Parricide by Morschen
The parents murder of Morschen was a contract-double murder at the factory couple H. north Hessian community Morschen on June 15, 1997 the Company had commissioned the adoptive daughters from greed. The murder was filmed by Ulrike Bremer as part of the ARD series The Great Criminal Cases.
location
The north Hessian community of Morschen is located about 35 kilometers southeast of Kassel. The scene of the crime, the couple's villa, was on a mountainside, somewhat apart from other residential buildings. The house was secured with surveillance cameras , signal transmitters and an alarm system .
murder
The then 24-year-old main perpetrator, Sascha, rang the doorbell of the couple with his then 19-year-old girlfriend Diana. They pretended to have a breakdown and asked to be allowed to make a phone call. After the bogus phone call, Sascha suddenly cut the husband's throat, who died immediately and went down. The wife tried to flee, but was caught by Sascha just outside the front door and killed in the same way. In order to simulate a robbery, the two perpetrators ransacked the house of the two victims. Acquaintances finally found the two bodies after research, as the couple was no longer seen in the village and no longer took calls. The investigation that followed was carried out by the LKA Hessen in cooperation with the criminal police in Homberg (Efze) .
Investigations
Shortly after the Homberg criminal investigation officers had taken over the investigation, a police representative reported a "cruel picture" that the officers faced. It looked "like an execution".
The couple's two adoptive daughters, Julia and Ines, told the officials during their first interrogations that only the Russian mafia could be responsible for this. The officers also investigated in the direction of the two adoptive daughters. Ines and her fiancé Kai went on a weekend trip to the south this weekend, Julia was with a friend. The adoptive daughters were repeatedly targeted by the investigators in the course of the investigation. Among other things, this was determined by the fact that the wife was only lightly dressed and so no one would have opened the door to strangers. However, Ines and Julia gave alibis, which were initially confirmed by a friend of Julia's and a hotel owner in the Allgäu, in whose hotel Ines and Kai had stayed.
The investigation revealed that Julia had announced at school that "something was going to happen" to her parents. Ines' fiancé had also announced in his professional environment (he was a cook in the armed forces ) that the in-laws would be killed. Before the crime, Julia and Ines had already tried unsuccessfully to kill their parents with rat poison in a cake.
After the investigators concentrated more and more on the two daughters as suspects, Julia made a confession under the increasing pressure. She said that at her sister's behest, she should put the key to her parents' house in the newspaper box before going to a friend's house. So did she. Ines said nothing to the police. Her fiancé Kai, on the other hand, testified that they had met a couple, Diana and Sascha, in Kassel who were ready to carry out the murder. Then the parties wanted to share the legacy. Thereupon arrest warrants were issued against all five persons involved.
process
The trial was held at the Kassel Regional Court . Sascha and Kai were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder out of greed. With Sascha, the particular gravity of the guilt was determined, which rules out an early parole.
Ines was sentenced to ten years of juvenile prison, Julia to seven years and ten months. Julia was the only one in court to remain silent about the allegations. Diana was sentenced to seven years of juvenile imprisonment, taking into account her confession.
In 1998 the two daughters were declared unworthy of inheritance by a civil chamber of the Kassel regional court . The inheritance flowed to relatives of the dead, who sold the couple's company. In 2004, the company was dissolved after bankruptcy.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Rhein-Zeitung : Murder of adoptive parents , accessed on May 29, 2011.
- ↑ https://www.hna.de/lokales/melsungen/ruehrfix-nach-morschen-3131693.html