Even after nine months, the murder of a little boy is still unsolved. The wrapped body was discovered in the Danube near Ingolstadt. The child is still nowhere missing, but the police are looking for a needle in a haystack.
Ingolstadt (dpa / lby) - Nine months after the discovery of a child's corpse in the Danube, the Ingolstadt criminal police are still processing a number of tips from the population. Most recently, the investigators, together with the Federal Criminal Police Office, published the reconstructed image of the dead boy on information screens throughout Germany and asked for information.
A whole series of tips came from all over Germany after the action, said police spokesman Andreas Aichele. "But it wasn't the one who would have helped us immediately." There are small investigative approaches that are being followed up. "We are currently working with many files and interrogations."
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 lay in the water for a long time.
In the fall, a specialist forensic pathologist reconstructed the face of the unknown boy. The case was then presented in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved". According to the investigation, the child was between three and seven years old, 110 centimeters tall, weighed around 15 kilograms and had blue eyes and dark blond to brown hair.
The police spokesman emphasizes that the case is being worked on with energy. "We're still digging the haystack properly in search of the needle." So far, however, there is no evidence that witnesses would have recognized the boy directly. Rather, references to children who had not been seen for a long time were received.
The criminal police assumes that the dead child comes from another area. "We are relatively sure that it does not come directly from the region," said Aichele. In Bavaria, early detection and school enrollment examinations are also mandatory, which the boy should have attended. "The child would not fall through the cracks."
Ultimately, the investigative team of the Ingolstadt criminal police is looking for the perpetrator across Europe. One theory is that the wrapped child's body could have been thrown into the river from a bridge on the busy Autobahn 9 (Munich-Nuremberg). There are no concrete traces of this, such as injuries to the body. "We can't prove it," says the police spokesman about the thesis.
