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After escaping before entering prison: Convicted murderer caught in the Netherlands

2021-12-24T08:37:50.242Z


After he escaped three days ago, the murder of a 16-year-old was found by the police in the Netherlands. He is sentenced to life imprisonment and freed himself from his ankle cuffs three days ago.


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After his escape earlier this week, a convicted murderer has now been caught in the Netherlands on Friday night.

According to the police in Münster and the Dortmund public prosecutor's office, he was arrested in Enschede in an apartment.

According to a police spokeswoman, his partner was with him.

The 56-year-old fled from his home in Münster on Tuesday evening after he had freed himself from a court-ordered ankle cuff.

In January, around 27 years after the violent death of the then 16-year-old high school student Nicole Denise Schalla in Dortmund, the man was sentenced to life imprisonment.

He had attacked and strangled her in a suburb of Dortmund in 1993 - for sexual reasons.

Because the judiciary saw no risk of escape and the verdict was not yet final, the man remained free after the guilty verdict and was given an ankle cuff.

As a spokesman for the public prosecutor said, the judgment became final a few days ago after a decision by the Federal Court of Justice.

The public prosecutor's office was informed on Tuesday - whereupon they wanted to have the detention carried out.

According to "Bild" the man took off his ankle cuffs on Tuesday evening at 8:10 p.m. and left his cell phone behind.

The police then started a manhunt.

After three days she was finally able to catch the perpetrator.

One hit - 25 years after the murder

The man from North Rhine-Westphalia had overpowered Nicole Denise Schalla in 1993 not far from a bus stop near her home in the west of Dortmund.

Schalla's body was eventually discovered in a bush near an elementary school.

The youth had been abused and strangled.

The murderer, who has now been convicted, was arrested in the summer of 2018 after subsequent DNA analyzes of crime scene traces revealed a hit - 25 years after the murder.

According to investigators, Nicole Denise Schalla had been followed by the man when she got off the bus not far from her home on the evening of October 14, 1993.

She was on the way back from her boyfriend at the time who lived in Herne.

Only a few dozen meters away from the bus stop in the west of Dortmund, the alleged perpetrator is said to have overpowered the student.

The Dortmund prosecutors had to struggle with particular difficulties in the Schalla case: Since the body was lying in the rain, many traces were washed away over several hours.

The investigators tracked the man down with a new type of investigation method that had only recently been used in North Rhine-Westphalia.

A single flake of skin secured to the exposed portion of the corpse was overwhelmingly from the defendant.

The man had always denied the act.

sug / dpa

Source: spiegel

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