Tortured and executed: A well-known Bavarian researcher and his daughter were brutally murdered in Paraguay.
The investigators assume a robbery.
Areguá / Siegsdorf - The well-known archaeologist Bernard von Bredow was murdered.
For several years he lived with his daughter in Areguá in Paraguay.
According to the local newspaper
Ultima Hora
, a relative discovered the body of the man and that of his 14-year-old daughter in their home.
The two were brutally murdered.
There were blood stains everywhere.
The researcher was even tortured before his death, the coroner said to the newspaper.
He was then brought to his knees and shot in the neck.
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Torture murder of a Bavarian researcher in Paraguay: Investigators assume robbery
The well-known researcher's daughter probably died from a gunshot wound in the stomach.
She was not tortured.
However, the coroner assumes that the 14-year-old was shot in a different location.
The perpetrators then put the body in the bathtub.
Since the house was searched "from top to bottom", the local investigators assume a robbery, as the head of the homicide squad
Ultima Hora
explained.
Surveillance cameras are installed on the site, and attempts are currently being made to identify the perpetrators.
Friends of the researcher cannot explain the terrible fact
Bredow was best known for the discovery of a mammoth skeleton.
Born in Bavaria (Traunstein district *), he found the remains of the colossus in 1975 at the age of only 16 not far from his parents' house in Siegsdorf.
The researcher later built violins and violins.
"We are devastated," says a family friend of the
picture
.
“Bernard was a genius”.
Nobody could explain that.
“Bernard had no enemies in Paraguay.
He was popular and admired because he was so educated. ”
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