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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 23, 2019, 06:40:41 pm

Title: Claudia Ruf: German police start DNA testing hundreds over murder (in 1996)
Post by: TomSea on November 23, 2019, 06:40:41 pm
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Claudia Ruf: German police start DNA testing hundreds over murder

Investigators in the west German town of Grevenbroich have started DNA tests on hundreds of men in the hope of solving a 23-year-old murder cold case.

Claudia Ruf, 11, was found sexually assaulted and murdered 70km (43 miles) south of the town in 1996. No-one has been charged with her death.

Police sent invitations to at least 900 men in an effort to match DNA samples recovered from the scene.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50529949 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50529949)