Romanian confesses to rape, killing of German jogger
Posted November 22, 2017 6:00 am
BERLIN (AP) - A Romanian truck driver has confessed to having raped and killed a woman, who was out jogging in a forest in southwestern Germany.
At the opening of his trial in Freiburg on Wednesday, German news agency dpa reported that the 40-year-old said he killed the woman out of "inexplicable aggression," but that he didn't have a sexual motive.
Senior prosecutor Tomas Orschitt accused the defendant, whose name was not given because of German privacy rules, of raping and killing the 27-year-old in Endingen in November 2016.
Investigators used highway toll and cellphone data to track him down.
In a separate case, the defendant is also suspected of having killed a French student whose body was found in January 2014 in Kufstein, Austria.
A Romanian truck driver gets his handcuffs removed in a courtroom in Freiburg, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. He has confessed to having raped and killed a woman in southwestern Germany at the opening of his trial. The German news agency dpa reported that the 40-year-old said in court that he killed the woman out of âinexplicable aggression,â but that he didnât have a sexual motive. (Patrick Seeger/dpa via AP)
The Associated Press
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