Missing Rebecca: Police are looking for the girl on A12
The police start a new search on Saturday. When used on the highway and mantrailer dogs are in use.
Search for Rebecca continues
The search for Rebecca is still going on: As the Berlin police told the short message service Twitter, today is again looking for the missing girl. In the search on the highway between Friedersdorf and Frankfurt (Oder) and personal detection dogs are used. Therefore, it comes to disabilities and short closures at departures and accesses of the A12.
The police from Brandenburg supports the search operation. The Berlin police are traveling with a team of Einsatzhundschaft. Also investigators of the homicide are there. Depending on the development of the search, it may also come to short-term complete locking in both directions.
Crime expert Petermann: "Every single track should be checked" +++
The profiler and former Bremer murder investigator Axel Petermann sees the police in the case of missing Rebecca on a very difficult task. "To pursue so many clues, of course, is a huge job. Especially for those who literally run their heels when checking the tracks, "said Petermann the German Press Agency. "Every single track should be checked. With each whistleblower should be contacted, as personally as possible and not only on the phone. You have to record everything in writing, there are traces and comparisons with other whistleblowers. "So far, the police received 1500 clues"
It's hard to judge results from the outside
Petermann (66), who once directed a murder commission and today works as a writer and "crime scene" consultant, emphasized: "That is only possible with a lot of staff. If there's only one homicide squad with about ten people, that's difficult.It will take a long time to get all the hints out. "
The results and circumstantial evidence of the investigation are difficult to assess from the outside, said Petermann. "But surely the investigators need more. Ultimately, one must be able to prove what is supposed: that Rebecca was killed in her sister's house by her brother-in-law. This could be possible via traces proving how she was killed or by testimonies or a confession.Also, the location of a dead person says a lot about what happened to this person and why the perpetrator chose this place. "
Destiny of Rebecca could be clarified only after years
A corpse could still be found after a long time. "It happens over and over again that killed people were well hidden, that someone buried them," he said. "Look at the case of Peggy, who was accidentally found in a forest after 15 years in 2016." So it could be years later that Rebecca's fate is cleared up. "How far then traces are usable, depends on the time of finding. But also, how the missing person was clothed and in which environment the corpse lay and in what condition it is ", emphasized Petermann. Lawyers, forensic scientists and DNA experts could sometimes achieve surprisingly good results.
Vermisste Rebecca: Polizei sucht auf A12 nach dem Mädchen
In this article, you can find the official announcement of the search by LE Berlin on Twitter.
