Overview
- The large water-rescue in Monheim, which began Wednesday evening after a person-in-the-river alert, ended with crews finding a human leg on the shore.
- A day earlier in Düsseldorf, firefighters recovered a body from the Rhine at Robert-Lehr-Ufer, and the person was already dead when pulled from the water.
- The Düsseldorf criminal police opened a formal death inquiry and took the lead on both finds, treating the Monheim site as a secured crime scene.
- Forensic pathology and DNA comparison are pending to determine the cause of death, the identity of the deceased, and whether the two finds belong to the same person.
- Authorities have not confirmed who the deceased is, and reports that the Düsseldorf body may be male remain unverified until the medical exams are complete.