Trial for the killing of girls more than 30 years ago

More than 30 years after the violent death of a girl in Franconia, the trial against a man begins at 9 a.m. in the Würzburg district court. The accused was 17 years old at the time of the crime and denies the charges. According to the public prosecutor's office, he is said to have murdered 13-year-old Sabine Kurz before Christmas 1993 in Karlstadt (Main-Spessart district). The charge is murder, other possible crimes such as manslaughter are already statute-barred.

There was no movement in the case for years. In January 2021, investigators then made a surprise announcement: a man from the Main-Spessart district had been arrested on suspicion of murder after recent searches. Further detailed DNA analyses revealed new clues. A few weeks later, however, the suspect was released, but the investigation continued.

The police had already had their eye on the German man earlier. Nothing has been publicly disclosed about the cause of death, only the use of massive violence was mentioned.

The teenagers disappeared on December 15, 1993, and two days later their bodies were discovered in a manure pit on a farm in the Wiesenfeld district. The pit was covered with a concrete lid.

The trial is scheduled to last 36 days until the end of January next year. Because the defendant was a juvenile at the time of the crime, the proceedings will take place behind closed doors – even though the German is now 47 years old.