It was only eight months after the body of a woman was found in a canal in the Netherlands that the victim could be identified using a missing persons report. Her ex-partner, who moved to Spain, quickly becomes the focus of the investigators. During a visit to Solingen, they strike.
About a year after a woman's body was found in a canal in the Netherlands, investigators arrested a suspect. The woman's former partner is suspected of having killed the woman from Solingen, according to the public prosecutor in Wuppertal. He is now in custody.
Investigators were only able to identify the victim in May of this year, around eight months after the body was found. In the course of the investigation, the 63-year-old former partner of the woman was targeted by the investigators. According to the police, the man, who was temporarily living in Spain, was arrested during a visit to Solingen. Further investigations continued.
The Solingen woman's body was found on September 28 last year in a canal near Roermond, not far from the border with Germany, according to the public prosecutor's office and the police in Wuppertal in May. The identity of the victim initially remained unclear. It was only when a cousin of the Solingen woman was reported missing that the woman's disappearance was linked to the body found in the Netherlands.
