Status: 16.01.2024, 16:04 PM
By: Felix Gattinger
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Memmingen – Memmingen – In Memmingen, a 33-year-old woman now has to answer for murder. She is accused of being responsible for the death of her 38-year-old husband, who died in a room fire in May 2023.
The fire brigade had been able to successfully resuscitate the man in the apartment at the time, but he later died in hospital.
In July, the Memmingen Criminal Investigation Department suspected that the victim's wife, who had made the emergency call to the operations control center on the day of the crime, could have set the fire together with her 28-year-old brother and thus deliberately killed the deceased. A specially set up investigation team with the code name "Rauch" had carried out several searches in this context, which ultimately led to the two siblings being taken into custody.
In the course of their investigations and interrogations, the investigators ruled out the involvement of the brother, so that he was released. The public prosecutor's office in Memmingen has since dropped the case against him.
The situation was different with his sister: According to the criminal police and the public prosecutor's office in Memmingen, the investigations by the criminal police and the public prosecutor's office have now been completed to such an extent that the public prosecutor's office has brought charges of murder against the 33-year-old wife of the deceased, who has been in custody since July last year.
Suspicions are confirmed
Currently, the 33-year-old woman is suspected of having drugged her husband with sleeping pills that afternoon and then, when he had fallen asleep, set fire to the room in question with her own hands. Then, according to the prosecution, she "left the house believing that her husband would perish in the flames." What subsequently developed was a smoldering fire with heavy smoke, as a result of which the man ultimately died of smoke poisoning.
Circumstances point to murder
In the evening, the wife came back to the house and made an emergency call, probably to stay out of suspicion. The investigation, however, provided evidence that the woman had tried in vain to procure narcotics months before the arson.
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Investigators and prosecutors assume that although the couple lived together under the same roof with their children before the crime, the marriage of the two had already broken down. In addition, the accused is suspected of having wanted to enrich herself from his death by taking out life insurance policies for her husband.
For all charges, both the public prosecutor's office and the police expressly point out that the presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction is reached.