Murder of Michèle Kiesewetter

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Michèle Kiesewetter^[1] (10 October 1984 in Oberweißbach – 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn), a German police officer, was killed by neo-Nazi terrorists. On the 25 April 2007, Michèle Kiesewetter and her partner were on patrol in their police car. At approximately 2:00p.m., they stopped in a corner of a large parking lot in Heilbronn to have a lunch break. Shortly after, both officers were ambushed and shot in the head by two gunmen, approaching from behind the vehicle. Michèle Kiesewetter, sitting in the driver's seat, was fatally injured. Her partner, sitting in the passenger's seat, was heavily injured, but survived the attack. When the police and the ambulance arrived on the scene, both officers were lying on the ground, next to their car, and their handguns and handcuffs were stolen. The gunmen have also been implicated with the murders of nine other people, most with Turkish roots, between 2000 and 2006, the so-called NSU murders.

Aftermath

Following her death, the investigation focused on the so-called Phantom of Heilbronn. The investigations were concentrated in a special task force “parking lot” at the Heilbronn police department. In January 2009, the reward for clues regarding the whereabouts of the person was increased to €300,000.^[2][3]

Her service pistol, a

• List of unsolved murders
• National Socialist Underground
• Phantom of Heilbronn

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