The case is as puzzling as it is shocking. The corpse of a small child, wrapped and buried with a stone, floats in the Danube for weeks. The boy doesn't seem to be missed by anyone. But the investigators are not giving up.
Ingolstadt (dpa / lby) - More than six months after the discovery of a child's corpse in the Danube in Upper Bavaria, the criminal police is working with the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). As a result, starting this Thursday, digital information screens nationwide, which otherwise show advertising, among other things, will also be used to publish a wanted poster. In addition, the BKA wants to draw attention to the case on social networks. In this way, all possibilities should once again be exhausted to obtain information about the unknown boy, said police spokesman Michael Graf from the police headquarters in Ingolstadt.
The body of the preschool boy was found in May 2022 by a canoeist at a barrage near Vohburg an der Donau (Pfaffenhofen district). The identity and the cause of death are still unclear. It is suspected that the child was killed. Because the dead boy had been packed up and sunk in the river with a stone. The body had been in the water for a long time, possibly several months, when it was discovered.
In the fall, a specialist forensic pathologist then reconstructed the face of the unknown boy. The investigators were also able to publish further details about the victim. The child was between three and seven years old, 110 centimeters tall, weighed around 15 kilos and had blue eyes and dark blond to brown hair.
At the beginning of December, the case was presented in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved". After the TV manhunt, 63 tips were received by the CID investigative team. Graf explained that there were indications of missing children from Germany and neighboring countries. Most of the cases were already known and had already been ruled out.
There were also references to the stone with which the child's body was sunk. "Unfortunately, the big breakthrough isn't there yet," said Graf. However, some indications still need to be checked. The police had offered a reward of 10,000 euros for information from witnesses that would lead to clarification of the case.
