In the summer of 2018, a 25-year-old Chinese student was killed and mutilated in Jena, Toulingen, Germany, and remains were hidden in various parts of the city, and the case is under investigation.
Although the case has attracted worldwide attention, the public knows little about the background and course of the case. German focus online contacted investigators for the first time and saw the documents at the (Gera) Procuratorate in Gera.
Shuddering, the police suspect Vietnamese suspects of the modus operandi or the cannibal serial killer Hannibal in imitation novels and movies. The investigation, confirmed officially by the prosecutor's office, suggests that the commission may be more terrifying than police guesses, because suspects may have eaten corpses.
The picture shows a screenshot of the German website report. (photo source: Focus Online)
Vietnamese suspect turns himself in: blood found in residence, body thrown into rive
On 28 August 2018, at about 11:15, 23-year-old Vietnamese man Nhat T. He came to a police station in Jena and said he wanted to report a murder case. When the police on duty asked where the case was and who wanted to murder him, the 23-year-old T. He said he was the killer, confessed to killing a man and threw the body into the river.
The police immediately gave Nhat T. Handcuff them and take them back to their place of residence. In T. In his room, the police found blood on the bed, on the wall and on the cupboard.
When the police asked where the body was, he hesitated to take the victim to the Salle River. Police took the suspect to a bridge he was familiar with and found parts of the body in the river.
Only then did the police conclude that the suspect had dismembered the victim, after Nhat T. There was no mention of it. The suspect nodded only when the police confirmed it. In a police officer's drawing book, the suspect even drew a tool-a Enzo hunting knife.
German police. (photo source: CXs Information Map)
The victim was dismembered: 28 partial remains, 45 skull fragments
Over the next few days, investigators found bags containing the bodies of the victims near the stadium and in the Lobdeburg forest. The 28 pieces, weighing 30 kg, were examined at the legal medical expert Institute in Jena.
Experts confirmed in the autopsy report that the victim was smashed in the head and 45 pieces were found inside the skull. According to legal medical expert, the cause of death may be traumatic brain injury caused by multiple heavy blows.
Two other details of the preliminary autopsy shuddered investigators: most of breast's skin was stripped and the liver was missing. According to the German newspaper Pictures, autopsy reports from the law Medical Institute in Jena showed the victim's liver missing. The characteristics of the wound showed that the liver was definitely lost by the knife essence.
Investigators have been speculating about what led to the man's behavior. According to the transcript of the (Gera) prosecutor's office on 21 January 2019, investigators found, Nhat T. Was the cannibal serial killer Hannibal's crazy worshiper.
The prosecutor's office has not been able to confirm whether the suspect ate the liver of the murdered Chinese student, but evidence shows that the suspect watched the psychological suspense crime drama Hannibal a few weeks before the crime.
The suspect did not respond specifically to his accusation during the interrogation, more to the effect that he did not know why he had committed the case. He and the victim were unfamiliar and unable to explain the whole story.
German media said that in the history of crime, there are only a few cases related to cannibalism background, the last cannibal case in Germany was track back to 18 years ago.
In March 2001, Armin M., known as "Rothenberg Hannibal", was named "Rothenberg Hannibal". Kill a man and eat part of his body.
In the early days of the incident, no one linked the case in Jena to cannibalism, the report said.
German police. (photo source: CXs Information Map)
For "get rich" and "kill"? Suspect: victims often get parcels that they think are rich
Nhat T. He arrived in Germany on student visas in 2015, traveled to Berlin and Constance, and studied physics in Jena in 2017.
According to the police, he maintains his studies and hobbies part-time. His hobby is photography, but the camera is expensive and the money he makes is obviously not enough to support the hobby. Nhat T. is in an economic situation in 2018, the police said.
A 25-year-old Chinese man in the student dormitory caught his attention, and often received packages from his hometown, so he placed the young man in the ranks of the rich.
The prosecutor's office said on August 24, 2018, the suspect said the victim wrapped in his room, lured the victim into the room to pick up. As the victim stooped into the suspect's room to pick up the package, the suspect struck the victim in the back with a hammer. The suspect locked the room door and turned the music up to avoid being found.
After the crime, the suspect dragged the victim into the bathroom. He dismembered the body, packed it in bags, placed it in separate parts of Jena, and then took the victim's computer and cell phone.
The third day after the crime, Nhat T.. Thousands of euros worth of goods, including 3600 euros worth of cameras, were ordered on Amazon with the victim's name.
That night, after dinner with his Vietnamese girlfriend, he lit a candle, sat her in bed and told her about the killing of Chinese students. At first his girlfriend didn't believe him, thought it was a joke, then he was scared and convinced her boyfriend to turn himself in.
The suspect was taken to a professional hospital for examination. A legal medical expert psychiatrist said the suspect had a paranoid type of schizophrenia. Because of the cause of the illness, he is unable to recognize the legitimacy of his conduct. So he's not going to be in prison, but in a mental hospital.
The student murder case will be tried in the (Gera) District Court of Gera on February 26, 2019.