It has become a sad certainty: Tabitha (17) is dead.
The schoolgirl had left her parents’ house on Tuesday and told them she was taking the bus to Ludwigsburg to go shopping.
The parents reported their daughter missing. When Tabitha still did not come home, the police decided to launch a public search on Friday. The newspaper BILD also reported. But even the public search did not lead to decisive clues.
From Saturday on, the police searched for Tabitha with helicopters, drones and search dogs. The focus of the operation: a wooded area near the water tower in Markgröningen at Leudelsbachtal.
At the same time, the police arrested a suspect (35). His flat was searched. He is said to be a Syrian.
On Sunday, the search continued. A female body was found. The post-mortem examination revealed that the dead woman was Tabitha E.
The 35-year-old suspect is now in custody. The police did not want to say whether he had confessed.
In addition, the police are looking for witnesses, for example to an older, grey-brown BMW 320 with Ludwigsburg licence plates (LB-NA 21). The car is said to have been “possibly occupied by the missing person and a man”.
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