Overview
- Police were alerted around 7:30 p.m. Monday to a house on An der Lehmgrube in Höchstadt, where officers found the woman dead.
- Her 44-year-old son was detained at the scene without resistance and is currently with the Erlangen criminal police.
- Authorities have ruled out an accident and say the evidence indicates a homicide viewed as a relationship crime.
- The Erlangen homicide unit is leading the probe in coordination with the Nuremberg-Fürth prosecutor’s office after initial evidence work by the regional forensic team.
- Investigators have not disclosed the manner of death or the motive, and the suspect is being brought before an investigative judge to decide on pretrial detention.