A married couple disappears without a trace.
The daughter who lives in Munich turns on the police, now investigators have found a body.
Laura P. and Peter N. (both 68) have been missing since January 4th.
Now South Tyrolean investigators came across a corpse.
The couple's son is considered suspect.
Update from February 6, 6:38 p.m.:
Has the tragic assumption been confirmed?
During a search operation in the Adige River, Italian police officers discovered the body of a woman this morning.
The river level was specially lowered for this.
The
stol.it
portal
reports on the deployment.
Possibly it could be the missing Laura P.
Investigators had previously discovered traces of blood from her husband, who had also disappeared, on a bridge railing on the Adige.
The police suspect that the suspected son (30) threw the corpses of his parents into the water there.
Benno N. was arrested on January 28 (see original report);
There are supposed to have been disputes within the family.
The arrested son was repeatedly aggressive, reports a friend.
Investigations of the seized body are currently ongoing.
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Married couple disappeared in South Tyrol: daughter living in Munich has bad suspicions?
Munich - There is a terrible suspicion: A young South Tyrolean is said to have
killed his parents
in Bolzano
and made the bodies disappear.
His
sister
, who lives
in Munich *
, got the murder investigation rolling.
The physician Madé N. (26), who is completing her specialist training in Munich, has a good relationship with her
parents Laura P. (68) and Peter N. (68)
, who live with her
brother Benno (30)
in an apartment building.
Parents and daughter have
regular WhatsApp * contact.
When they have not reported for 20 hours on January 4th, they call the
police
.
Married couple disappeared: traces of blood suggest violence
First of all, an
accident is assumed
.
The couple may have fallen into the Talfer while walking and drowned.
Traces of blood
in the parents' car and on the Adige Bridge in Pfatten south of Bolzano, which media reports indicate could be attributed to the father, suggest the
suspicion of an act of violence
.
Soon the son, who did not report his parents missing, comes into the
crosshairs of the investigators
.
Benno N. was the last person to see his parents in the apartment on Runkelsteiner Strasse in Bozen.
Married couple disappeared: suspect son provides a sketchy alibi
There are inconsistencies in his
statements
.
Benno N. is said to have arrived at his girlfriend Martina A.'s in Auer, south of Bozen, on the evening of January 4th at around 10:15 p.m., where he spent the night.
But 40 minutes are missing on his drive there in his parents' car.
He
claims to have
spent this
at a
fishing pond
.
The
investigators
doubt it.
On the night of Friday, Benno N., who is described by the South Tyrolean media as
“psychologically very unstable and impulsive”
, is arrested
by Peter
, according to Chief Public Prosecutor Giancarlo Bramante “on the basis of new investigative findings as a suspect for
double deliberate killing and concealment of the corpses
” N. and Laura P.
Taucher have been
looking for the dead in the ice-cold Etsch for days - so far without success.
Daughter Madé N. is desperate: “It pains me a lot to imagine that I have lost my mother and father at the age of 26 - at a time when I
shared my life with them every day
.
I want to
know
the
whole truth
about what happened that night - whatever the result, ”she told
Alto Adige
newspaper
.
(Johannes Welte) * tz.de and merkur.de are part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network
