A week after the discovery of a burned woman's body in Heinsberg investigators have arrested a suspect. For the difficult identification of the victims burned beyond recognition, investigators witnessed a surprise.
In women, did not relate as previously assumed, at a minimum 25-year-old, but a 64-year-old from Erkelenz in Heinsberg, said the prosecutor Moenchengladbach on Tuesday.
A walker found the body in a wooded area between Hückelhoven and Wassenberg. The homicide squad identified.
The 64-year-old woman was reported missing. But because the investigators had initially started from a young victim of violence, they are not the missing persons in the identification considered, "said prosecutor Carol Guddat.
Was increased only when the age of the victim further, there had been an adjustment with this Vermisstenfall. A DNA investigation revealed certain. Further investigations are "starting from the family environment have been stepped up."
No information about the suspects were taken. The prosecutor, however, proceeded from a speedy resolution of the case.