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The defendant in court in July 2020 (archive image)
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The Maria Baumer murder case will not come back to court.
The defense of the woman's fiancé had appealed, which the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe rejected as unfounded, said a spokesman for the Regensburg Regional Court.
This means that the judgment of October 6, 2020 is final.
Previously, among others, the "Mittelbayerische Zeitung" and the Bayerische Rundfunk had reported about it.
The fiancé had been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in a high-profile circumstantial trial.
In addition, the court determined the particular gravity of the guilt and thereby followed the prosecution's request.
Baumer, then 26 years old, was reported missing by her fiancé in May 2012.
The court saw it as proven that the now 36-year-old poisoned the woman with medication in order to be free for a new relationship.
Accordingly, he buried the dead woman in the forest and told the relatives that the woman had disappeared.
In the fall of 2013, mushroom pickers found her body.
The fiancé was already considered a suspect at the time and was in custody for six weeks.
Due to new investigation results, he was arrested again in December 2019.
In the process, he denied the murder.
He stated that Baumer took the medication himself.
He just buried her body in the forest out of fear.
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