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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - The murder trial against a man who is said to have killed his wife and disposed of the corpse in the garbage is nearing its end.

In mid-April, the proceedings will be pleaded and the verdict will be announced.

Specifically, the pleadings are planned after the end of the taking of evidence on April 15 and the judgment on April 16.

The presiding judge at the Frankfurt Regional Court said on Tuesday that the victim's 38-year-old husband could still be convicted of greed-based murder.

With the killing of the 43-year-old, he may have wanted to at least get possession of the woman's apartment in Frankfurt-Nied.

He wanted to share it with his new girlfriend, as can be seen from a chat after the woman disappeared.

The woman disappeared in October 2019 and was reported missing by the German defendant.

A few weeks later, after a meticulous search by the police at a landfill in the Main-Taunus district, bone remnants were found that unquestionably came from the missing woman.

The defendant initially denied having anything to do with the woman's death.

In the trial that has been going on before the jury chamber since the beginning of February, he did not comment on the murder charge at all.

Only a few days after the wife's disappearance, the man had taken his new girlfriend into the marital apartment and presented her with jewelry from the disappeared.

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