Overview
- Prosecutors say roughly 3,500 public tips have been logged, including about 150 after renewed operations in autumn 2025, and investigators continue to follow up on new information.
- Police searched properties tied to the suspect’s family in Tauche and Herzberg using drones, an excavator and ground‑penetrating radar, and forensic examinations of secured traces are still underway with no reportable update.
- An automatic licence‑plate system recorded the family’s pink Renault Twingo on the A12 toward Poland on the day of and the day after Rebecca’s disappearance, and investigators say only the sister’s husband had access to the car.
- Investigators have reported Rebecca’s DNA or hair in the Twingo’s trunk, a finding considered inconclusive because she had legitimate prior access to the vehicle.
- The sister’s husband remains the main suspect and was twice detained in 2019 but never charged, and experts note a prosecution without stronger evidence risks an acquittal that could bar a future case; police have also circulated flyers near Tauche seeking sightings of the Twingo and burial clues.