Overview
- A 59-year-old from Velbert is in custody on suspicion of attempting to murder her estranged husband with aconitine-laced beans; toxicology found the plant toxin in his stomach, blood and leftovers, and a 59-year-old alleged accomplice was also jailed.
- DNA tests confirmed that dismembered remains found in NRW and Rhineland-Palatinate belong to a 32-year-old woman who lived in a Bonn refugee facility; police are still searching for the head and examining a possible link to her partner abroad as a Bonn murder commission leads the case.
- Prosecutors in Offenburg filed charges over the August killing of an 84-year-old in Kehl, accusing a now 24-year-old man of murder, rape and robbery; a psychiatric assessment led to his provisional placement in a hospital as the court reviews opening the trial.
- In Rosenheim, a 66-year-old remains in critical condition after a severe assault in a homeless shelter; a 32-year-old suspect was arrested near the scene and has been ordered into pretrial detention on suspicion of attempted homicide.
- After a 64-year-old was shot dead in Waldsassen, a 67-year-old suspect turned himself in; investigators presented him to a judge as they continue to probe motive and the relationship between the men.