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Cold Cases in Germany

ColdCaseIndex documents 3 cases in Germany, dated 1922 to 1998. 3 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Hinterkaifeck Farm Victims (1922) and the most recent is Tristan Brübach (1998).

Regions covered: Bavaria (1), North Rhine-Westphalia (1).

Status of the 3 cases in this index
  • Unsolved 3 (100%)

By type

1 Multiple Homicide1 Missing Person1 Homicide

All Germany cases

Unsolved 1998

Tristan Brübach

Thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach was killed on the afternoon of March 26, 1998 in a pedestrian tunnel along the Liederbach stream near Frankfurt-Höchst railway station, where children found his body.

Frankfurt Homicide Age 13
Unsolved 1981

Katrice Lee

Katrice Lee, the daughter of a British soldier, disappeared on her second birthday, November 28, 1981, from a NAAFI shopping complex at Schloss Neuhaus near Paderborn, West Germany.

Paderborn Missing Person Age 2
Unsolved 1922

Hinterkaifeck Farm Victims

Six people, including two children, were beaten to death with a mattock at the isolated Hinterkaifeck farmstead near Waidhofen, Bavaria, on the night of March 31, 1922.

Waidhofen Multiple Homicide
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