Curious missing person case in Hesse: mystery surrounding a two-year-old who disappeared in the forest. The boy's temporary disappearance didn't just hit a personal nerve with the parents: "I've actually mentally prepared myself for the fact that we're going to spend the whole night here," says the mayor of Alheim.

The search operation was based on various guiding hypotheses as to where the boy could have gone. This finally led the boy to the L3253 country road between Sterkelshausen and the Beenhausen junction.