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Missing Rebecca: Journalists reopen the case - and publish previously unknown material

2020-12-02T23:54:48.477Z


Since February 2019 there has been no trace of the missing Rebecca Reusch from Berlin. Two journalists publish previously unknown material.


Since February 2019 there has been no trace of the missing Rebecca Reusch from Berlin.

Two journalists publish previously unknown material.

Berlin - Since February 18, 2019 there has been no trace of Rebecca Reusch from Berlin, has the

student become a victim of a crime

?

Investigators initially suspected the girl's brother-in-law

, but the Berliner had to be released from custody after a short time.

Two

journalists are

now reopening the case, and the two young women are even publishing

new details about the case

in a podcast

.

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The police are still looking for Rebecca Reusch.

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Rebecca Reusch from Berlin misses: Journalists publish previously unknown details

In episode one of the podcast

“In the Dark.

The Rebecca Reusch case ”

, the two journalists report first of the day of the then 15-year-old student.

Rebecca had therefore spent a "nurses' evening" with her sister the evening before she disappeared, and a selfie was sent to a cousin shortly before they went to sleep.

Lena Niethammer

and

Miriam Arndts spent 

nine months researching

the

Rebecca Reusch case

, and the podcast was adorned with new dramatic details.

These are the journalists behind the podcast

Both journalists say they work for large media companies.

Miriam Arndts therefore mainly produces for ARD.

Lena Niethammer writes as a freelance writer for Spiegel, Die Zeit and SZ-Magazin, among others.

In the course of the research, a friend of the missing Rebecca Reusch commented.

16-year-old Aileen firmly believes that her friend is still alive.

Aileen

and

Rebecca are part of a clique,

and the girls meet in front of school every morning.

But since Rebecca only had lessons in the third lesson, friend Aileen is not surprised at her friend's absence.

Rebecca Reusch misses: Podcast reports on details - cousin also speaks out

Aileen only found out about

her friend's disappearance

after school

.

The 15-year-old's cousin called her in the afternoon.

But the student was not yet very worried at this point.

Rebecca Reusch's

cousin

, on the other hand, was directly concerned about the 15-year-old, after all, it was unusual for Rebecca not to be online for hours.

The

schoolgirl's family

alerted

the police that

afternoon

.

It was immediately noticed that the 15-year-old's belongings had disappeared.

Clothes, a bag, your wallet and your camera.

At least that's

what

the

cousin of the missing Rebecca Reusch

reports

.

The

journalists of the podcast “In the dark.

The Rebecca Reusch case ”also

meet the spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor,

Martin Steltner

, in the course of their research

.

“He's still suspicious.

But there is no requirement for an arrest warrant, ”Steltner confirms in an interview with the two young women.

This means

the brother-in-law of the missing student Rebecca Reusch.

The young man had to sit in custody for more than two weeks in 2019.

To generate clues, photos of him and his car were even released to the public.

Berliner Rebecca Reusch is missing: the brother-in-law?

Is there already a hot lead?

Chief

Detective Ulrike Rohloff

from the

LKA also

spoke to the makers of the podcast, but the two journalists learned a really interesting detail from a colleague from Rohloff.

In the corridor, while talking to the commissioner, the two women met their colleague by chance.

After Niethammer and Arndts first explain their concern, the man who is not mentioned by name in the podcast explains rather casually: “It's such a tricky situation.

Everyone knows who it was, or they think they know who it was, but you just can't ... ”, explains the colleague of the chief detective.

The journalists publish the statement in the original sound in the podcast.

Who exactly the investigator means by this statement remains unclear. 

As the journalists explain in the podcast, the

relatives of the missing Rebecca Reusch

continue to support the suspect.

“There is evidence that Rebecca was in the house and that there was a homicide here in the house.

There is no

evidence

that she left the house alive with her belongings, ”explains Steltner at first.

Accordingly, the router and the girl's phone behavior were evaluated.

Investigators are of the opinion that the girl could not have left the house alive.

However

, Steltner could not reveal

which

clues the investigators had

discovered.

Rebecca Reusch is missing: What exactly happened the morning she disappeared?

However, it remains unclear what exactly happened on the morning of the

disappearance

.

As the two journalists claim to have found out, Rebecca Reusch's cell phone logged into the router of her sister's house between six and eight in the morning.

But when the mother of the student wanted to call her daughter shortly after seven and again at 8.25 a.m., the mailbox jumped directly, so the cell phone was apparently switched off.

Shortly afterwards, the

mother

called

the girl's brother-in-law

, who was still in bed at this time after a Christmas party.

But Florian R. did not respond to the first call, but called back shortly afterwards.

When the young man

looked

after Rebecca

in the

living room

, the girl is said to have left the house.

Rebecca Reusch misses: Investigators can evidently prove a lie

But that's not all, the two journalists also want to know that the suspected brother-in-law could be proven to have been a lie.

Accordingly, Rebecca's sister's husband claimed to be asleep that morning.

But as the two young women

want to have confirmed

by

"several people with access to files"

, the young man is said to have watched porn that morning.

This has been proven to the cook.

Investigators are therefore sure that the young man then went to

Rebecca

, the girl is said to have died.

In order to cover up his deed, he initially did not call his mother-in-law back.

However, investigators can

not

prove their

suspicions

.

The girl's brother-in-law is said to have remained silent about these suspicions during the interrogations.

Rebecca Reusch from Berlin is missing: the student apparently sent one last photo in the morning

However, a

friend of Rebecca Reusch

told the journalists that the 15-year-old had sent her a photo that morning.

The student photographed herself in her outfit in front of the mirror.

The girlfriend still wondered why Rebecca got up so early.

After all, both of them should have been at school at 9.50 a.m.

However, Rebecca did not respond to the answer that the friend immediately sent her.

The "Snap", a message in

the "Snapchat" app,

was not even

read

by

Rebecca

.

The message must have been sent before 8:30 a.m.

But although the missing Rebecca Reusch was already wearing her jacket on this snapshot, investigators cannot prove whether the girl could actually have left the house.

The

new episodes of the podcast should now be published every Tuesday

.

However, it remains unclear whether the student's disappearance can still be clarified.

A student from North Rhine-Westphalia is also missing.

The 26-year-old disappeared while hiking alone through the Black Forest.

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Source: merkur

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