Criminal case from Bavaria
File number XY solved: The “bathtub murder” in Poing
“Aktenzeichen XY” presenter Rudi Cerne presents three solved murder cases on Wednesday
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In 2002, a father found his daughter dead in her apartment. She was brutally murdered and then placed in her bathtub. It takes a year until the police – by chance – find her murderer. The case is now the topic of “Case number XY solved”.
The police are searching at full speed for the murderer of the electrical engineer, setting up the special task force “Bergfeld” and launching a search call on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY – unsolved”. Since the perpetrator left his DNA traces at the crime scene, six weeks after the crime, 1,500 men between the ages of 14 and 45 were asked to voluntarily provide a saliva sample – it was the largest mass genetic test in Bavaria to date. A reward of 10,000 euros is also being offered. But all without the hoped-for success.
Woman accuses former fiancé of the crime
In October 2003, a woman contacted the police and said she knew who the murderer was. She discovered incriminating video footage of her ex-fiancé. That same night, officers stormed an apartment in the Riem district of Munich and arrested a 21-year-old casual worker. They find the victim’s jewelry and clothing.
Ten months earlier, the 19-year-old caller had accidentally come across a videotape in the laundry room that her fiancé was said to have used to film his crime. He threatened her with death if she betrayed him. In the recordings, she saw the woman lying lifeless on the floor with a knife in her neck and him assaulting the victim. Because she couldn’t bear the sight any longer, she ended the video recording right there. The perpetrator destroyed the video after the crime, but the police found images of the victim stored on a diskette in the alleged murderer’s apartment. A genetic fingerprint convicts him of the crime.
In October 2004 he made a confession before a youth chamber at the Munich Regional Court. As his defense attorney explains, he wanted to “checkmate” his victim with an electric shocker. But because this failed and the woman fought back violently, causing him to panic, he stabbed her and then put her in the full bathtub. He met the victim in an underground car park before the crime. He then followed the woman to her apartment in order to overpower her there.
“Bathtub murder” on Wednesday at “Case number XY solved”
The judge sentenced him to ten years in prison for murder with base motives and to satisfy sexual desire. He also orders placement in a psychiatric hospital. He died in custody in January 2013.
On Wednesday, March 6th, the case, along with two others, will be the subject of the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY solved” (8:15 p.m.).
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Sources: ZDFDPA archive, Southgerman newspaper