Overview
- Investigators received a charred leather glove from RTL after a passerby turned it in, and forensic testing is underway.
- Rostock’s chief prosecutor said the glove was found several hundred meters from the pond where the body was recovered.
- Police arrested a woman on November 6 on suspicion of murder and placed her in pre-trial detention, with authorities withholding her identity as media report she is the father’s former partner who found the body.
- Officials said the autopsy confirmed a violent crime and burning, with the likely time of the killing on October 10 between 11:00 and 15:00 and not at the recovery site.
- After criticism of scene handling, the prosecutor said a zipper piece spotted by a reporter likely came from police clothing and that the area had been extensively searched, while the victim’s mother’s lawyer described a close relationship between the child and the detained woman and emphasized unanswered questions.