The court focused mainly on a German young man and distributed a robot photo at home and abroad. “Someone around 19 years old with whom Carola was last seen the evening before her disappearance. He was someone who boasted about his judicial past, who only stayed there for a short time and then left again. For the investigators, this was the only clue and direct link they could make,” says Özgünes.
The young German was never found. Dutroux and Ronald Janssen also appear briefly and even the German Christian Brückner, who was mentioned in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. But all tracks lead to dead ends. And now, 30 years later, science may be able to investigate what was impossible at the time.