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...
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...
Viewers think they know where the blanket that wrapped the student's naked corpse was sold. There are also specific names of people who carried out renovation work in the Kipfenberg area around 1995.In the case of Sonja Engelbrecht, who was kidnapped and murdered in Munich in 1995, there are new indications after a renewed television manhunt in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" on Wednesday evening. "It is probably or possibly certain where the blanket was sold," said former State Criminal...
Case number XY Murder still unsolved after 28 years: new clues in the case of Sonja Engelbrecht Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich disappeared in 1995. Three years ago a forest worker found her bones in a wooded area. On Wednesday, the case is the subject of the special issue "Aktenzeichen XY... Cold Cases". © Police Bavaria In 1995, 19-year-old Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared from Munich. Her remains were discovered 25 years later, but the murder case remains unsolved to this day. As...
From Martin BernsteinThe student Sonja Engelbrecht, abducted, abused and then murdered in Munich 28 years ago, could have been the victim of a multiple offender. Stephan Beer, head of the Munich homicide commissions, could at least not rule that out on Tuesday afternoon. He spoke of a possible "working hypothesis". Even after the mortal remains of the then 19-year-old were found and a striking blue synthetic fiber blanket in a crevice near Kipfenberg in the Altmühltal, investigations are being carried...
Munich Chief Inspector Roland Baader made a dramatic appeal to television viewers on Wednesday evening. "In fact, we may have the last chance today to clarify this Sonja Engelbrecht case." A quarter of an hour was previously in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" the disappearance without a trace and - as we now know - the murder of the then 19-year-old schoolgirl on the night of April 11, 1995 were reconstructed on film.The phones never stopped ringing after that. The...
Munich Chief Inspector Roland Baader made a dramatic appeal to television viewers on Wednesday evening. "In fact, we may have the last chance today to clarify this Sonja Engelbrecht case." A quarter of an hour was previously in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" the disappearance without a trace and - as we now know - the murder of the then 19-year-old schoolgirl on the night of April 11, 1995 were reconstructed on film.The phones never stopped ringing after that. The...
"Aktenzeichen XY … Cold Cases" 19-year-old disappeared 28 years ago: what happened to Sonja Engelbrecht? Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich disappeared in 1995. Three years ago a forest worker found her bones in a wooded area. On Wednesday, the case is the subject of the special issue "Aktenzeichen XY... Cold Cases". © Police Bavaria 19-year-old Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared without a trace on April 10, 1995 after meeting friends. In 2020 and 2022, her bones were discovered in a forest area near...
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On April 11, 1995, the then 19-year-old Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared from Munich. without a trace. Until 25 years later, a forest worker discovered a bone 107 kilometers away near Kipfenberg in the Altmühltal. It took more than a year for investigators and family to be certain that it was the remains of the young woman. A year ago, the almost complete skeleton was discovered in a crevice in the rock. Since then, forensic scientists have bent over bones, rings and...
