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Woman and daughters found dead: partner admits killings
Two civilian officers from the criminal police enter the apartment in Herten where the bodies of a woman and two girls were discovered
© Christoph Reichwein / DPA
After a woman and her two daughters were found dead in an apartment in Herten, the partner came under suspicion. According to investigators, he has now confessed.
In the case of the mother and her two daughters, who were found dead in an apartment in Herten in North Rhine-Westphalia, an arrest warrant has been issued against their partner for three counts of manslaughter. The 35-year-old, who is also the father of the children, confessed to suffocating the woman and two children aged seven and five. said police and prosecutors on Thursday. He cited relationship disputes with the 37-year-old woman as a motive.
The 35-year-old was brought before a magistrate at the district court in Recklinghausen on Thursday at the request of the Bochum public prosecutor’s office. They issued the arrest warrant. Further information could not be published at the moment, since the exact course of events is still the subject of the investigation. The homicide commission has already carried out numerous interrogations and investigations into the environment to clarify the circumstances of the death. The evaluation of the evidence secured at the crime scene is ongoing. After the autopsies of the victims, further investigations are necessary to clarify the exact causes of death.
Partner of the dead von Herten arrested
Police officers found the three dead in their apartment in Herten on Tuesday evening. An acquaintance had informed the police because she could not reach the Turkish family. Police officers then drove to the address. The partner was arrested in Marl early Wednesday morning.
Further source:Communication from the police and prosecutors.