Status: 27.10.2023, 19:08 PM
By: Kathrin Reikowski
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The body of Anna S. from Gelsenkirchen was found: The 35-year-old had been missing since June 23, 2019. © Police Gelsenkirchen
Anna S. from Gelsenkirchen had been missing since June 2019. Although her killer has since been convicted, there has been no trace of her body. Now she was discovered walled up in the basement.
Krefeld (NRW) - Late certainty for the family of Anna S.: The body of the nanny from Gelsenkirchen, who had been missing for three years, was found on Monday, walled up in the basement of her murderer.
Six months after the disappearance of the 35-year-old, the police caught a 46-year-old Gelsenkirchen man as a suspect. He has since been convicted as a murderer and is in custody. Anna S.'s brother-in-law had spoken to Merkur.de about the police investigation.
Krefeld: Woman's body found in cellar - missing Anna S. had been killed by ex-boyfriend
The autopsy on Tuesday showed beyond doubt that the body found in the basement was Anna S., police and prosecutors in Essen said. The Gelsenkirchen woman was presumably suffocated. The discovery of Anna S.'s body no longer had any effect on the case, her murderer is already in custody.
The investigators had come across Anna S.'s ex-boyfriend and had later found pictures of the dead on his computer. On it, the murder victim had been seen in the apartment of the perpetrator. In addition, the man had searched the Internet for the topics of "suffocation" and "corpse smell". According to the conviction of the Essen judges, the man had killed his ex-girlfriend because he could not come to terms with the fact that she had broken up with him. For this, he was sentenced to the maximum sentence: life imprisonment with special gravity of guilt and subsequent preventive detention.
Krefeld: Woman's body walled up in the cellar - Anna S. was not the first victim
The man had already been in prison for the murder of a woman, and then met Anna S. six months after his release from prison. According to the investigation, the woman had broken up with him when she learned of her partner's life lies.
"He is completely devoid of empathy and has no sense of guilt. For him, it is normal that he is allowed to kill the women who want to separate from him," the presiding judge in Essen had said at the sentencing in December 2020. "The danger for any woman who gets involved with the defendant of being killed sooner or later is obvious."
Why the body was only discovered almost three years later in the murderer's home, despite extensive search measures, the Essen public prosecutor's office did not want to say on Tuesday. She did not want to confirm that it was a caretaker who gave the decisive clue. The authority did not give reasons for this. (dpa/kat)