Murder case Sonja Engelbrecht: Investigators take DNA samples in the Kipfenberg – Munich area

A handful of officers from the Munich criminal police were again on the move in the Kipfenberg area on Wednesday, where they and two colleagues from the Ingolstadt police investigated new leads in the Sonja Engelbrecht murder case. They also took DNA samples from various people, as Stephan Beer, head of the Munich homicide squad, announced on Friday. Beer did not say how many people were checked.

The then 19-year-old student Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared without a trace during Easter week in 1995. Her remains were only discovered last spring in an impassable forest area near the village of Kipfenberg in the Eichstätt district. The Kripo assumes a sex crime and suspects based on the location that the perpetrator must have a connection to the area.

After the case had been described in detail in the television program “Aktenzeichen XY”, a total of 320 new tips were received. Among them were some who specifically referred to people and construction and painting companies in the Kipfenberg area, as Beer explained. Some of these references have now been processed, he added. However, the results are not yet available.

Plastic foil and adhesive tape of the kind used in painting work were found on the skeleton parts of Sonja Engelbrecht found in a crevice in the rock. There were also remnants of a black and blue blanket with a distinctive pattern, for which new information has also been received.

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