Overview

• The public prosecutor has charged the 39-year-old with murdering her six- and seven-year-old children in the hours after Christmas Eve 2024 and alleges she then attempted suicide.
• The case is being handled as a Sicherungsverfahren, a security proceeding that focuses on whether psychiatric detention is required instead of a standard criminal trial.
• Court-appointed psychiatrists are assessing if a paranoid delusional disorder left her criminally unaccountable at the time of the alleged killings.
• Witnesses, including the children’s father acting as co-plaintiff, have described her as psychologically unstable with intense fears, delusional beliefs and periods of alcohol misuse.
• Investigators reported finding a blood-smeared axe at the Rosenheim home and heard testimony from an acquaintance who discovered the mother beside her children’s bodies.