The slit throat
On the morning of May 9, 1996, a resident noticed that a red Honda CRX was blocking the entrance to the underground parking garage at Blutenbergstraße 120, not far from Rotkreuzplatz in Munich’s Neuhausen-Nymphenburg district. He wanted to ask the driver of the sports car to move his car. When he looked through the window, he saw that the man at the wheel had slumped to one side. He opened the passenger door and saw the blood-covered body of a young man. He immediately alerted the police. The dead man was 22-year-old Stefan Pecher from Truding, the son of a banker. The autopsy revealed that he had been stabbed more than 22 times and his throat had also been slit. The murder weapon was a kitchen knife with a 15-centimeter blade, which was found under the passenger seat. Who was capable of such a brutal act? The murder investigation revealed that Stefan had led a double life par excellence. He was considered an arrogant snob who bragged about earning 10,000 marks a month. Stefan wanted to get rich by investing in real estate in Costa Rica or trading luxury watches from Eastern Europe. He loved parties in posh nightclubs and always wore designer clothes. Stefan’s parents financed his sweet life, allowing him to live with them rent-free. Stefan turned out to be a fraud who had neither graduated from secondary school nor completed his apprenticeship as a hotel manager at Mövenpick. He earned a little money by working at the legendary Hotel Vier-Jahreszeiten. No one suspected that Stefan was financing his expensive lifestyle with illegal drug and weapon deals. It turned out that Stefan was involved in three robberies himself. He also dealt in large quantities of ecstasy and cocaine, the latter of which he consumed himself from time to time. He had left a bag in a friend’s apartment containing two black jumpsuits, two balaclavas, and two bulletproof vests, all of which pointed to his criminal career. On the day of his death, he had purchased a pistol with a silencer because he felt threatened. He also owned a stun gun and a baseball bat, which he kept handy in the trunk of his sports car. Shortly before his death, Stefan was carrying the incredible sum of 40,000 marks. On the evening of May 9, Stefan wanted to meet someone. To make an impression, he borrowed his father’s Cartier watch. A drug deal was also planned for that evening at Rotkreuzplatz. Stefan’s body was found not far from there. His cell phone, which probably contained the murderer’s phone number, was never found. The criminal investigation department believed that Stefan had to die because of his drug deals. They followed up on over 200 leads and clues. However, without success. A reward of 2,500 euros is still being offered for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator, as there is no statute of limitations for murder.
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