In the case of Sonja Engelbrecht, a Munich resident who was probably murdered more than a quarter of a century ago, the police are hoping for new findings by spring 2023. The forensic investigations went even further, said a police spokesman in Munich.
There are currently no results and there is no suspect.
In March 2022, investigators assigned a jawbone found in the forest near Kipfenberg in the Upper Bavarian district of Eichstätt to the disappeared.
The Kripo assumes that the body was buried in the forest about 100 kilometers north of the state capital.
The bone and some teeth were found between two rocks during a major search.
The skeleton is no longer complete because animals probably dragged away bones.
A thigh bone of the 19-year-old who disappeared in 1995 was discovered by a forest worker about 200 meters from this site in the summer of 2020.
When the bone could be assigned to the missing person about a year later, the targeted search in the forest began.
How Sonja Engelbrecht died is still a mystery.
After finding the femur, the investigators assumed that the young woman had been the victim of a violent crime.
Her family last saw the young woman on April 10, 1995, shortly after her 19th birthday.
She left that day to meet up with a friend - and disappeared without a trace.
In the spring of 2020, the skeletonized bodies of a young couple from Ingolstadt, who had been missing since 2002, were also discovered in the market town of Kipfenberg, which has around 6,000 inhabitants.
Investigators continue to assume that there is no connection between the violent crimes.
The crime against the 21-year-old woman and the 23-year-old man from Ingolstadt is still unsolved.