Overview

• OLG Bamberg confirmed the dismissal is legally binding, following an August decision by a civil chamber that denied revision.
• The court found no sufficient proof that the former suspect moved Peggy’s body to a forest in Thuringia.
• Judges deemed the man’s 2018 partial confession unreliable, stating it was produced under pressure and refuted in its core.
• The mother had sought €75,000 for psychological suffering, calculated as €5,000 for each year of uncertainty about her child's fate.
• Peggy vanished in 2001 and her remains were discovered in 2016, with no one criminally convicted in the case.