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PANORAMA
FRIDAY JUNE 5TH 2020
Christian B. as a suspect
Are Maddie and Inga cases related?
In the past few days, a spectacular turn in the Maddie case has made the headlines. Years after the girl's disappearance, a German sex offender is now considered a suspect. He is also assumed to have a connection to another criminal case.
The Stendal public prosecutor is looking for possible connections between the case of Inga, who disappeared five years ago in Saxony-Anhalt, and the case of three-year-old Madeleine "Maddie" McCann from Great Britain. In connection with the suspicion in the Maddie case, it will be checked whether there are any indications of a connection and whether this leads to an initial suspicion against the suspect, said the public prosecutor in Stendal. No further details were given.
As the "Magdeburger Volksstimme" and "Der Spiegel" report, the suspect Christian B. lived near the then five-year-old Inga G at the time of the disappearance. The girl disappeared without a trace on a trip to Stendal-Wilhelmsdorf in May 2015. The media reports say that B. had lived in Neuwegersleben around 90 kilometers away at that time.
This connection had already been noticed by investigators in 2016 when they searched a neglected property in Neuwegersleben. There they came across buried dog bones and a USB stick with child pornography and pictures of the suspect B. In a caravan on the property, the officers would also have found clothes for girls, even though B. had no family.
According to the "Spiegel", the investigators assume that B. knew an employee of the diaconal house in question, from whose vicinity Inga had disappeared. In the files of the Stendal police, a chat history from September 2013 was also recorded, in which B. wrote to a friend that he wanted to "catch something small and use it for days". The acquaintance replied that this was dangerous. B. replied: "Oh, if the evidence is destroyed afterwards."
As the "Magdeburg Volksstimme" reports, criminologists have been tracking the 43-year-old since a 2013 broadcast of "Case number XY ... unresolved". A witness in the missing case of Maddie recognized a phantom image shown at the time and gave the indication that B. had lived in the Portuguese coastal town of Praia da Luz at the time of the crime in 2007. The then three-year-old had disappeared from an apartment complex there.
When the officials searched the property in Saxony-Anhalt in 2016, they also compared the traces found with those in the Inga case, according to the "Magdeburg Volksstimme". At the time, however, these did not lead to useful information. However, an insurance protocol of an accident that emerged later showed that Christian B. with the minibus of a friend at the time had a parking lot on the Autobahn 2 near Helmstedt on May 1 - a day before Inga disappeared. The place is about an hour away from the diaconal work in Wilhelmshof.
According to the report, Christian B. is said to have been on the Neuwegersleben site for a few hours a day until May 6, 2015. This is how witnesses described it. Neuwegersleben is near the A2. Nevertheless, the investigators at the time had not made any connections because they did not believe that B. would connect to the Diakonie grounds in the forest.
"We assume the girl is dead"
The 43-year-old is currently serving an old prison sentence in Kiel, which the district court in Niebüll had already imposed on him in 2011. It was about trading narcotics. In parallel, he is ordered to be held in custody on charges of rape. The district court in Braunschweig last sentenced him on December 16, 2019 to seven years in prison for serious rape, including previous punishments. In 2005, around a year and a half before Maddie's disappearance, he raped a 72-year-old American in Praia da Luz, Portugal. The judgment is not yet final, the revision is with the Federal Court of Justice.
According to "Spiegel", the criminal record of the man has a total of 17 entries. Around 27 years ago, in October 1993, the district court of Würzburg imposed a two-year juvenile sentence on the child, who was then still a minor, for "sexual abuse of a child, attempted sexual abuse of a child and the conduct of sexual acts in front of a child", according to court documents.
On Wednesday evening, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the public prosecutor's office in Braunschweig surprisingly announced that the German was suspected of murder in the Maddie case. "We assume that the girl is dead," said the spokesman for the Braunschweig public prosecutor, Hans Christian Wolters, on Thursday.
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It tears you apart to think that monster CB's face may have been the last she saw, without even imagining what he possibly subjected her to.
If CB is the perp he must have thought all his Christmases had come at once when he broke into a holiday apartment hoping to steal a few valuables & found 3 unsupervised young children sleeping.
