Munich's biggest murder mystery - where the police are still groping in the dark

Created: 11/30/2022, 7:37 am

By: Nadja Hoffmann

Mother and daughter missing: the police were looking for Maria and Tatiana Gertsuski in the Truderinger Forest.

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In many of these cases, the police are still completely in the dark: the overview of Munich's unsolved murder cases.

10,000 euros reward in the murder of Kristian Kramberger

The Munich police headquarters has been investigating the murder of Kristian Kramberger for a year now.

However, it is still completely unclear who killed the 49-year-old on November 5, 2021.

The Croatian's body was found in his apartment on Leonrodstrasse - but only days after the bloody crime.

Kramberger has been killed.

A renewed call for witnesses at the beginning of November brought little new information to the police.

And further no hot lead.

Anyone who helps to solve the crime with their tip gets a reward: 10,000 euros.

Take off to Afghanistan

The reward for the murder of women in Perlach, which shocked the city in November 2020, is just as high.

Benafsha M. (34) was found dead under the bed of one of her children: covered with stab wounds in her upper body.

Her husband Abdul Mohammad Tukhi has been on the run for two years.

He was already seen at the main train station on the day the victim's mother reported missing.

He had enough time to escape.

The corpse was only found three days later: only on their fourth visit to the apartment did the investigators discover Benafsha M.'s lifeless body in the bed box.

The police assume that the 43-year-old fled from Munich to his native Afghanistan.

This makes the investigators' work much more difficult.

Circumstantial trial without bodies

The police must also hope for a stroke of luck or a coincidence in order to finally be able to put the bloody deeds in Ramersdorf on the record.

Because the perpetrator is silent.

The conviction of Roman H. in February 2021 made headlines as a murder trial without bodies.

The warehouse clerk went to prison for 14.6 years.

The court found it proven that he first struck his wife Maria Gertsuski on the head with blunt force.

When stepdaughter Tatiana came home from school, he then murdered the unwanted witness.

The women were last seen alive on July 13, 2019.

Roman H. claimed at the time that they went shopping and never returned.

To this day there is no trace of them.

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The turning point in the Engelbrecht case

It took 27 years before the question of Sonja Engelbrecht's whereabouts could be clarified in the murder case.

The remains of the Munich woman, who disappeared in 1995 at the age of 19, were found in a forest in the Altmühltal.

Now the investigators are hoping for clues that Sonja's bones could give.

"But the forensic investigations are still ongoing," says police spokesman Werner Kraus.

So far, this has not resulted in any hot leads, such as a DNA find.

1179 references to the Isar murder

The situation with the so-called Isar murder is similar: Even nine years after the bloody deed, there are many question marks in this case, but no answers.

On May 28, 2013, an unknown stabbed Domenico L. in the heart.

The 31-year-old had cycled with his girlfriend on the Isar.

At the level of the European Patent Office, a man blocked the couple and spat at Domenico's girlfriend.

Then the attack followed.

1,179 tips have already been received by the Munich police, 16,000 people and 5,700 saliva samples have been checked.

Without success.

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Parking garage murder back in court?

The parking garage murder is one of the most sensational criminal cases of the past 25 years.

Also because the crime was followed by circumstantial evidence: 14 years ago, Benedikt T. received life imprisonment for the murder of his aunt Charlotte Böhringer – noting the particular severity of the guilt: 24 brutal blows to the head.

T. maintains to this day that he is innocent.

Doubts about the verdict have been raised again and again for 14 years.

Now, for the third time, the process is being rolled up.

T's lawyer Peter Witting has applied to the Munich I public prosecutor's office for a retrial and a new main hearing.

On 375 pages, the lawyer describes findings from new criminal reports.

They are intended to show that the crime cannot have taken place as determined by the court.

There are also doubts about the determination of the time of the crime - which put the alibis of the people questioned in a new light.

In addition, the statements of two witnesses are in question.

The decision on the reopening lies with the Augsburg Regional Court, which had rejected previous applications in 2012 and 2019.

Recently, a new, steadily growing circle of supporters for Benedikt T. was founded, which includes Munich's former mayor Christian Ude and the politician Claudia Stamm.

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