Cops have found a sex doll in a convicted paedophile’s abandoned house that they claim resembles a missing girl known as the ‘Germany’s Madeleine’ who vanished without a trace eight years ago.
Inga Gehricke, who has often been compared to Madeleine McCann, went missing at the age of five during a family barbeque in a forest near the town of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, on 2nd May, 2015.
She was last spotted in the company of other children when they headed to collect wood for a campfire, after which she was never seen again.
But after her disappearance, mystifying investigators for years, the new lead recently linked her disappearance with convicted paedophile Martin H., aged 41, from the city of Berlin.
Lawyer Steffen Tzschoppe, who represents Inga’s brother, told German newspaper Bild: “He originally comes from near Stendal, not far from Wilhelmshof [district], where Inga disappeared.”
The lawyer claimed authorities have a 1,900-page file on the offender, who is already serving prison for previous sexual abuses of children.
Cops were reportedly puzzled when they rushed inside the offender’s ruined house in the area of Scheuder, near the town of Dessau, and found bricked windows, soundproof doors and countless mattresses placed inside a basement dungeon.
The dungeon could only be reached through a hatch estimated at 40 by 40 centimetres (15.7 by 15.7 inches) in size, police reported.
They additionally discovered full bondage kits and BDSM toys for women.
Some time later in a search of his apartment in Berlin, they found silicone sex dolls, one of which they claimed realistically resembled then five-year-old Inga.
Tzschoppe said: “In May 2015, shortly after Inga’s disappearance, this offender used an excavator on his property.”
Martin H. had reportedly also dismantled his car on the property at the same time, claimed the lawyer.
Unwilling to reveal too many details, he added: “The Stendal investigators dropped the trail because they believed the man’s alibi. In my opinion, however, the alibi is very doubtful.”
Tzschoppe pointed out the mistakes in the previous investigations and revealed that detectives hadn’t analysed the paedophile’s extensive file yet for further possible links.
He claimed that they reportedly stopped further examinations after only 11 days of investigations in 2019.
They also reportedly added several new pages to the file, which were at the time unavailable for other members of the team to check.
Saxony-Anhalt’s government is now expected to deal with the case on Thursday, 9th March.
Inga’s parents will be present at the meeting for the first time ever.
The investigation continues.
