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Rendsburg (dpa / lno) - After the Rendsburg women's murders, the Schleswig-Holstein State Police Office admitted that suspicions had not been investigated consistently enough in the previous investigations.
That will now be processed internally, it said in a message on Friday evening.
The 40-year-old suspect was targeted by the investigators much earlier - but a corpse hidden in the attic initially remained undiscovered.
The background to the case: The Rendsburger is in custody on suspicion of murder.
The police had found the man in connection with the murder of a prostitute.
The suspicion was later confirmed that he was also responsible for the violent death of a 26-year-old who was reported missing in Geesthacht in August 2018.
The woman's severely decomposed body was found in September 2020 in the attic of the apartment building in which the man lived.
The State Police Office now explained the investigation work: "Looking back it can be seen that in different organizational units and at different times of the investigation, assessments and measures were not carried out in the form that would be expected in such a situation."
Individual measures were sometimes taken with too little intensity or with a delay.
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As the police announced, the name of the 40-year-old appeared in the missing person in early 2019.
The man's home was then searched on February 26th.
It was assumed that the missing person's bank card would be found there because there was suspicion that he had misused it.
A police spokeswoman said that it was only a case of fraud.
According to the State Police Office, possible links with the missing person's case were not sufficiently followed up.
The attic had not been searched.
The body was not found until much later.
The police office has now drawn the first steps: All unexplained missing persons cases in which a person has been missing for more than three months will be checked again.
Regulations and standards in such cases should also be scrutinized.
The police did not want to provide further information on possible omissions by the investigators on Friday evening.
The investigations were still ongoing, it said.
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