Can the case of the dead student from Baden-Württemberg finally be clarified?
After visiting her parents, 26-year-old Eva Götz is found dead.
There is no trace of her killer.
Freiburg – For more than 25 years, the crime against the then 26-year-old Eva Götz from Freiburg has been considered unsolved, now investigators are reopening the case publicly on TV.
The student did not return from a weekend trip, her body was found on a country road.
There is still no trace of the perpetrator.
Now the act from Baden-Württemberg is to be rolled out again, with the help of the ZDF program Aktenzeichen XY.
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"We want to use the program to bring back memories of what happened after such a long time," said a spokesman in the run-up to the program on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. The crime against the Freiburg biology student is to be addressed in a short film.
The investigators are hoping for new clues in the unsolved murder case, the police said.
On Friday, January 25, 1997, Eva Götz drove to her parents in Landau in the Palatinate, on Sunday evening the young woman took the train back to Freiburg.
As the ZDF broadcast announced in the run-up to the TV show, Eva Götz met a young man on the journey between Landau and Karlsruhe, who got off in Karlsruhe.
At 9:08 p.m., she then switched to the IC503 in the direction of Freiburg and was probably on her way to her shared student flat at her destination.
Residents heard screams, student found dead on country road shortly thereafter
In the Stefan-Meier-Straße, residents are said to have heard screams around 9:15 p.m. that a light-beige, older van had been noticed.
This is said to have returned again and again from 4 p.m. in the afternoon.
A similar car is said to have been noticed in the Tuttlingen district from 11 p.m., most recently at around 2.30 a.m. on a dirt road.
6 hours later a truck driver finds the dead mare.
The body of 26-year-old Eva Götz was found on January 27, 1997 on a country road near Leipferdingen in the Tuttlingen district.
According to the Rottweil public prosecutor, the student was probably dragged into a car on her way home in Freiburg, in which she may have been killed.
There is still no trace of the perpetrator.
Now the detectives are hoping for new clues about the crime or possible other victims.
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As the ZDF broadcast announced in advance, a DNA trace was found in the course of the investigation.
The student's personal belongings are said to have been left behind in the perpetrator's car.
The coming weeks will show whether TV viewers can actually provide the decisive clue in the Eva Götz case.
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