Overview
- A female torso missing head and hands was found Friday in a forest near Monreal, with police securing extensive traces as the search for the head continues.
- Fingerprints linked the hands discovered on November 17 on the A45 near Olpe to a 32-year-old Eritrean woman, and forensic analysis determined they were removed after death.
- Police say the woman's 41-year-old life partner was located abroad, questioned with local assistance, and placed in official custody while his possible involvement is examined.
- The woman's three-month-old baby was found unharmed on November 16 outside Kloster Kröffelbach in Hessen and remains in state care.
- The inquiry spans Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz and Hessen, and investigators are appealing for witnesses, including information about a silver car with Bonn plates near the monastery and observations along the A45 between Kreuz Olpe-Süd and Freudenberg.