In the search for the girl from Remshalden near Stuttgart, who has been missing for a week, the investigators come across a female corpse. Is it the missing 16-year-old?
Lenningen (dpa / lsw) – During a large-scale search for the missing 16-year-old girl from Remshalden (Rems-Murr district), investigators discovered a body on Thursday. The lifeless body was found in the area of ??the municipality of Lenningen (Esslingen district). Investigators have not yet confirmed whether it is the missing person. “You have to identify the person now,” said the spokesman for the police headquarters in Aalen in the afternoon. The circumstances of death must also be determined first.
As the police headquarters in Reutlingen and the public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart announced on Thursday evening, it is a female body. A special commission with 35 officers was set up to clarify the circumstances of death. The identification is still pending. In the evening, neither the police nor the public prosecutor’s office wanted to confirm whether the body found was the 16-year-old.
The teenager had disappeared over a week ago. She left her parents’ house on January 24, 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 pending on Thursday – during this operation, the officials then found the previously unidentified body.
