Tristan murder

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The Tristan murder case is the unsolved murder of 13-year-old Tristan Brübach from Frankfurt am Main on March 26, 1998 in Frankfurt-Höchst .

Life

Tristan Brübach was born on October 3, 1984 in Frankfurt am Main as the son of Iris and Bernd Brübach. He grew up in the Frankfurt districts of Höchst and Unterliederbach . During his school days he attended the Walter Kolb Primary School in Frankfurt-Höchst, then he went to the master school in Frankfurt-Sindlingen . After the early death of his mother in 1995, Tristan grew up alone with his father.

Sequence of events

On the day of the act, the boy was last seen alive in the Bruno-Asch-Anlage at Frankfurt-Höchst train station at around 3:20 pm ; the report of the discovery of his body in an underpass of the Liederbach to the west of the Frankfurt-Höchst train station (the “Liederbach tunnel”) was received by the police at 5:08 pm. The boy was knocked unconscious and strangled, the cause of death was a cut in the throat. After the corpse died, both testicles and muscle meat were removed from the buttocks and thighs. After the crime, the perpetrator placed the body on a concrete base. While the crime was being committed, the murderer was observed from a distance by three young people who could not recognize the crime as such. They later gave the investigators a description of the perpetrator, which has so far not led to a successful search. One year after the crime, Tristan's backpack was discovered in March 1999 in a forest near Niedernhausen , about 25 kilometers from the crime scene. Because there was a road map of Germany in the Czech language in the rucksack, searches for the case were also broadcast on television in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but that did not bring any new information either.

Investigations

In the course of the investigations, from 2002 onwards, suspicion-independent serial examinations of fingerprints were carried out to a previously unknown extent . All male residents of the Höchst and Unterliederbach districts at that time between the ages of 15 and 45, as well as commuters, were asked to provide fingerprints. By 2014, 98.65% of the then Höchst and 92.95% of the then Unterliederbach residents had given their fingerprints. In the course of the investigation, there were also false reports that made the investigation more difficult. A woman from America came forward and accused her ex-husband; only after lengthy investigations did it turn out that it was merely a skillful revenge campaign and that the man had nothing to do with the crime.

On May 19, 2016, the Hessian State Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden announced that Manfred Seel , who died in 2014 and is suspected of murdering several women, may also be responsible for the murder of Tristan Brübach. However, there are only indications for this . In October 2017, the head of the press office of the Frankfurt police announced that Seel had been excluded as a perpetrator. The public search for Tristan's murderer will be resumed "soon".

particularities

Phantom braid straps

This is the main suspect, a male person around 20 to 30 years old at the time of the crime with a conspicuous harelip or scar on the upper lip and an unkempt overall appearance, who was seen by several witnesses and of whom a phantom image was created through several testimony. The phantom image has already been used to search for the perpetrator worldwide, but no one could be identified. The person was seen for the first time on the day of the crime, shortly after the crime, at around 3:50 p.m., coming out of a bush directly at the Liederbach tunnel, by a twelve-year-old girl. The person wore a cap with a ponytail or braid sticking out from the back. About a week later, the man showed up at a law firm where he said to the paralegal, "I just got out of jail and screwed up again." The paralegal sent him to another office for Criminal matters that the stranger did not go to. A week later, another witness called Tristan who knew Tristan personally and who gave him regular tutoring. The witness said that just days before the murder she saw Tristan with a grown man who looked exactly like the person in the phantom. She was sure that she had seen this man more than once.

Regardless of whether the pigtail wearer is the possible perpetrator, there was another witness who made a different observation with regard to the possible perpetrator. It is about the woman from the Bruno Asch facility who Tristan last saw alive shortly before the crime at around 3:20 p.m. He sat alone on a park bench and smoked a cigarette. She talked to him a little and wanted to go back a short time later. Not far from the park bench, she turned around again and saw two men sitting on the park bench to either side of Tristan. Only ten to 25 minutes later the murder of Tristan Brübach took place around 500 meters further in the Liederbach tunnel.

Unknown caller

One day after the boy's funeral, a hitherto unknown man called the police on April 7, 1998 and claimed that he was Tristan's murderer - he was standing at the Höchst train station and wanted to be picked up and arrested. When the police got there, he was gone. From September 1998 the voice of the caller could temporarily be heard nationwide on the telephone number 0 11 66. To date, the caller could not be identified.

dig

In October 1999, an unidentified person sneaked up to the boy's grave in Höchst cemetery at night and dug four feet deep for the coffin, then disappeared. The police suspect that the person has been disturbed. The rest period for the grave ended in March 2018. Since Tristan's parents both died - his father died in 2015 at the age of 59 - and no other relatives could bear the costs for the grave site and its care, a citizens' initiative wanted to preserve the grave, according to the police. In March 2018 a memorial for Tristan was erected in view of the imminent clearing of the grave.

Rewards

The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt / Main offered a reward of 15,000 euros for clues leading to the investigation of Tristan's murderer. This reward was topped up by a private individual by 5,000 euros. A second private person temporarily offered a reward of 80,000 euros until May 2016, so that 100,000 euros were temporarily offered. The total of the rewards offered is currently 20,000 euros.

reception

In 2017 the novel “Menschenfischer” by the Frankfurt writer Matthias Altenburg was published (under the pseudonym Jan Seghers ). The plot is initially based on the case of Tristan Brübach (alias Tobias Brüning ), but then develops into a purely fictional story.

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Federal Criminal Police Office: Unknown person. Murder. Tristan Brübach . Search call of November 4, 2009, last updated on April 2, 2015, accessed on October 13, 2017.
  3. ↑ Daily routine of Tristan Brübach on the day of his death, March 26th, 1998, wanted information from the Federal Criminal Police Office, Wiesbaden, online , accessed on May 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ Federal Criminal Police Office: Unsolved murders: Murder of 13-year-old Tristan Brübach (news) ( Memento of May 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on May 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ Julia Jüttner: Tristan Brübach case: Inspector Fey and the riddle of the Liederbach tunnel. In: Spiegel Online . March 24, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Grisly details about the Schwalbach serial killer. hessenschau.de, May 19, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c Tristan case. Smashing the hot trail - Internet manhunt continues ( memento from August 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), hessenschau.de from October 9, 2017, accessed on October 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ Voice of the unknown caller. , accessed July 22, 2018
  9. ↑ 20th anniversary of death on Monday: Murdered Tristan gets a memorial. In: Hessenschau. March 26, 2018, archived from the original on July 9, 2018 ; accessed on May 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ memory of Tristan Brübachs fate , fnp.de, March 26, 2018