Case of dead boy from the Danube still unsolved - search for witnesses all over Germany
Created: 2023-01-09 06:52
By: Katarina Amtmann
In May 2022, a child's body was recovered from the Danube in Bavaria.
The identity of the boy is unclear, but the police are still looking - now throughout Germany.
Ingolstadt - In May, a canoeist found a child's corpse in the Danube near Ingolstadt.
The case is still a mystery more than half a year later.
Children's corpses in the Danube - investigators reconstruct the face
Because the identity of the child could not be clarified so far.
On behalf of the Ingolstadt public prosecutor's office, the child's face was reconstructed by forensic pathologists.
"Scientific findings allow well-founded conclusions to be drawn, based on the individual head shape, about the actual appearance during one's lifetime," said the November press release.
The police are looking for information about the dead boy - now on information screens at train stations.
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Child's corpse found in the Danube - description of the boy
The investigators also provided a description at the time:
between 3 and 7 years old
110cm tall
about 15 kg heavy
blue eyes
dark blonde to brown hair
Unsolved case from Bavaria at "Aktenzeichen XY" - BKA helps
In December, the case was then shown on the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY...unsolved", and there were numerous indications afterwards.
Now the officials are also receiving support from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).
From Thursday, January 5th, digital information screens (such as at train stations) are to be used throughout Germany for the case.
This is reported by the
Bayerischer Rundfunk.
In addition, the media of the BKA are used to draw attention to the case again.
This includes the website and social media of the authority.
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