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Two decades later, teen’s murder solved by DNA

Twenty-four years after she was slain, the murder of a Kiel teenager has been solved using DNA evidence linked to a long-dead sex offender.

Published: 13 May 2011 15:51 CEST
Two decades later, teen's murder solved by DNA
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Alexandra P. was 19 when she disappeared in May 1987. Her body was found near her parents’ house a few days later and police said they believed she had been sexually assaulted before her killing.

Despite investigating 2,000 people who they believed could have killed her, police came up empty.

But officials said forensic experts used the latest DNA analysis techniques to connect the murder with certainty to a man who was 28-years-old in 1987.

By 1988, the man had been convicted of killing three prostitutes in Kiel and a 19-year-old intern. He died in prison in 2004.

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Two Ukrainians killed outside shopping centre in Bavaria

Two men were killed in front of a shopping centre in Murnau, a town in the Bavarian district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on Saturday.

Published: 28 April 2024 10:33 CEST
Two Ukrainians killed outside shopping centre in Bavaria

A 36-year-old man died from his injuries at the scene, while a 23-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries, where he later died, police said on Saturday evening.

Both of the victims were Ukrainian citizens who lived in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district, police said.

The same evening, police arrested a 57-year-old suspect – said to be a Russian national – who lives near the crime scene.

The 57-year-old is now being investigated on suspicion of murder.

“The exact course of events, background and motive are now the subject of the criminal investigation,” the police said.

The public prosecutor’s office has applied for a warrant for the suspect’s arrest.

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