Torture murder of Bavarian researcher and his daughter in Paraguay: hideous details on the case

Tortured and executed: A well-known Bavarian researcher and his daughter were brutally murdered in Paraguay.

The investigators assume a robbery.

Update from November 2, 8:07 p.m.:

Old, blurry shots of Bernard von Bredow show a young man trudging through Schlick with the hope of finding gold in the Gerhartsreiter Graben near Siegsdorf. Instead, at the age of 16, he and a friend discovered the bone of a mammoth in the gorge. He kept the find, over 40,000 years old, a secret for ten years, but then everything came out through a leak. A whole skeleton is recovered, it changed the life of Bredows forever and made him a mammoth expert recognized worldwide.

Now the 62-year-old is dead, he was shot by robbers in the city of Areguá in Paraguay.

The still strangers also killed his 15-year-old daughter Loreena, who lived with him in his second home.

After the autopsy, it came out that the father had been tortured beforehand.

Forensic doctor Héctor Meza says: “The man was shot in the neck.

There are indications that he was previously tortured because of injuries to his face and bruises. ”The murder was like an execution.

Bredow's daughter was found dead in a full bathtub, she had been shot in the stomach and she was probably bleeding to death.

Bernard von Bredow's sensational find, which he called Oscar, can be seen in Siegsdorf

Bernard von Bredow's sensational find, which he called Oscar, can be admired in the Siegsdorf Natural History and Mammoth Museum in the Traunstein district. Two kilometers as the crow flies from the Natural History Museum, he ran his own exhibition in the “Mammutheum”. Here, among other things, 14,000 year old skeletons from the Siberian tundra were shown, cave bears and cave lions. Visitors were fascinated by Stone Age life and attended seminars.

This mammoth looked orphaned on Tuesday.

Neighbors report little contact with von Bredow, he was friendly, but somehow also in his own world.

This world was not only determined by prehistoric times, von Bredow made music, wrote songs, was skilled and skilled in handwork, built guitars and violins.

And his expertise about the Stone Age was in demand, for example by Hollywood for the production of the film “10 000 BC” by director Roland Emmerich.

For the blockbuster he created models, which he later regretted due to the lack of scientific accuracy of the "makers".

Four years ago, Bernard von Bredow emigrated to Paraguay with his daughter

Four years ago, Bernard von Bredow and his daughter emigrated to Paraguay. In Areguá on the border with Argentina, he and the teenager moved into a house that was still being worked on. Here he devoted himself to violin making and repairing, his passion. Acquaintances told the investigators that von Bredow did not have much money, but the murderers thought that there was wealth here. Inspector Hugo Grance, head of the homicide squad, said that “foreign nationals usually have large sums of money”.

At the scene of the crime, it looked like the killers had searched everything, there was total disorder.

The investigators are currently assuming that more than two perpetrators are possible.

Apparently they drove the already injured Bernard von Bredow through the house in search of valuables, as indicated by blood stains.

Close relatives who still live in Chiemgau mourn the two victims.

Update from November 2, 2:35 p.m.:

The gruesome murder of the Bavarian archaeologist Bernard von Bredow and his daughter in their adopted home Paraguay is also a concern of the German authorities.

The Foreign Office in Berlin confirmed the death of the two Germans on Tuesday (November 2).

The incident took place on October 22nd, and the local embassy took care of the case on a consular basis.

First report from November 2nd, 9.55 a.m .:

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

, 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

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

.

“Bernard was a genius”.

Nobody could explain that.

“Bernard had no enemies in Paraguay.

He was popular and admired because he was so educated. ”