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17 years after the death of a Bavarian backpacker in Australia, her boyfriend at the time has now been arrested.
17 years after the violent death of a German backpacker in Australia, the police there arrested her boyfriend at the time. The police headquarters in Lower Franconia confirmed this on Tuesday when asked, so he should be brought before a judge on Thursday. Australian authorities said the 42-year-old suspect was arrested at his home in Western Australia after an extensive investigation. The Bayerischer Rundfunk had previously reported.
The educator Simone Strobel from Lower Franconia was traveling in Australia with her boyfriend on a working holiday visa. At the beginning of 2005, two acquaintances from Germany came to stay for a few weeks. The four had stayed together at a campsite in Lismore on the east coast. There the young woman suddenly disappeared. A few days later, her body was found nearby under palm fronds. Investigations revealed that the woman had been the victim of a crime.
The friend at the time was already considered the prime suspect. The police in Würzburg were initially unable to say on Tuesday why he was arrested right now. The case had been quiet for a long time after the Australian authorities suspended AUD $1 million for information about the young woman’s death in 2020, but there was new evidence.
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