It was 2 a.m. when Claudia Obermeier made her way home from her restaurant “Floraheim” on the night of August 25, 1990. The 22-year-old spent the evening with her husband, 26, with whom she runs the restaurant in Röthenbach/Pegnitz in the Nürnberger Land district. The couple has a six-year-old daughter who is being looked after by her grandparents that evening. The two married couples attend a local festival and later return to the restaurant. There an argument breaks out between them and the husband becomes violent. In a rage, he gets into the car while the young mother remains alone in the restaurant. She calls a taxi and wants to go to a friend. But when it arrives at the restaurant, no one is there anymore.
On the way back to headquarters, the taxi driver meets the 22-year-old, who is now apparently walking home to neighboring Renzenhof. But she denies having ordered a taxi. The taxi driver is the last person to see her alive. The next morning, a walker found her half-naked body in a forest just outside Renzenhof. Investigations reveal that the young woman was attacked by an unknown perpetrator, dragged into a bush, raped and finally strangled. The police target the husband. But he was acquitted in court in 1998 – due to lack of evidence.
33 years after the crime, the officers discovered a new lead using new, modern analysis methods and reopened the case. Officials from the Investigative Commission (EKO) “Flora” founded by the Schwabach Police Department have since then been evaluating further leads and incorporating the newly gained findings into their investigative work. On Wednesday (November 8th, from 8:15 p.m.) the case will be broadcast on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY…unsolved”. The police are hoping that the new clues will provide new clues. The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office has also offered a reward of 10,000 euros for information that leads to the investigation of the crime or the capture of the perpetrator.
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Sources: ZDF, Central Franconia Police
