In the years 1960, 1964, and 1967, two boys and a girl — Walter Broschat (9), Klaus-Dieter Stark (9), and Eveline Lübbert (10) — disappeared.
[2] In 1973, a re-examination of the facts, in conjunction with offender profiling, brought new insights into the case.
[1] Following a checkout procedure, thousands of men in Pirmasens and the surrounding area were screened on the basis of suspicion.
Instead of an arrest warrant, the district court of Zweibrücken ordered that he be admitted to a hospital in October 1974.
The man consistently denied involvement and was released following a trial in March 1976 at the district court of Zweibrücken.