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Bernard von Bredow: coroner speaks execution of the prehistoric researcher

2021-11-02T13:09:17.727Z


The German prehistoric researcher Bernard von Bredow and his daughter Loreena were shot in Paraguay. Who was the scientist and what is known about the murder?


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Bernard von Bredow in 1999

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In the summer of 1975, Bernard Raymond von Bredow ran through a deep gorge in the Bavarian Alps because he wanted to find a pot of gold. It was rough terrain through which he was traveling in the Gerhartsreiter Graben near Siegsdorf. It had rained a lot that summer, the rainwater washed away mud and clay. A large bone protruded from a pool. Many people could not have done anything with the bone, said Bernard von Bredow once to the Bavarian radio. But it was immediately clear to him that this bone had to be a special one.

Bredow was then 16 years old and brought the information together.

»Gravel bed?

Old?

Layer of clay even older?

Bones ancient!

Huge bones?

One meter and forty centimeters?

Cannot come from a rhinoceros, must be from a mammoth!

Let's go home!

Fetch a spade, ”he told TV reporters in 2004 about what was to become his sensational find.

For ten years he dug for the mammoth's skeleton

He went home to get tools.

For many weeks he dug and actually pulled the mammoth's bones out of the earth.

At school he said he was sick and had "mammugitis," so he told the BR.

For ten years, Bredow continued digging with a friend.

In the mid-eighties, when he couldn't get on without heavy equipment, he informed the Siegsdorf community in Upper Bavaria - then the whole skeleton could be excavated, as the »Süddeutsche Zeitung« reported in 1996.

Bredow later founded the Mammutheum, a museum and stone age park near Siegsdorf, where his find was also exhibited.

The mammoth was named Oscar.

It has now become known that the 62-year-old Stone Age researcher and his daughter Loreena were murdered in Paraguay in October.

A few years ago Bredow emigrated to the South American country with his teenage daughter.

According to the "Bild" newspaper, Bredow wanted to start a new life there.

The bodies of the German citizens were found on October 22nd in their house in Areguá in the south-west of the country, near the capital Asunción.

The country's media reports that Bredow and his daughter were shot.

The scientist was also tortured before his death.

The website "Ultima Hora" reports that Bredow had injuries to his face and bruises on his eye.

The coroner Héctor Meza, who had apparently examined Bredow's body, also spoke of shots in the neck. The scientist apparently had to kneel and was executed. The researcher's daughter is said to have been found in the bathtub with a gunshot wound in her stomach. However, there are indications that the young person could have been shot at another location. In addition, the rooms were searched. There were numerous blood stains in the house. The police announced that they would be evaluating the surveillance videos of the house in order to find the perpetrators.

The head of the homicide squad, Hugo Grance, said the perpetrators had apparently hoped to steal valuables.

Presumably they thought the foreigners were wealthy.

But Bredow might not be very wealthy.

In a video on ABC TV Paraguay, a friend of his has the floor who says that Bredow did not keep any valuables in the house.

In the past few years he had apparently made his living making violins.

He traveled the world with his father at an early age

On the website of the Mammutheum you can read that Bernard Raymond von Bredow was born in 1959 in Siegsdorf, in the community near which he also found the mammoth.

Bredow grew up at the foot of the Bavarian Alps and traveled with his father, a simultaneous interpreter, to many countries around the world at an early age.

Bernard von Bredow attended school in New Zealand for a while, but passed his Abitur in Germany.

After graduating from school, he traveled again to New Zealand, but also to India, Canada and Siberia.

In the past few months, Bredow has been critical of Germany several times and shared information on conspiracy stories on Facebook.

Some posts were removed from the platform stating that the information was incorrect.

Source: spiegel

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