Overview
- Investigators excavating the Brachenfelder Gehölz in Neumünster uncovered bone fragments during a targeted search for missing student Horst Georg Linnemann, and experts must now confirm their origin.
- The Cold Case Unit of Schleswig-Holstein’s state police led the dig after new tips and used heavy equipment with support from the bomb disposal service and crime scene specialists.
- Police continue to treat the case as a likely killing, and recent searches of a forest north of the city and former construction pits along Federal Road 4 produced no finds.
- Linnemann, a 28-year-old mechanical engineering student from Neumünster-Faldera, was last seen by his girlfriend on December 15, 2014, and his car was found in Hamburg five days later.
- Prosecutors have posted a €1,500 reward for information that leads to the body or a suspect, a move aimed at surfacing new leads and offering the family a path to answers.