Dead baby and murdered Claudia Wilbert: Bonn police reopen two cold cases

Bonn- More than three decades after the crimes, the Bonn police are rolling out two unsolved criminal cases The focus of the investigation is on a 17-year-old girl who was killed and a dead infant. Both cases are also featured in the ZDF broadcast.Case number XY… Unsolved” was presented.

According to the officials, on December 10, 1987, a Thursday, a walker found a black cloth bag at the NATO ramp on Bonn's Fritz-Schröder-Ufer between Wachsbleiche and Rosental, which had been placed directly on the waterline of the Rhine.

When the witness took a look inside the bag, he made a terrible discovery: next to several towels with blood on them, there was a lifeless newborn baby.

“An autopsy later revealed that the infant had been a viable premature baby in the 7th to 8th month of pregnancy, which had died due to external influences,” a police spokesman said.

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Investigations at the time into women who were pregnant but could not provide proof of birth were unsuccessful.

Because the case has not been solved to date, the Bonn Police Cold Case Investigation Group is now, almost 37 years later, asking the public for information.

On March 30, 1979, walkers also made a sad discovery at a hiking parking lot near Bad Münstereifel-Scheuren, when they discovered the body of 17-year-old Claudia Wilbert.

According to investigators, the young woman was last seen on the evening of March 28, 1979, at around 10:10 p.m. at the city park in Rheinbach. Witnesses observed Wilbert getting into a light-colored car with a previously unknown young man.

Explosive: Only about 30 minutes before the 17-year-olds got into the car with the man, a classmate who had been at the same place in Rheinbach was harassed by a driver who was also sitting in a light-colored car.

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“Witnesses identified the vehicle as a Renault 6 or a comparable model (Peugeot 104, VW Golf, Opel Kadett),” the investigators explained. It can be assumed that it is the same vehicle that the victim got into.

The Bonn police will present the two unsolved criminal cases on Wednesday, September 11, at 8:15 p.m. in the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY… Ungelöst.”

The investigators are already accepting tips from witnesses on the telephone number 0228/150 or by email to [email protected] in contrast to.