt road on the 185 country road between Geisingen and Blumberg in the Tuttlingen district. The police assume that the student was violently kidnapped and killed by the driver of the van and that the perpetrator threw her out of the car on the dirt road. Witnesses observed the van near the scene of the crime around 11 p.m. and finally around 2.30 a.m.
Such a van plays a decisive role in the search for the perpetrator
© Police Headquarters Constance
At the site, the police secured traces, including a DNA trace. Personal belongings of the victim may also have been left behind in the perpetrator’s car. Since the police are still groping in the dark looking for the perpetrator, the case will be discussed on Wednesday, January 18 at 8:15 p.m. on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY”.
Cold case on Wednesday topic at “Aktenzeichen XY”
In this context, the police are looking for witnesses who made observations in the Blumberg/Geisingen area from 11 p.m. on that evening of January 26, 1997 that could be connected to the murder or could provide information about the van described.
The public prosecutor’s office in Rottweil and the police headquarters in Konstanz have offered a reward of 5,000 euros for information leading to the identification or arrest of the previously unknown perpetrator.
Sources: Police Constance, Friborg police