Death of Klock

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The Klock death is a homicide that took place on June 6, 2014 in the Hessian city of Maintal . The two tenants of a riding school , Klaus-Dieter B. (59 years old) and his 29-year-old son, killed their landlords, the 57-year-old couple Harry and Sieglinde Klock, and then buried the bodies under a dung heap. The perpetrators were acquitted by the court because the court could not rule out self-defense . The case caused a nationwide response.

Case description

On June 6, 2014, the landlords went to the riding stables, among other things to claim outstanding rent. When they didn't return, the daughter reported the two of them missing. Although the investigators found traces of blood at the riding school , the bodies could not be found even after the establishment of a special commission and extensive search measures, including the deployment of divers in the Main. The perpetrators did not confess until four months later and showed the investigators the bodies that were buried under a dung heap. Harry Klock was killed with 17 knife wounds, Sieglinde with two shots from a pistol.

The perpetrators appealed to self-defense and stated that they had been threatened by the aggressive landlord. On August 5, 2015, the Hanau regional court acquitted the two perpetrators for having committed themselves to self-defense. In the run-up, the press reported presumably reduced culpability and self-defense was likely. The court relied mainly on the testimony of a veterinarian, who described the landlord as choleric and aggressive, insulting the tenants as "insane" and commanding them like slaves. Thirty reports against Klock had been on record since 1984 and there was talk of gambling debts. Some described him as nice, calm and inconspicuous, others spoke of a thug from the station scene. The acquittal met with a lack of understanding among the local residents. The court also believed the accused that they only hid the bodies because they feared that the investigators would not believe them. After the verdict was announced, the tumult broke out so much that the police had to vacate the courtroom.

On February 1, 2017, the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment on appeal by the joint plaintiffs because of errors in the assessment of evidence and referred the case back to another large criminal division of the Hanau Regional Court. On March 16, 2018, the Hanau district court acquitted the two defendants again. However, the father was sentenced to eight months imprisonment for illegally possessing weapons, which was fully offset against the previous remand detention. Against this judgment, the public prosecutor's office and accessory prosecution appealed against which the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment and this time referred the matter to a jury chamber of the Frankfurt am Main district court for renewed hearing and decision.

The hr-fernsehen described the case as one of the most mysterious cases in Hesse.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topics at stern TV from September 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Couple killed: court considers self-defense likely. Bintz-Verlag (OP-Online), June 13, 2015
  3. ↑ 30 criminal charges against Harry Klock. Hanauer Anzeiger, article preview without date
  4. ^ Christian Preusser: horror and indignation. Frankfurter Neue Presse, August 7, 2015
  5. ↑ Acquittal for self-defense: Deadly tenancy dispute Spiegel Online from August 4, 2015, accessed on March 21, 2018.
  6. ^ Maintal: Dead couple on horse farm: BGH lifts acquittals on Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from February 1, 2017, accessed on March 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ Maintal: Father and son acquitted again after killing the landlord couple Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 16, 2018, accessed on March 21, 2018.
  8. ^ Rainer Habermann: Again acquittals in the Klock trial: But eight months because of unauthorized possession of weapons. Fuldaer Zeitung, MARCH 17, 2018
  9. ↑ Klock process could be re-rolled for the third time. January 4, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .
  10. ^ New judgment in the Klock trial. maintower , March 16, 2018, accessed March 21, 2018 .