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The girl’s body was in a dilapidated building in Duisburg
Cause of death: “Forceful violence to the head”
The alleged crime scene is in ruins on a brush-covered wasteland at a dead end. Above her a house whose roof has collapsed. Most of the windows are bricked up. On Sunday, the girl’s family set candles and left a letter on a metal fence that supposedly protects the site from intruders. “You stay forever alive in our hearts” is written there.
The brother gave clues to the girl’s boyfriend.
The 33-year-old brother of the dead had reported the 14-year-old missing on Friday. After indications that the girl was said to have stayed in the abandoned ruins several times before, police had also searched for her there, said Stefan Hausch, a Duisburg police spokesman on Sunday. The area is fenced off, but there are traces indicating that people have stayed there from time to time, the spokesperson said. “You can move there without being seen,” was how he described the densely vegetated area.
The 14-year-old friend of the missing girl fell into the hands of police on Friday. In the neighboring city of Düsseldorf, passersby had noticed him because he was said to appear disoriented, police spokesman Hausch reported. Officers then picked him up and made the connection to the missing person from Duisburg.
The motive of the student (14) is not yet clear
In the course of his interrogation, he became increasingly involved in contradictions. So much so that investigators took him to the building’s ruins on Sunday for a crime scene inspection. “We are trying to gather the statements of the suspect according to the actual events at the scene,” the police spokesman said. The young man admitted that he had something to do with the matter, but then became entangled in contradictions that did not coincide with the tests and the investigators’ findings.
Investigators did not initially comment on the suspect’s possible motives and the crime’s history. The exact relationship between the two teens also remains “the subject of further investigation,” police spokesman Hausch said. “We have hints of a possible motive, but nothing is ready to say yet.” One is still in the middle of questioning the suspect and other witnesses. No more information can be expected before Monday. In any event, police had no indication of other people involved Sunday.
