Overview
- Rescue workers found the 64-year-old shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday in an apartment on An der Holzwolle in Eisenhüttenstadt.
- Police said traces in the flat suggested another person may have been involved and forensic technicians secured evidence at the scene.
- Authorities opened a Todesermittlungsverfahren and handed the case to a Mordkommission to lead the criminal investigation.
- Officials declined to disclose the cause of death and investigators have not announced any suspects or charges.
- Investigators plan house-to-house questioning and lab analysis of the collected traces as they work to establish what happened and whether a weapon or motive can be identified.