In Ulm and Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, three infanticides over the Easter weekend caused great horror. Both cases appear to be acts within families. In Ulm, according to initial police findings, a 40-year-old man killed his partner’s seven-year-old daughter with a knife. And in Hockenheim near Heidelberg, two brothers aged seven and nine were found dead in an apartment on Easter Sunday.
Both cases are still a mystery. In Ulm, the authorities announced in the evening that the man had called the police on Easter Monday and stated that he had killed the girl in the area of a school center in the Wiblingen district. He was then arrested by officers. The police later confirmed that the suspect was the partner of the child’s mother. More precise backgrounds are currently unclear, the criminal police are continuing to investigate.
“Therefore, from the point of view of the police, there was no danger to the population,” the statement continued. The authority initially did not provide any further information, according to the information, the investigations should not be jeopardized.
In the case of the dead brothers in Hockenheim, investigators arrested the 43-year-old mother at the scene on suspicion of a homicide. According to the public prosecutor, she informed the police herself. An arrest warrant has now been issued. Prosecutors have not yet commented on how the children were killed. An autopsy should provide insights on Tuesday, the spokeswoman said on request.
It is also unclear so far whether the suspected woman has already commented on what happened, who lived in the apartment and where the children’s father was at the time of the crime. According to the prosecutor, the victims are brothers.
However, Tuesday could possibly bring new insights. The bodies of the siblings are then to be autopsied, as the investigators announced at the weekend. In addition, it was said that the Mannheim public prosecutor’s office and the department for capital crimes of the Mannheim Criminal Police Office are continuing to investigate. The Central Forensic Science Department of the Heidelberg Criminal Police Department and the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University of Heidelberg are also involved.
