“File number XY solved”: The case of tax official Anton Fanger

“File number XY solved”
dr Greed and the false testament – the case of the murdered tax official Anton Fanger

15 years ago, a tax officer was murdered in the district of Erding. The police investigate intensively and finally uncover a battle full of lies, fraud and false leads. On Wednesday, the case is the subject of “Aktenzeichen XY solved”

Anton Fanger has been working at the Munich tax office for 20 years. The 48-year-old lives a secluded life on his family’s farm in the Erding district, where he grew up. Since the death of his mother, he has lived in the large house alone. On March 23, 2008, Easter Sunday, he was invited to dinner with a friend, former work colleagues and their partners in Augsburg, around 100 kilometers away. The two are expecting their first child in a few months. In the late afternoon Anton Fanger is back at home.

However, he does not come to work on the Tuesday after Easter. When there was no sign of life from the otherwise reliable man on Wednesday and Thursday either, two colleagues made their way to his home. Next to the house you will find a shotgun. When nobody opens, they call them Police. The officers then break down the door and find Fanger’s body lying at the bottom of the stairs.

Anton Fanger was shot

The forensic investigators found a cartridge case next to the victim. Since there are no signs of a break-in, the police believe that the victim opened the door for the perpetrator. The autopsy shows that the tax officer was shot in the neck. The murder weapon is a revolver. Investigators find a pool of blood on the kitchen table. But it looks as if someone deliberately placed it there.

Inside the house, officials also noticed a will lying on the living room floor. In it, the tax officer’s 36-year-old girlfriend, with whom he had dinner four days earlier, is made the sole heir. She is said to receive a total of more than one million euros. However, work colleagues recognize that the signature does not come from the tax official. They also find loan agreements between Fanger and his girlfriend as well as some repayment receipts, which are forged. A second will with exactly the same content is also exposed as a forgery by the State Criminal Police Office.

The officials are trying to talk to her and her 62-year-old partner, an orthopedist. In a crazy story, the doctor accuses the Cameroonian mafia of killing Fanger. Allegedly, the Cameroonian wife of an acquaintance wanted to match the single tax officer with an African woman from her home village – for money. But he said he didn’t want to. However, the woman would have insisted on the agreed payment and put him under pressure. At Easter he would have shown him the pump gun, which he allegedly got for fear of the Cameroonian mafia. But the investigators doubt the story.

Doctor has been in prison for murder before

They find out that the doctor had already been in prison for 17 years in Darmstadt for insurance fraud and murder from 1986 to 2003. He had previously drugged his landlord and cut the mucous membranes of his nose, causing him to choke on his own blood. He then set fire to his practice. However, since this did not burn down, officers also found the syringe with which he had previously drugged his landlord. After his release, the doctor gets his license to practice medicine again. The father of two, who has been married four times, is working as a doctor again.

Suddenly a psychotherapist reports to the investigators with a concrete suspicion. He believes a former patient of his shot the man and, after consulting the medical association, which releases him from the duty of confidentiality, gives the officer the name: that of the suspected doctor.

But the officials lack evidence, because the doctor and his pregnant girlfriend have an alibi. A neighbor finally brings about the decisive turnaround: She tells the officials that she saw the doctor with a bag in the elevator on the afternoon of Easter Monday. Allegedly he had to go to the central hospital for an emergency. Officials arrest the doctor and his girlfriend. The newborn baby of the two comes into a foster family.

The mystery of the pool of blood is also solved: It is the blood that the doctor took from a patient a few months before the crime. He also owns the pump shotgun found next to the house.

Case Anton Fanger also topic in “Aktenzeichen XY…solved!”

Charges will be brought against him on January 30, 2009. On August 25, the verdict was pronounced: life imprisonment. The judge in charge described the doctor as a “narcissist” who was “self-centered and unreasonable”. The court also determines the particular gravity of the guilt and orders preventive detention. His partner is acquitted. As it turns out, her partner drugged her at the time of the crime and left her in her apartment. Nevertheless, the woman received a suspended sentence of one year and six months for fraud and forgery in another case. Her partner, who was last settled in Augsburg, had falsely certified her illnesses. This enabled her to take early retirement.

On Wednesday (July 12), this and another case will be discussed in the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY solved” (8:15 p.m.). Moderator Sven Voss sets out on a journey and traces the path to solving the murder.

Sources: ZDFDPA archive