Walkers find a woman's body in the forest - identity still unclear
Created: 01/18/2022 10:41 am
By: Peter Schiebel
The forest near Berg was still cordoned off by the police on Monday with plastic tape.
© Peter Schiebel
In the forest east of Berg, walkers found the remains of a woman on Sunday afternoon.
Their identity was still unclear on Monday.
The Kripo assumes a "non-natural death".
Update, January 17, 6:26 p.m .:
Two walkers make their rounds, a pensioner is on the move with hiking sticks. Everything is peaceful on Monday morning and apparently the same as always in the wooded area near St. Anne's Chapel in the east of Berg, at the end of the chapel path. Only the red and white warning tape with the inscription "Polizeiabsperre" across the path to the left of the chapel does not fit into the idyll. Along this path, walkers made a horrifying discovery on Sunday afternoon: around 4:30 p.m. they found “a partially skeletonized female corpse,” as the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria North announced on Monday.
The group of walkers had been out with a dog that had picked up the scent, explained chief prosecutor Andrea Mayer from the Munich II public prosecutor's office on request.
Where exactly the body lay, how far from the path, whether it was covered with branches or otherwise hidden – Mayer did not want to comment on that.
According to information from Starnberger Merkur, the site is said to be a few hundred meters after the chapel.
Woman's body in the forest near Berg: the police assume violent crimes
It appears to be a violent crime. "The Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police assumes that the death was not natural," said the Bureau. Numerous emergency services secured tracks at the site well into the night on Sunday. Comrades from the Berg volunteer fire brigade were called in to help illuminate the spot in the forest with their spotlights.
The firefighters were on duty until midnight, as Berg's commander Bastian Sandbichler explained. He said he had selected specially experienced personnel for the assignment. In addition, there were situation and team meetings before, during and after the operation. A total of seven comrades were deployed, who would have replaced each other due to the length of the deployment. The fire brigade illuminated the area both from the vehicle and with portable spotlights. The crisis intervention team of the BRK district association was also deployed. It looked after the three witnesses.
The body was autopsied on Sunday evening at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich "to obtain more information about the circumstances of death," according to the police.
The result was available yesterday – however, senior public prosecutor Mayer did not want to comment on it, nor on the probable length of time the corpse had been lying and the possible age of the woman.
Mayer referred to "investigative tactical reasons".
The authorities' reluctance was also due to the fact that the woman's identity was still unclear on Monday afternoon.
"We don't know that much yet," Mayer admitted.
"It was only 24 hours ago."
Berg's mayor Rupert Steigenberger is shocked
Berg's mayor Rupert Steigenberger was shocked.
"It's very depressing," he said.
"Even if we don't yet know whether it has anything to do with the community." If it is actually a crime, the spot in the forest may have been used by the perpetrator or perpetrators simply as a storage location and the crime itself themselves have played somewhere else.
So far, much has been speculation in which he does not want to participate, said Steigenberger.
Berg's evangelical pastor Johannes Habdank, whose vicarage is only a few hundred meters away from where they were found, was not aware of what happened on Sunday.
However, the mere idea affected him.
"Of course it's horrible," he said in an interview with Starnberger Merkur.
First report from January 17th: corpse discovered in the forest near Lake Starnberg - details still unclear - criminal investigator determined
Berg - Walkers found a partially skeletonized human body in a wooded area east of Berg on Sunday afternoon.
The Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police have taken over the investigation.
According to the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria North, she assumes "an unnatural death".
Body found in the district of Starnberg: Kripo determined - identity still unclear
An autopsy was carried out by the Institute for Forensic Medicine on Sunday evening in order to obtain more detailed information on the circumstances of death.
The identity of the deceased woman is still unclear.
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