The girl was strangled or strangled in 1996 found on the highway 1 near Euskirchen: 23 years after the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Claudia Ruf from Grevenbroich, the investigators have found new approaches - and intensify again the search for the culprit.
According to a new evaluation Profiler go of the Land criminal investigation from a perpetrator, who probably lives in the Grevenbroicher district Hemmerden or have a strong relation there, said the police at a press conference. The student had been sexually abused and killed. Her body was found tens of miles from her home, undressed on a dirt road. She had been doused with petrol and lit.
Now a mass DNA test in 1600 men convict the culprit yet. Profiler suspect him in the then village environment of the girl: "It could have been a respectable citizens of the neighborhood."
5000 Euro reward exposed
800 men from the village, who were between 14 and 70 years old at the time of the crime and are still living there, are expected to give a saliva sample in the next few days. Four appointments are scheduled for this, police and prosecutors in Grevenbroich said. One knows now also, why the corpse of the child was deposited with Euskirchen, could not betray this however for reasons of investigation tactics yet.
The investigators distributed 2000 information leaflets to households, the prosecutor in Mönchengladbach issued 5000 euros reward for hints. In addition, there is new scientific evidence on offender DNA, which is why a DNA screening is now.
Claudia Ruf was abducted on 11 May 1996 in Grevenbroich, between Dusseldorf and Cologne, when she was traveling with a neighbor's dog. Two days later, her body was found. An offender could not be determined at that time. A DNA test with saliva samples of 350 men was unsuccessful in 2010.