Overview

• The Oberlandesgericht Bamberg dismissed the mother’s appeal and upheld the Landgericht Hof decision, rejecting her €75,000 pain-and-suffering claim
• The court found no credible proof that the defendant transported Peggy’s body to a Thuringian forest and judged his partial confession unreliable and inadmissible
• In 2018 the defendant initially admitted under questioning that he moved the nine-year-old’s corpse but later retracted his statement, citing police pressure and absent perpetrator details
• Peggy disappeared from Lichtenberg in May 2001 and her remains were uncovered in a Thuringian forest in 2016, yet no one has been convicted for her killing
• With criminal responsibility still unresolved and civil remedies exhausted, the family faces few legal avenues for compensation