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Hahn – 40 officials questioned 4,000 people and processed hundreds of leads, but Birgit Ameis (54) remained missing for five years. But now the sad certainty apparently exists: the airport employee is dead.
On April 4, 2015, it was Holy Saturday, the employee of the German Meteorological Service left her workplace in the Hahn airport tower around 7 a.m. She wanted to go home to her husband and three children in Lohmar (Rhineland). North-Westphalia). The 54-year-old woman never made it there, her husband reported her missing.
The Renault of the disappeared in the garage with forensic investigation
Photo: Police
After a week, the first worrying tip: Birgit Ameis’ Renault Scenic was found in a parking lot near Lautzenhausen.
Soko “Hahn” even sent mountain bikers
The Koblenz police then founded the Soko “Hahn”. Bernd Kreuter, head of the Koblenz murder squad at the time, on BILD: “Until then, everything was open to us: voluntary disappearance, accident, criminal act.
His researchers left no stone unturned. They took advantage of their private and professional surroundings, combed 400 hectares of forest, checked found objects for DNA traces, searched pools with 250,000 cubic meters of content by divers, wrote 2,632 Hahn passengers worldwide since April 4, They interviewed Ryanair employees, rode their favorite hiking trails on mountain bikes, spoke to 4,000 potential witnesses.
This panorama of the airport showed the last known whereabouts of the missing persons
Photo: Police
Result: zero. On August 25, 2015, the measures were discontinued, responding only to tips. Kreuter: “There are no more approaches. We have not had a case like this, completely without a trace, in 20 years. That, of course, frustrates us. “
Now the turning point: mushroom pickers found human bones in the forest near Büchenbeuren in Hunsrück. Objects in the vicinity of the bones could be assigned to Birgit Ameis, a comparison of dentures finally brought clarity.
After five years, the homicide squad has another approach to its investigation.
