Trial of Cold Case Heike Kötting: Suspect in court after 33 years

Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia) – He is wearing a white, ironed shirt, and she has a cross dangling from a chain over her blue T-shirt. Peter W., (60) and Petra G., (62) are handcuffed. They are said to have killed Heike Kötting († 28) in Dortmund – 33 years ago!

The first spectacular investigative success of the Cold Case Department The Dortmund police have been stationed outside the Dortmund district Court The investigators were able to use new methods to secure DNA traces on old evidence carriers. A father from Dortmund and a mother from Mönchengladbach are in custody.

According to BILD information, Petra G. and Peter W.of having committed the cruel crime. However, on the first day of the trial they preferred not to comment.

Telephone cable ripped out of the wall

Public prosecutor Gülkiz Yazir is convinced that the couple and an as yet unknown accomplice broke into the Karstadt decorator’s house on the evening of February 25, 1991. The burglars climbed through a light shaft, according to the indictmentThe men broke open the cellar door and the woman ripped the telephone cable out of the wall. But as they were still looking for valuables, the apartment door opened. Heike Kötting came home.

Fled with the victim’s Fiesta

Yazir: “When she went into her sewing room to put her things away, one of the defendants throttled her, while another stabbed Heike Kötting with a knife, intent on killing her.” One stab wound hit her carotid artery, two hit her chest. While the young woman bled to death, the criminals made off with their red Fiesta.

For the prosecutor, it was an insidious murder, committed out of greed or to avoid discovery. If the defendants are found guilty, they face prison for the rest of their lives – even though they probably thought they would be safe for half their lives.

According to neighbors, Heike Kötting’s parents never got over the death of their daughter. They moved from Dortmund to Cologne, have since died.