In Münsterland, a man is said to have drowned his 79-year-old mother in a well shaft. As a motive of the 55-year-olds, the investigators accept greed, because the woman wanted to sell large parts of their land, as police and prosecutors in Münster announced.
The act had already occurred at the end of June, now had been issued against the son arrest warrant for urgent murder suspicion. The police had arrested the man shortly after the discovery of the body first, but released for lack of evidence again.
At the autopsy, forensic doctors stated that the woman must have drowned. According to the chief prosecutor, the son should be responsible. "The man from Neuenkirchen is accused of having his mother lowered by a strap and a ladder standing in the well in the late evening hours of June 25 and drowned in the two meters deep water of the well," it said in a statement ,
Son wanted to use the property of the mother on business
Hematomas had been detected at the head of the corpse. The investigators assume that the son caused violence to his mother before rappelling in the well. According to the chief prosecutor, the woman is said to have been "probably defenseless."
The head of the homicide committee said the son wanted to use the mother's property for his own business purposes. When the woman wanted to sell large parts of the tree and garden business, he might have seen his plan in danger. "The sudden death of his mother, he should have tried to save his financial situation," said the investigator.
The suspect has not yet commented on the allegations after his arrest, according to prosecutors.
