Two women – mother and daughter – were apparently killed in Germany in order to take the younger one’s child. According to the public prosecutor’s office, the two suspects in North Baden are a married couple. The 43-year-old man and his 44-year-old wife came from Sandhausen, a small town south of Heidelberg, the Mannheim public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. It is therefore a German couple.
According to police, the two suspects have not yet commented on the allegations. On Wednesday, the public prosecutor’s office and the police announced that after almost two weeks of intensive searching, they had recovered the body of the 51-year-old mother from a fishing lake near Bad Schönborn (Karlsruhe district).
27-year-old found dead on the banks of the Rhine
At the beginning of March, the body of the woman’s 27-year-old daughter was discovered on the banks of the Rhine near Hockenheim. The young woman’s baby was found unharmed by the couple from Sandhausen last week. The couple has been in custody ever since. According to investigators, the six-week-old girl remains in the care of the youth welfare office. Neither the public prosecutor nor the police have commented on the baby’s father. Police spokesman Stefan Wilhelm simply said: “The possible father of the child is not suspected of committing the crime.”
The horrific acts are said to have taken place near Hockenheim:
According to the announcement on Wednesday, the suspects come from the personal environment of those killed. There is therefore an urgent suspicion of “communal treacherous murder to cover up a crime” in two cases. According to their own statements, the investigators assume that the two killed the baby’s grandmother on the evening of March 6th and the baby’s mother a few hours later.
The “Bild” newspaper reported at the weekend that the suspects had been telling neighbors and work colleagues over the past few months about the supposedly imminent birth of their own daughter. They are said to have killed the 27-year-old in order to pass the baby off as theirs. However, neither the police nor the public prosecutor’s office have yet commented on the couple’s possible motive.
