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After a report by the Itzehoe homicide commission was broadcast on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY ungelöst” about a crime 37 years ago, numerous witnesses came forward.
The criminal police and the studio in Munich received more than 40 clues by Friday, as the police announced.
"Among the clues are some promising ones that the homicide squad will investigate in the next few days," said police spokesman Stefan Hinrichs.
"In addition, some whistleblowers also pointed to new directions of vision and investigation."
In the case it was about the 34-year-old Herbert Kahrs.
The father of the family had initially disappeared without a trace in September 1983.
In late November of the same year, his body was discovered in a drainage shaft.
The case has not been resolved to this day.
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On September 10, 1983, at 6:15 a.m., Kahrs left his home address in Twielenfleth near Stade to take his car to his place of work, a supermarket on Langenfelder Damm in Hamburg, explained a police spokesman.
The father of the family, who worked as a branch manager, did not arrive there and has been missing since then.
Car was salvaged from the Elbe
On November 29, 1983, witnesses found the 34-year-old dead in a shaft of a trench drainage in the Holm district in the Pinneberg district.
The autopsy of the corpse revealed that the Lower Saxon had fallen victim to a shot.
Even after the man's disappearance, witnesses saw his car, a mustard-colored Toyota Corolla with Stader license plates, in the city of Hamburg and in the adjacent Pinneberg district.
The vehicle was finally recovered from the Elbe on January 31, 1984.
To date, the investigators have not succeeded in clearing up the act of violence. A reward of 6,000 euros is offered for tips that lead to the perpetrator or perpetrators. Please contact the criminal police in Itzehoe on 04821/6020 for any relevant information.