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Prosecutor in the missing person case: That's why he's so sure that Rebecca died in her sister's house

2020-02-17T09:48:51.698Z


February 18, 2020 is a sad date for the family of Rebecca Reusch: on that day her “Becci” disappeared a year ago. The responsible public prosecutor explains in an interview why he firmly believes that the student is no longer alive.


February 18, 2020 is a sad date for the family of Rebecca Reusch: on that day her “Becci” disappeared a year ago. The responsible public prosecutor explains in an interview why he firmly believes that the student is no longer alive.

  • Rebecca Reusch, then 15, has been missing since February 18, 2019.
  • The disappearance of the Berliner has been one of the most spectacular missing cases in recent years.
  • In the interview, the investigating prosecutor talks about why he's so sure that Rebecca is dead.

Update from February 17, 2020, 9.44 a.m .: A year has now passed since the Berlin student Rebecca Reusch disappeared on February 18 without a trace. The investigating prosecutor Martin Glage (54) is now certain that the then 15-year-old died in the house of her sister and brother-in-law (27) when she stayed there. In an interview with the Bild newspaper (payment barrier) he talks about the reasons for his acceptance. "This is the criminalistic experience that we have to take into account here." After the crime had been carried out a year ago and extensive investigations had been carried out, the investigators "had no hope that Rebecca was still alive," said Glage.

Investigators in the Rebecca case firmly convinced: schoolgirl died in her sister's house

Exactly what happened in the house of Rebecca's sister that night is the subject of the investigation. "But we still believe that she died in the house ," said the prosecutor. The brother-in-law, with whom Rebecca is said to have been alone in the house when she disappeared, is still under suspicion. There are several indications against him, his statement shows inconsistencies and contradictions.

When asked whether there might be a sexual motive behind it, Glage says: “It could be so. But that would be pure guesswork. We cannot say that. We simply don't know exactly what happened in that house. ”

Will Rebecca Reusch ever be found?

Glage can only speculate whether the student will ever be found. "I have ten more years of service if everything goes well with the public prosecutor here, and I actually intend to solve the case during this time, especially with the help of the homicide commission," the prosecutor hopes.

Glage has never seen a suspect outsmart all technology and mantrailer dogs and make a person disappear without a trace. In the case of the missing student, this could have several causes. "Either he's particularly skillful, he's incredibly lucky, or he's not the culprit," said Glage.

According to Glage, the search for Rebecca Reusch is not yet a so-called cold case . In any case, there is no such keyword in the Code of Criminal Procedure. If the case is given to a special investigation at some point, it will be searched in much larger and longer sections. "But we're not there yet," emphasizes the prosecutor.

Rebecca Reusch: expert restores her last cell phone video - does it bring the decisive turning point?

Update from February 14, 2020, 10.11 a.m .: One year after the disappearance of 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch, there are new developments for the first time in a long time. Her last sign of life was a WhatsApp voice message that she sent on the morning of her disappearance. Now more data could be saved from her cell phone.

As RTL reports, one of their technology experts, in collaboration with the family, was able to create a backup of their smartphone . The previously unpublished material was handed over to a police lawyer. Several photos and two videos were found in the data saved. Rebecca recorded the videos on the TikTok app. The popular Chinese video portal offers the possibility, as was once the case with the mini-playback show, to produce music clips to which you only have to move your lips and dance.

Rebecca's videos show her dancing to a remix of the song "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls. It was nice for the family to see the videos and photos. You can see how much fun she would have always had, Mother Brigitte explained to RTL in tears. Rebecca's sister Vivien has mixed feelings about the videos: “It is definitely very valuable, you have so little of the past few days, you weren't prepared for it. You look at it with a laughing eye on one side and a crying one on the other, but I'm very happy that we have it now. ”

Video: This is how the police search for missing persons works

In the videos , the then 15-year-old wore torn jeans. According to her mother, it was the same pants that Rebecca had on the day she disappeared. She hopes people can recognize her daughter. "It won't be the clothes after a year. And it will not be the hair length anymore and it is still in puberty - I do not know what it could look like now ... But maybe through the movement, the dancing, although it is a bit choppy . “So now the turnaround could be possible in the case that her family still dreams of. A witness might come forward who recognizes Rebecca with the new recordings.

You can see the recordings here at rtl.de.

Rebecca Reusch: A year ago the 15-year-old student disappeared - "Where are you at?"

First report from February 12, 2020:

Berlin - "Where are you at?", "What happened to you?": Half a year after Rebecca Reusch's disappearance, her sister Vivien posted a touching message on Instagram. But the Berlin woman has still not shown up. Even a year after "Becci" was reported missing, there was no trace of the then 15-year-old girl. To this day, users who want to encourage the family keep coming back to Vivien's Instagram account: “I'm so sorry for you. I hope it will be found and then you can live in peace again, ”writes one user. "May Rebecca return home!" - "May Rebecca come back home!" Posted an apparently English-speaking Instagram user. But if you are realistic, you know that with each passing day, the hope that Rebecca will be found alive disappears a bit.

Rebecca Reusch: The weekend before her disappearance she spent with her older sister

Check out this post on Instagram

16 balloons for you. 16 years of Becci. Your friends and family launched 16 balloons for you today. There is no day when we don't think of you, pray for you. We miss you so much. The pain is so unbearable. Where are you? What happened to you I love you so much my twinnie. ❤♾ You are missing ...

A post shared by Vivien Reusch (@viiiivaaa__) on Sep 21, 2019 at 12:48 pm PDT

Review: Rebecca is seen alive for the last time in the morning of February 18, 2019. The student, who was 15 at the time, had spent the weekend with her older sister Jessica (then 27) and her husband Florian R. in their house in Berlin's Neukölln district. Jessica leaves the house at around 7 a.m. because she wants to take the children to the day care center - her husband claims that after a company party she goes to bed to sleep. At around 7.15 a.m., Jessica asks her husband to wake Rebecca up because the 15-year-old has to go to school. When Florian R. enters the living room, Rebecca is not there. Because Rebecca doesn't show up at school either, her family reports the girl to the police as missing. At the same time, the relatives start a search for “Becci” .Rebecca's parents also appear on television and comment on the fate of their daughter.

Rebecca: A few days after her disappearance, the homicide squad takes over - her brother-in-law is arrested

But the search was unsuccessful: on February 21, the police issued an official missing person report to Rebecca Reusch, two days later the murder commission took over the case. Then the bang: On February 28, the police temporarily arrested Rebecca's brother-in-law Florian R. - but only three days later he was released. But the brother-in-law remains in the sights of the investigators: On March 3, Florian R.'s handcuffs click again - but again this time he has to be released shortly afterwards due to lack of urgent suspicion.

Every hint counts! #findbecci https://t.co/gA676Gr3bn pic.twitter.com/LNPY6dWzbE

- DPolG Berlin (@DPolGBerlin) February 27, 2019

"Case number XY": Even a broadcast on the missing person case "Rebecca" does not bring the hoped-for success

The legendary ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY" also takes on the "Rebecca" case - but here too the desired success is lacking. Rebecca's family not only suffers from her disappearance: hostilities keep coming up during the search, as Rebecca's mother Brigitte reports.

The chances of Rebecca reappearing alive are slim. But her family will continue to cling to every straw so as not to lose hope. Or as Rebecca's sister Vivien put it in her Instagram post: "There is no day we don't think about you, pray for you."

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Source: merkur

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