Overview
- Witnesses found a lifeless 37-year-old man on a pedestrian connector in Osterode early Saturday and emergency services confirmed his death at the scene.
- Police say the body bore numerous injuries that indicate a violent crime and they are withholding specific details for investigative reasons.
- Officers sealed off the area and forensic teams with police dog handlers processed the scene before a mortician removed the body at about 13:00.
- Investigators secured a small car on Sösepromenade that they believe is connected to the case and collected traces from the vehicle; the river Söse separates the car’s street from the woods where the body was found.
- Authorities from Polizei Osterode and Göttingen are interviewing residents, asking anyone who saw suspicious people, vehicles or heard unusual noises in the Am Röddenberg/Freiheiter Straße area overnight to call 05522/5080 and say there is no indication of a current danger to the public.