Overview

• The Dresden public prosecutor’s office and police directorate officially closed the criminal inquiry on August 2 after months of investigation.
• Investigators found no evidence of third-party involvement and determined that the deaths were consistent with a suicidal incident.
• Advanced decomposition hindered precise cause-of-death findings, but authorities regard drowning as highly probable.
• The victims were identified as a 67-year-old man and a 64-year-old woman from Nauwalde who likely died around mid-January.
• The bodies had been discovered on April 7 by an employee at an infrequently inspected slurry pit in the Spansberg district of Gröditz.