Clara Gaucke was a babygirl who went missing from Hannover, Germany on June 15, 2006 with her mother Karen Gaucke.
Case[]
Clara's mother Karen had an 8 p.m. appointment with her ex-boyfriend, a manager with the TUI Group, on the evening of her disappearance to discuss child support payments for their shared daughter.
During investigations of the apartment, investigators found a large amount of blood under the kitchen counter, under the washing machine, on baseboards and the grout of the tiles. Very quickly, therefore, investigators suspect that something happened to Clara's mother Karen and Clara herself and that the child's father had something to do with the disappearance. However, searches for Clara and Karen were unsuccessful.
In a circumstantial trial, Clara's child father and Karen's ex-boyfriend was convicted of the murder of the two missing persons. According to the evidence, Clara and Karen stood in the way of the suspect's new life, as he was expecting a child from a new partner. Among other things, his sneakers, on which blood from Karen was found, were decisive in this. He had then taken both of them to an unknown location in a rental car he had rented from June 15-17, 2006. Blood traces of Karen, which were found in the trunk of the rental car, also served as evidence. According to the evidence, he allegedly killed Karen and Clara because he did not want to pay him upcoming alimony payments.
In 2012, the convicted murderer died of cancer. To date, Clara and her mother Karen have not been found.
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Sources[]
- HAZ (German)
- Youtube (German)
- Süddeutsche (German)
- Clara Gaucke at the Doe Network
- Neue Presse (German)
- Stern (German)