Case Mirco

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Memorial at the Hinsbecker Straße car park in Grefrath

The Mirco case is a murder of a ten-year-old boy, which was committed in the fall of 2010 near Grefrath in North Rhine-Westphalia and which caused a great stir throughout Germany. The work of the “ Special Commission Mirco” with 80 officers is considered one of the most complex murder investigations in German criminal history. The searches for the boy are also among the largest that have been carried out in Germany so far. The trial began on July 12, 2011 at the Krefeld district court and ended on September 29, 2011 with Olaf H.'s conviction, including life imprisonment for murder, and determination of the particular gravity of the guilt .

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Ten-year-old Mirco had visited a skate park in the Oedt district five kilometers away on September 3, 2010 and was on his way home on his bike in the evening. However, he never reached his parents' apartment. The boy was last seen in Oedt when he cycled along Johann-Fruhen-Straße at around 9 p.m. After that there was no trace of him. The parents filed a missing person report.

Two days after the boy's disappearance, passers-by found Mirco's grass-green bicycle in a field on the road connecting Grefrath and Oedt - only about 500 meters from his home. Although the finders had thoroughly cleaned the bike before handing it in to the police, the police were able to recover numerous DNA traces . Another passer-by found Mirco's black sports trousers at the Hinsbecker Straße car park in Grefrath, but brought them to the police late. During a search of the premises near the parking lot, officials found other clothes of the boy. The police also discovered traces of DNA on the textiles. In November 2010, employees of a road maintenance department found Microphone's mobile phone in the thicket of a road embankment .

More than 1,000 officers took part in the police search, which was taking place at the same time and combed an area of ​​50 square kilometers, including forests and swamps. Also Tornado fighter jets of the Bundeswehr , with special thermal imaging cameras were fitted and a drone were used. Divers checked every stream in the area; the Heidesee was searched by boat. The parents turned to the perpetrator in a desperate appeal on television and asked for information on the whereabouts of their son ("Please give us our child back or tell us where we can find Mirco"). The case was also presented unsolved in the ZDF broadcast Aktenzeichen XY ... The Special Commission received several thousand reports from the population.

Arrest of Olaf H.

A witness had observed a supposedly dark VW Passat B6 near where the bicycle was found . The police then checked several thousand vehicles in the region that matched the wanted list . At the same time, the police evaluated cell phone data and found a cell phone history that exactly corresponded to the perpetrator's reconstructed journey. On January 26, 2011, the police arrested the 45-year-old family man Olaf H. from Schwalmtal as a suspect. According to the investigators, H., who worked in the controlling department of a large telecommunications provider, behaved completely inconspicuously in his environment.

The man eventually led investigators to the boy's body. He stated various circumstances, including that he had committed the act out of frustration at work and had been pressured by a manager. He accidentally came across the boy while he was driving and asked him to get into his car. In a forest near Kerken , the perpetrator is said to have undressed his victim in order to perform sexual acts on him. The investigators assume that Olaf H. killed the boy in order to cover up these crimes (murder feature according to StGB § 211 ). A psychological expert believes it is more likely that Olaf H. lived out sadistic fantasies with the murder. After the crime, H. took off the boy's clothes in various places. According to the police, the perpetrator was not primarily concerned with sexual abuse, but above all with the act of humiliation.

process

The trial at the Krefeld Regional Court began on July 12, 2011. On the first of twelve days of the trial, the accused Olaf H. confessed to the crime. The prosecutor's allegations are essentially correct, said his defense attorney in a statement made on behalf of his client. Olaf H. will take responsibility for the act. He kidnapped the student, performed sexual acts on him and then strangled him with a string. The accused contradicted the prosecution's allegations on two counts. He didn't stab Mirco with a knife after he had strangled the boy. In addition, the murder was not done out of sexual frustration.

On September 26, 2011, the public prosecutor applied for a total life sentence for murder , sexual abuse and deprivation of liberty for the accused and a determination of the particular gravity of the guilt . The psychiatric expert had previously classified the defendant as fully culpable . The attorney of the murderer's parents, who appeared as joint plaintiffs , joined the public prosecutor's request. On September 29, 2011, the Krefeld Regional Court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment; it also recognized particular severity of guilt. The statement of the defendant that he drove for four hours through parts of the Kleve and Viersen districts on the evening of the crime because he was looking for a place to escape is not considered credible by the court. On the other hand, according to the judges, the goal of the trip was to seize a child and sexually abuse it. The court is convinced that just the half-hour drive in the dark from Grefrath to the crime scene near Kerken with the kidnapped boy justifies the particular gravity of the guilt. The convicted person later appealed on appeal, which was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice, so that the judgment is final.

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  1. ↑ Mirco murder case: Soko boss Thiel never gave up ( memento of the original from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Morgenpost, January 28, 2011.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mopo.de
  2. ↑ "The noose is gradually tightening" Spiegel Online, October 29, 2010.
  3. ^ Olaf H. admits murder of Mirco stern.de, July 12, 2011
  4. ↑ Police are evaluating DNA traces in the Mirco case from Rheinische Post, September 25, 2010
  5. ↑ Woman finds pants of missing Mirco from Grefrath stern.de, September 10, 2010
  6. ↑ Police find additional items of clothing Spiegel Online, September 13, 2010
  7. ↑ Road workers find Mircos Handy Spiegel Online, November 12, 2010
  8. ↑ a b Luftwaffe searches for Mirco Spiegel Online with "Tornado" planes , September 17, 2010
  9. ↑ Police divers search for Mirco Spiegel Online in a small river , October 1, 2010
  10. ↑ Mirco's mother in the wording Spiegel Online, October 1, 2010
  11. ^ Judgment in the Mirco case: Life imprisonment for the murderer. FAZnet, September 29, 2011
  12. ↑ Mirco case: According to chief investigators, cell phone data led to the murderer . In: Spiegel Online . November 8, 2012 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
  13. ↑ a b Soko Mirco: "There was a ticking time bomb on the way" Westdeutsche Zeitung, January 28, 2011.
  14. ↑ Mirco case: Police prove that the perpetrator was a lie. In: Spiegel Online. February 6, 2011, accessed February 6, 2011 .
  15. ↑ The soul of Olaf H. Welt-online September 24, 2011
  16. ^ The suspect in the Mirco case confessed to Spiegel Online , January 28, 2011.
  17. ↑ spiegel.de of July 12, 2011 Beginning of the process in the Mirco case
  18. ↑ rp-online.de of July 12, 2011 ( memento of the original of July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mirco process in Krefeld @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rp-online.de
  19. ↑ “I don't ask for forgiveness” sueddeutsche.de, September 26, 2011
  20. ↑ Mirco's murderer has to go to prison for life Report on Spiegel Online from September 29, 2011.
  21. ↑ rp-online of September 30, 2011 Applause for the judgment in the Mirco case (accessed on September 30, 2011)
  22. ↑ Mircos murderer Olaf H. remains in custody - the judgment is legally binding Hamburger Abendblatt from April 11, 2012, accessed on January 21, 2016