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Schwäbisch Hall: forensics in action
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After the arrest of a 31-year-old who is said to have killed two senior citizens in Schwäbisch Hall and the surrounding area, investigators are investigating another death.
Because an 86-year-old woman from the neighborhood of one of the two victims and the alleged perpetrator died just a week before the case, a possible connection is being investigated, said senior public prosecutor Harald Lustig.
However, this examination is made more difficult: "The corpse is no longer there," Lustig confirmed a report in the Haller Tagblatt.
The woman's body was then cremated.
She was found with fatal head injuries, but her death was ruled an accident.
According to the public prosecutor, it was assumed that the woman had fallen.
The "Haller Tagblatt", on the other hand, reports that the emergency doctor assumed that the death was not natural.
Apparently the injury was so high up on the skull that it could not have come from a fall.
Relatives would also have pointed out the open handbag and an empty wallet.
The police and prosecutors had interpreted it differently at the time.
"We are now examining the case based on all the documents that are still available," said senior public prosecutor Lustig.
The 31-year-old arrested on Tuesday is meanwhile remaining silent.
He is accused of murder and manslaughter.
He is said to have killed an 89-year-old in Michelbach an der Bilz last week and a 77-year-old in Schwäbisch Hall in December.
He is also suspected of being responsible for the robbery of an 89-year-old man.
It is also unclear whether the man is responsible for other crimes in Germany.
The death of a 94-year-old senior whose body was found in October 2020 in Schwäbisch Hall - very close to the apartment of the 77-year-old who was killed - has not yet been clarified.
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