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Suspect revokes partial confession
Manuel S. also claimed that after unsuccessful resuscitation attempts, he wrapped the dead child in a red blanket and placed it in the trunk of his gold Audi. Then he buried the girl in the forest. He later revoked this partial confession, which he had made without a lawyer.
Richter releases Manuel S. from custody
On Christmas Eve 2018, a Bayreuth District Court judge surprisingly released Manuel S. from custody. The reason given at the time was that the evidence that S. had killed the child or at least helped with it was insufficient. The Bayreuth prosecutor’s office appealed against this decision in vain.
The court convicted Ulvi K. of murder
Peggy Knobloch disappeared in May 2001 at the age of nine. It wasn’t until 15 years later, in July 2016, that a mushroom picker found his remains by chance in a wooded area near Rodacherbrunn in Thuringia. Ulvi K., a mentally disabled person from Lichtenberg, was quickly targeted by investigators. In 2004 he was convicted of murder, ten years later, in May 2014, but was acquitted again. Although K. was never in prison, he was in a closed psychiatric ward for about 14 years for alleged sexual abuse of children. His defense then demanded around two million euros in compensation from the Free State and the complete rehabilitation of K.
Investigators bring terrorist Böhnhardt’s DNA to Peggy’s location
But those aren’t all setbacks: In October 2016, Peggy’s murder case was mistakenly linked to the crimes of the right-wing extremist terrorist organization National Socialist Underground (NSU). Traces of DNA from right-wing terrorist Uwe Böhnhardt had been found on a piece of cloth near where Peggy’s bones were found. As it turned out, the forensic department itself had accidentally transferred the particle that belonged to Böhnhardt’s headphones to Peggy’s location, using a folding rule that had been in use years before at the burning mobile home of terrorist trio Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe in Eisenach. I was.
