One man kept his dead partner in a plastic bag for months. The verdict has now been passed at the regional court in Offenburg.
Offenburg – Scenes like from a horror film took place in a residential building in Offenburg. During a relationship dispute, the situation apparently escalated to such an extent that a 71-year-old was apparently accidentally killed by her partner. Instead of reporting the woman’s death to the police, the man hid the body for months in a plastic bag in the shared apartment. When confronted with skeptical neighbors, he kept coming up with new excuses for the woman’s disappearance.
Yesterday, Wednesday, June 30, the verdict was passed in Offenburg, the regional court announced, according to the German Press Agency (dpa). The 66-year-old has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in 23 cases for willful assault and computer fraud.
Offenburg: Woman disappears without a trace in August 2020 – neighbors are skeptical
It all started last year when the man moved in with his partner. When the woman suddenly disappeared without a trace in August and the neighbors no longer saw the 71-year-old, they became skeptical and asked the 66-year-old about his partner. According to the dpa , he kept inventing new excuses. The woman had had an operation and was in the hospital or she was on a trip and the return flight was canceled, he told the neighbors. Before the partner disappears, the neighbors report violent arguments between the couple.
A dispute in which there were fights between the man and the partner allegedly led to the death of the woman in August 2020. According to the Badische Zeitung , the 66-year-old choked the woman and then either suffocated her or she fell and hit her head. At the court hearing, the Offenburg public prosecutor accused the defendant of strangling his partner last year, whereupon she fell and died, reports the dpa . Due to the severely decomposed state of the corpse, it was no longer possible to determine the exact cause of death.
Man hides corpse in plastic bag: verdict in Offenburg
The man from Offenburg kept the body of his partner in a plastic bag for several months and did not tell anyone about the incident. After the body was discovered, the 66-year-old told the police that the 71-year-old had unintentionally died in an argument, as reported by the Badische Zeitung . However, the indictment stated that the woman’s death as a result of the altercation was “predictable and avoidable”. In the time after the death of the 71-year-old, the convicted person is said to have withdrawn a total of 18,000 euros from the dead man’s bank account with a debit card.
On Wednesday, the 66-year-old was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for bodily harm resulting in death and computer fraud in 23 cases. Both police witnesses and neighbors were questioned at the trial. In addition, the regional court called in a psychiatric expert and an expert in forensic medicine, reports the Badische Zeitung .
Last year, a woman’s body was also found in an apartment in Stuttgart. The police got on the track of an oppressive family drama (BW24 * reported). A few months later, another frightening discovery was made in Baden-Württemberg. A corpse was lying in the middle of the sidewalk in Tuttlingen *. A little later, the police arrested a 36-year-old who had just been released from custody. * BW24 is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
