On Friday, January 25, 1997, Eva G. is going to her parents in Landau in the Palatinate. Early on Sunday evening, the 26-year-old takes the train back to Freiburg. Between Landau and Karlsruhe she meets a young man who gets off in Karlsruhe. Shortly after 9 p.m. she changes to the IC 503 towards Freiburg. After she gets there, the biology student will probably make her way to her shared student flat.

Around 9:15 p.m., residents on Stefan-Meier-Strasse heard screams. What they notice: Nearby they see an older, light-beige panel van with black license plates. This is parked on the side of the road at the level of the former DEA gas station and was spotted there in the afternoon.

The next morning, at around 8.45 a.m., a truck driver found her body on the edge of a dirt road on Landstraße 185 between Geisingen and Blumberg in the Tuttlingen district. The police assume that the student was violently kidnapped and killed by the driver of the van and that the perpetrator threw her out of the car on the dirt road. Witnesses observed the van near the scene of the crime around 11 p.m. and finally around 2.30 a.m.

At the site, the police secured traces, including a DNA trace. Personal belongings of the victim may also have been left behind in the perpetrator's car. Since the police are still groping in the dark looking for the perpetrator, the case will be discussed on Wednesday, January 18, at 8:15 p.m. on the ZDF program “Aktenzeichen XY”.

In this context, the police are looking for witnesses who made observations in the Blumberg/Geisingen area from 11 p.m. on that evening of January 26, 1997 that could be connected to the murder or could provide information about the van described.

The public prosecutor's office in Rottweil and the police headquarters in Konstanz have offered a reward of 5,000 euros for information leading to the identification or arrest of the previously unknown perpetrator.

Sources: Constance police, Freiburg police