On October 4, 2006, the skeletonized body of 21-year-old student nurse Frauke Liebs was found by a hunter in a forested area in the woods near a road near Lichtenau, Germany.
Liebs was seen alive on June 20, 2006, when she was watching the FIFA World Cup match between England and Sweden at a pub in Paderborn’s city center.
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Her remains were found with the clothes she was wearing on the day of her disappearance — but her cell phone, purse, wallet, and wrist watch were missing.
While she was still at the pub, she borrowed a friend’s phone battery since her own battery was dead. She gave the battery back before leaving the pub at around 11 P.M. and — since she reportedly had no more than five Euros with her — it was believed that she planned to walk approximately one mile to her home.
At 12:49 A.M., her flatmate Christos got a text message from Lieb’s phone saying that she would be home later — but she never came back. After she failed to appear at work the day after, her mother reported her missing.
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The police later discovered that the text message had been sent from Nieheim, a small city about 20 miles northeast of Paderborn.
In the following days, Liebs’ roommate received five more calls on the mobile phone. In the first, which was received the day after she went missing, Lieb, according to an English translation provided by a German TV show, said, “Hello Christos, I just wanted to tell you I’m fine… Please tell mom and dad I’m fine,” and hung up.
Christos later told Liebs’ mother that Liebs sounded tired and distressed — and said he found it strange that she used his full name rather than his nickname, “Chris.”
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Police were able to track the calls to different industrial areas in Paderborn. During the conversations, Liebs — or the person identifying themselves as her — continued to say that she would return home soon, and gave vague answers to questions.
Liebs’ last phone call was on June 27 in the presence of her sister, who also talked to her. During this conversation, Liebs is said to have answered the question of whether she was being held captive with a faint “yes,” immediately followed by a loud “no.”
She was never heard from again.
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The body provided investigators with few clues: Due to the advanced state of decomposition, the time and cause of Liebs’ death could not be determined.
German police reportedly developed a theory that Liebs was abducted and held near Nieheim before being killed, and that the calls from Paderborn were meant to serve as a distraction.
The case has been covered extensively on German television, and there is a Facebook group (and many other online sleuths in Germany) dedicated to cracking the case — but so far, no arrests have been made and the case remains unsolved.
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