“Aktenzeichen XY”: Wolfgang Knoll (45) wanted to go to the University Hospital in Göttingen – but never got there
Created: 08/05/2022, 21:03
The program "Aktenzeichen XY" shows the case of Wolfgang Knoll, who has been missing since 1997.
The man is expected at the University Hospital in Göttingen, but never arrives.
What became of him?
Holzminden – Wolfgang Knoll is reported missing on April 14, 1997.
At the time he was acutely ill and should have started therapy at the University Hospital in Göttingen at the end of February of the same year.
Now the special commission "Cold Case" of the Göttingen police has started the investigation more than 25 years after the disappearance of the then 45-year-old missing person, as reported by hna.de.
The unsolved case of the missing man from Holzminden in Lower Saxony was the subject of the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved" on Wednesday (08/03/2022).
The police hoped for new clues in the previously unsolved case and received them: "We have received clues in the lower double-digit range, which are now being evaluated," said a police spokeswoman.
ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY": Missing Wolfgang Knoll never arrived at the University Hospital in Göttingen
Wolfgang Knoll has been missing since 1997.
The then 45-year-old was on his way from Holzminden to the University Hospital in Göttingen.
What happened to the man who had previously served a long prison sentence for a homicide?
© Police Goettingen
Ultimately, Knoll never arrived at the Göttingen University Hospital, as the police announced at the time.
He was last seen by an acquaintance on February 23.
As a result, the police officers at Knoll's place of residence in the Neuhaus district of Holzminden and in the personal environment of the missing person.
The officials did not want to rule out a homicide at the time.
According to the police, the man had been serving a long prison sentence for a homicide before his disappearance.
The question arose as to whether there was a connection between the crime and the disappearance of Wolfgang Knoll, even if there was ultimately no concrete evidence of this.
The police and public prosecutor's office are hoping for helpful information from the population
According to the information, Knoll had very few social contacts.
The investigation was dropped in 2004 with no information about the circumstances of the man's disappearance or his whereabouts.
The special commission "Cold Case" and the responsible public prosecutor's office in Hildesheim found no further clues and are now hoping for help from the population.
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The program "Aktenzeichen XY...unsolved" deals with a cold case from the region: Wolfgang Knoll disappeared in 1997 on the way to the University Hospital in Göttingen.
(Iconic image) © picture alliance/Matthias Balk/dpa
You can see the complete Aktenzeichen XY episode from Wednesday, August 3, 2022 in the ZDF online media library.
(rdg, with dpa material)
Another cold case from Lower Saxony: An unknown stabbed Gitta Schnieder to death in the Harburg district in 1989, the police are now investigating.
The case of a murderer who was up to mischief in southern Lower Saxony and northern Hesse until 2015 was also the subject of "Aktenzeichen XY".