German police mentioned Wednesday they’d arrested an 81-year-old suspect this week within the sexual assault and homicide of an American girl greater than 30 years in the past.
The physique of 24-year-old vacationer Amy Lopez was present in 1994 close to the historic Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, positioned on the Rhine river within the western metropolis of Koblenz. She was a scholar from Texas, German information program Tagesschau reported.
Youngsters found her corpse, which was partially nude and bore extreme head wounds, in line with native authorities.
“The sufferer was strangled, struck on the top with a stone, and stabbed a number of occasions, in the end leading to his demise,” the Koblenz Public Prosecutor’s Workplace said in a statement.
Police had puzzled over the case ever since Lopez’s physique was discovered however Chief Public Prosecutor Manfred Mannweiler mentioned advances in DNA know-how had allowed police to reopen the investigation and arrest the suspect in a retirement dwelling.
Polizei Rheinland-Pfalz 
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