The suspect in the Peggy murder case revoked his partial confession three months ago according to a media report. In September, the 41-year-old said in an interrogation that he had brought the dead Peggy in his car in May 2001 in the forest. Then as now he denied killing the girl.
The police had put his client under pressure during the hearing three months ago, said the lawyer of the 41-year-old Bayerischer Rundfunk. "At some point he just wanted to get out of this situation and that's why he simply said what he wanted to hear from him," the BR quoted the lawyer. The suspect had been arrested on Monday.
Peggy disappeared on May 7, 2001, on her way home from school. In July 2016, a mushroom picker found parts of her skeleton in a forest near Rodacherbrunn in Thuringia, about 20 kilometers from Peggy's hometown Lichtenberg in Upper Franconia. On Tuesday against the 41-year-old German from the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel arrest warrant for murder was issued.
According to police and prosecutors, the man should have been "perpetrator or accomplice" and subsequently dumped the lifeless body in a forest in neighboring Thuringia. Maybe the murder should cover up a crime previously committed, the investigators said.
Essential information of the man was "not to reconcile with the other investigation results," said the police. Therefore, the arrest took place.