PADERBORN — 2006 · Unsolved Case
Murder of Frauke Liebs
Frauke Liebs, a 21-year-old nursing student, disappeared on the night of 20 June 2006 while heading home in Paderborn after watching a football match with friends. Over the following week she repeatedly contacted family and friends from her own phone by text and brief calls, saying she would soon be home, but in later calls hinting she was not free. The last call came on 27 June. Her body was found by a hunter in woods near Lichtenau on 4 October 2006; the cause of death could not be determined. Despite years of work on the call locations and a possible offender profile, no one has been tried, and proceedings against people investigated were dropped. It is one of Germany's best-known cold cases.
- Date
- 2006
- Place
- North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Paderborn, DE
- Category
- Unsolved Case
- Case Status
- Unsolved
- Coordinates
- 51.7189, 8.7575 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 20 June 2006Frauke Liebs disappeared on her way home in Paderborn.
- 21–27 June 2006Texts and calls came from her phone to family and friends.
- 27 June 2006The last phone call took place.
- 4 October 2006Her body was found by a hunter near Lichtenau.
- 2010s–2020sThe investigation continued with new leads; no one was tried.
Sources
- Westfalen-Blatt — Ermittlungen gegen zwei Männer im Mordfall Liebs eingestellt westfalen-blatt.de ↗
- Radio Westfalica — Der Fall Frauke Liebs radiowestfalica.de ↗
- Wikipedia — Mordfall Frauke Liebs de.wikipedia.org ↗
- Westfalen-Blatt
- Radio Westfalica
- Wikipedia
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