Mysterious body found in the back seat Woman stabbed to death before serious accident

After an accident, the police make a gruesome discovery in the back seat of a car: the body of a woman is lying there. The husband is suspected. Now the investigators know something more.

DPA

22.06.2024, 07:33

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The police have made progress in the investigation into the mysterious discovery of a body in the back seat of a car involved in an accident. The woman who was found dead had been stabbed and died from her high blood loss, said a spokesman for the Rottweiler public prosecutor's office after the autopsy of the body.

Her husband, who was separated, is said to have been driving the car on the A81 when he left the road at high speed in the Rottweil district and crashed into the central crash barrier. Officers then made the gruesome discovery in the back seat: the driver's dead wife. The "Schwäbische Zeitung" newspaper had already reported on the autopsy.

"Investigating everything that can be investigated"

"Now we know how the woman died," said the spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office. "But we can't yet say where it happened. That's why we're investigating everything we can."

An arrest warrant has been issued for manslaughter against the husband, who lives in Calw. The 36-year-old has been in custody since Thursday. According to the public prosecutor's office, his wife had last lived in the Tuttlingen district. According to this information, the couple came from Eastern Europe, they lived separately and they had two children together. "We know there was a relationship and that is probably where the motive lies," the spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office continued.

The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after the accident. Investigators assume that he inflicted the injuries himself.