The 29-year-old suspect arrested in the Ayleen murder case has confessed to the killing of the 14-year-old from Baden-Württemberg. In the presence of his defense attorneys, he admitted that he had caused the student’s death on the night of July 22 “through physical violence and then sunk the body in Teufelsee near Echzell,” it said.
As the police and public prosecutor’s office in Gießen announced on Tuesday, the suspect from Hesse also led the investigators to the crime scene on a dirt road in the Gießen district and to the victim’s discarded clothing.
Ayleen disappeared on July 21 in Gottenheim in the Baden-Württemberg district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and was found dead in a lake in the Hessian Wetteraukreis about 300 kilometers away a good week later.
According to investigators, the man had been in a psychiatric hospital for ten years as a teenager for an attempted sexual offense and was under supervision after his release.
At the time of the spring incident, the man, a convicted sex offender, was no longer under supervisory supervision, which ended on January 25, 2022.
The 29-year-old man is said to have molested another student in the spring. At the end of April he is said to have tried to coerce a 17-year-old girl into a relationship through text messages, among other things. At the beginning of May, criminal charges were filed against the man with the police in Friedberg.