Brigitte Didier

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The murder of the then 18-year-old Brigitte Didier († December 20, 1990) is one of the first criminal cases in Switzerland to be solved using DNA traces .

On December 20, 1990 Brigitte Didier traveled from Tavannes to Biel to attend a dentist appointment. She is seen for the last time near Reuchenette Street. It was suspected that she tried to hitchhike home. On January 5th, children playing found their bodies under the viaduct of the A16 motorway . Investigators discover that she was strangled, raped and killed with knife wounds. A 25 cm long knife with a 12 cm long blade was found not far from the body.

The police questioned over 400 people and promised a reward of 25,000 francs, but it was not until eleven years after the crime - thanks to advances in forensic medicine and new legal principles - that two DNA traces could be evaluated and assigned.

A first suspect was arrested at the end of 2001 and released after 60 days of pre-trial detention after admitting that he had had a secret relationship with Brigitte Didier and had sex with her the day before the crime.

The second trace of DNA resulted in a man who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for intentional homicide in 1999; he shot a man in Biel in 1997; he vehemently denied the act. A psychiatric report showed that he presumably suppressed the killing of the Turk because it would contradict his self-image. He was then sentenced to life imprisonment in the Didier case . In 2006, the Bern Higher Court upheld the sentence and found the DNA traces found to be sufficient to support the conviction.

The forensic psychiatrist Frank Urbaniok , who examined the suspect, was unable to prove either personality disorders or mental illnesses. His assessment was of a “psychopathically violent and sexually deviant” personality, with a high risk of relapse.

In 2016, the perpetrator requested that the prison sentence be converted into an inpatient therapeutic measure. In these proceedings it emerged that the perpetrator had taken up therapeutic offers sincerely and with interest, but during which no progress could be made - because the perpetrator could not remember the crime at all, nor could he classify photographs of the crime scene at all. The application was then rejected.

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  1. ↑ a b https://www.blick.ch/news/schweiz/es-ist-sein-sperma-in-brigittes-waesche-doch-pb-bestetzt-den-mord-noch-immer-id93407.html

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