Michaela Eisch murder case

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Michaela Eisch (born July 9, 1976 in Munich ; † May 17, 1985 ibid) disappeared on May 17, 1985 at the age of eight and was murdered. Her remains were found on June 14, 1985 at the Braunau railway bridge in Munich. The fact could not be clarified until today.

Life

Michaela and her then 28-year-old divorced mother Helga Brunner (formerly Eisch) lived together in the so-called "Maikäfersiedlung" in Bad-Schachener Strasse in Munich's Berg am Laim district . At the time of the disappearance, Michaela's mother was employed and worked in the breakfast service of the Hotel Alpenhof in downtown Munich on Adolf-Kolping-Strasse, about 300 m from Munich Central Station. The maternal grandparents, who lived not far from the mother's apartment on Heilbrunner Strasse, often looked after the child.

Disappear

On May 17, 1985 at around 5 a.m., Michaela's mother went to her workplace in the Hotel Alpenhof. Michaela spent the morning on a playground and with her grandmother on Heilbrunner Strasse before leaving between around 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. to pick up her mother from work. The day before, it was jointly decided that Michaela would be allowed to take the subway from Innsbrucker Ring to the main train station alone for the first time to pick up her mother at work. A then 13-year-old school friend accompanied Michaela to the Michaelibad underground station . The agreed meeting with the mother did not take place.

On the day she disappeared, Michaela wore the following items of clothing: a white pleated skirt, a T-shirt with a cuddly bear print, black ballerina shoes and a blue cardigan. The girl is said to have also carried a red leather case with a Zeiss Ikon key (registration number: 352665), which was not found later.

By late afternoon Michaela was seen several times in the Josephsburg district by a teacher and other children, the last time around 5 p.m. by two women near the crime scene on the Braunau railway bridge. The witnesses testified independently of one another that Michaela was accompanied by a man (approx. 30 years old, 1.85 meters tall, slim with dark blond, thick hair) and that dealing with each other seemed familiar. The victim and the still unidentified man were spotted near the kiosk on Teutoburger Straße, the child is said to have climbed with the man over the fence into the densely overgrown area below the Braunau railway bridge (Glockenbachviertel). In the afternoon of the same day, Michaela was reported missing.

Despite one of the largest searches that had taken place in the history of the Munich police until then, the girl disappeared without a trace for the next four weeks. A reward of 10,000 DM was offered for information on investigating the crime or arresting the perpetrator .

Corpse find and cause of death

Almost 30 days later - at noon on June 14th - a worker at the electrical works reported a strong smell of putrefaction near the overgrown area on the railway embankment in today's Hefner-Alteneck-Strasse. What the worker initially thought was a dead animal later turned out to be Michaela Eisch's heavily decomposed corpse.

The coroners found that Michaela was abused on the premises and then strangled with her own panties. DNA traces of an unknown person were found at the scene .

Investigations

Due to several independent testimonies about Michaela's apparently familiar dealings with the unknown man on the day of her disappearance, the investigation focused on the girl's environment. Michaela's mother was a single parent at the time of the disappearance and was looking for a partner. Among other things, she commissioned a partner agency. She often went to restaurants near her home. Therefore, a chance acquaintance of the mother could be a possible perpetrator.

After all investigative possibilities had been exhausted, a DNA screening was carried out between July 8 and 10, 2011 in a gymnasium in the police station at Bad Schachener Strasse 4 with the support of the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office . This was directed at male persons registered in the extended area of ​​the cockchafer settlement in Berg am Laim. It was the largest DNA screening in Munich police history. The police asked 1750 Munich residents to volunteer a saliva sample, 1173 men followed the request. Another 1000 men no longer living in Munich were checked by other police stations. Michaela's killer wasn't there.

particularities

The case is the only unsolved child murder in Munich.

Below the Braunau railway bridge near the crime scene, a memorial today commemorates Michaela Eisch.

Michaela's mother died of an asthma attack on September 3, 1992, seven years after the death of her daughter. She was buried in a shared grave in the Ostfriedhof with Michaela.

reception

The case received media coverage that lasted for years, among other things, the case was picked up in the program Aktenzeichen XY unsolved by ZDF and Unexplained Murder - The perpetrator on the trail of RTL II .

Individual evidence

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