In the mysterious Passau crossbow case, the identity of the two women found dead in Lower Saxony is clarified. According to the police, one of the dead in Wittingen is the 35-year-old life partner of the 30-year-old, who died in Passau. The second killed in Wittingen is a 19-year-old, who was registered in the village. In what relationship she stood with the couple is so far unclear.
The bodies were autopsied on Tuesday. There is no evidence of external violence, said a police spokesman. According to him, the 35-year-old was a primary school teacher, the 30-year-old bakery sales manager.
A teacher of the elementary and high school Wittingen with the subjects German and religion is considered missing according to the Lower Saxony provincial school authority. Chaplains are in the school to support students, teachers and staff, said a government spokeswoman. She did not want to confirm the connection to the Passau crossbow case.
Prosecutor Passau is based on killing on request
On Saturday, the corpses of the 30-year-olds as well as a 53-year-old and a 33-year-old were discovered in a pension in the Bavarian Passau. The three had been killed by crossbow arrows. The investigators speak of extended suicide. It all points to the fact that the 30-year-old first shot the other two and then himself. There is still no evidence that a fourth person could have been involved in the event, said a spokesman for the prosecutor's office Passau.
The autopsy of the bodies from Passau showed that the 53-year-old man and the 33-year-old woman, who lay hand in hand in a bed, were each shot to the heart. The 30-year-old, lying in the room on the floor, was shot dead in the throat.
Found wills
The two corpses in bed had shown more darts, which were reported to have been shot down after the deadly shots in the heart, said the spokesman. None of the three bodies had fighting or defensive signs. In addition, two testaments were found in the pension room, which came from the two persons lying in bed.
The 53-year-old and the 33-year-old were registered in a community in the Westerwald in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before the pension in Passau, in which the two had rented together with the 30-year-olds on Friday, the police ensured the car of the 33-year-olds. The white pick-up is still under investigation.
The German Schützenbund (DSB) According to operate in Germany 3000 of about 1.35 million shooting club members crossbow shooting. From the age of 18, crossbows can be purchased freely. According to the weapons law, the crossbow falls under the items "equivalent to firearms".
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