Karlstadt (dpa / lby) – According to previous investigations, there is no connection between a fire on a farm in Karlstadt, Lower Franconia, and the unsolved murder of Sabine B. “There is no evidence to suggest this,” he a police spokesman in Würzburg said Tuesday. It was initially unclear how the fire broke out on the farm where the 13-year-old’s body was found in December 1993. In the past, investigators had targeted the former owner of the property as a suspect. However, his trial was halted due to lack of evidence and the man is now dead.
The victim was last seen shortly before Christmas 1993 on a farm in the Wiesenfeld district (Main-Spessart district). The girl’s jacket and clothes were later found in a cesspool, but the 13-year-old was not. When the heavy concrete cover of an insulated manure pit was lifted, investigators uncovered the body. According to the Würzburg public prosecutor’s office, the student died violently.
According to police, a barn on the farm went up in flames on Tuesday morning. Nobody got hurt. The damage to the property was estimated at several 100,000 euros. The main hall of the complex burned down. The roof of the building, on which a photovoltaic system was installed, collapsed.
Last December, the Würzburg prosecutor charged a 17-year-old man with murder at the time of the murder. He is said to have killed Sabine. The “cold case” is now in the Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Bamberg. In early May, the Würzburg district court did not accept the murder charge due to lack of concrete evidence. The Public Prosecutor’s Office filed an appeal. According to the High Regional Court, a decision on this complaint will be taken at the earliest in October.
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