On Wednesday began in Wiesbaden, Germany, before the district court the trial against the now 50-year-old woman and her 57-year-old alleged accomplice. You are supposed to have killed more than 20 years ago together a woman. The victim was the wife of the accused, and would, according to the Prosecutor’s office for a divorce. The Couple is because of joint murder in court.

The defendants would have stunned the woman in October 1997, in the bathtub and then under water until you drowned, said the Prosecutor’s office. After that, the 57-year-old man and his beloved had cleaned up the crime scene and manipulated to the point that it looked like a suicide.

Dead in the bathtub

The 37-year-old woman was dead in the bathtub found. Special adhesive foils should then back up in the investigation of traces left on the corpse. As the Material was investigated with new methods again, found investigators DNA of the accused. The procedure was recorded in November 2017.