Overview
- Prosecutors told the Landgericht Meiningen that the 50-year-old lured her 78-year-old neighbor into a basement in June 2025 to obtain her bank cards.
- The indictment describes blows to the face, strangulation with hands and a clothesline, a forceful shove against a washing machine, and multiple stab wounds that led to the victim’s death.
- Investigators say EC cards were taken from the victim’s home and about €5,500 was withdrawn from three accounts in the days after the killing.
- Witnesses said the two women had a caregiving relationship that fractured over a disputed €2,400 transfer allegedly benefiting the defendant’s son, after which the victim changed her door lock.
- A care worker testified about a June 2025 email purportedly from the victim’s niece claiming the woman was on holiday, which he found suspicious and reported to police; the defendant has been in pretrial detention since her arrest that month.