For more than a week there has been no trace of Julia W. from Remshalden near Stuttgart. Emergency services have been looking intensively for days for the missing 16-year-old - and are now finding a corpse. It is not yet officially clear whether this is the young person.
Investigators discovered a body during a large-scale search for the missing 16-year-old from Remshalden near Stuttgart. The lifeless body was found in the area of the municipality of Lenningen. The police have not yet been able to confirm whether this is the missing Julia W. "You have to identify the person now," said the spokesman for the police headquarters in Aalen. The circumstances of death must also be determined first. However, several media reported that the lifeless body was the corpse of the missing person. According to the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", she wore the jacket with which she left her parents' house on January 24th.
Julia W. disappeared more than a week ago. She left her house at 6:30 a.m. last Tuesday, but instead of going to her school, she took the train to Kirchheim unter Teck. From there she boarded the Teckbahn in the direction of Lenningen. After that, their trail was lost. "According to our information, the missing person deliberately did not go to school on Tuesday - she probably told schoolmates that," said the police spokesman.
Most recently, the investigators had set up a so-called anonymous tip system, with the help of which witnesses can easily report via the Internet. A man was identified as a witness on Thursday, the spokesman said. He got on the train with the missing person and could possibly provide information about where the girl wanted to go. The person concerned is not a suspect.
So far, the Red Cross, a helicopter and the mountain rescue service have been looking for the 16-year-old for days on sometimes difficult terrain in vain. According to police information, a search operation between Kirchheim unter Teck and Oberlenningen was planned for Thursday - during this operation the officers found the previously unidentified body.
