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Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich has been missing for 26 years: New lead after a spectacular find in Upper Bavaria?

2021-11-24T11:29:48.583Z


26 years ago Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared from Munich without a trace. After a bone find in Upper Bavaria, is the case now about to be dissolved?


26 years ago Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared from Munich without a trace.

After a bone find in Upper Bavaria, is the case now about to be dissolved?

Update from November 23, 2:45 p.m.:

The bones of Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich, who had been missing since 1995, were found in a forest in Upper Bavaria

(see original report)

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Can now - more after a quarter of a century - the fate of the young woman still be cleared up?

Little by little, more and more details become public.

Sonja Engelbrecht is missing: Was Munich a victim of a violent crime?

Police officers are currently searching the forest about 100 kilometers north of Munich for further remains of the woman. No statement can currently be made about the cause of death, says a police spokesman. One suspects, however, that Engelbrecht fell victim to a violent crime.



As the spokesman confirmed, a forest worker found the bone as early as the summer of 2020. Because the technical possibilities for typing DNA material were constantly developing, the body part could finally be assigned to Sonja Engelbrecht, who has been missing for 26 years.



In April 1995, the then 19-year-old disappeared.

According to the police, her partner at the time had last seen her at night at the Munich tram stop at Stiglmaierplatz.

Thereafter there was speculation that the young woman might have been kidnapped and killed or sold to human traffickers.

The missing person case was not cleared up at the time.

"Bild" initially reported on the bones found near Kipfenberg.

Original article dated November 23:

Munich / Kipfenberg - Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich has been missing for 26 years.

Now the case is moving again - and there is sad news: bones have been discovered in a forest near Kipfenberg, in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt.

Presumably these are the remains of the missing Munich woman.

Missing Sonja Engelbrecht from Munich: After bone discovery - police operation is underway

A spokesman for the Munich police has now also confirmed: “A major operation is currently underway in Kipfenberg in Upper Bavaria.

A human bone was found there that could be assigned to the missing Sonja Engelbrecht. "Now investigators are looking for further remains of the woman.

Brief review: Sonja Engelbrecht disappeared in 1995 at the age of 19.

She was last seen alive


on Stiglmaierplatz in Munich.

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(kof / dpa)

Source: merkur

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