Overview
- The Landgericht Aschaffenburg approved the indictment, with hearings scheduled from May 7 to June 29 across five sessions.
- The accused, now 66, was extradited to Germany in September 2025 and remains in pretrial detention.
- According to the prosecutor, he has confessed to the crime involving 19-year-old nursing student Maria Köhler.
- Investigators report DNA on the alleged net scarf that points to the suspect with near certainty.
- Police say he fled to Turkey in 1984, later re-entered Germany under a false identity to live about 16 years in Aschaffenburg, and can be charged only with murder due to statutes of limitations.