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Photo of Marcel Hesse provided by police in Bochum. AP/Bochum Police
Marcel Hess

Fugitive German teenager who bragged about murder of child is arrested as police find second body

Marcel Hesse was arrested after a three day manhunt.

GERMAN POLICE HAVE arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of stabbing a nine-year-old boy to death and bragging about the murder in an online video.

Police have also discovered another body.

The man, named as Marcel Hesse, was arrested after he went into a restaurant in the northern town of Herne Thursday night and shouted: “Call the police, I’m wanted”, Bild newspaper reported.

Authorities had been hunting for Hesse for several days after they were alerted by people who had viewed the clip on the “darknet”, a hidden online arena notoriously used by criminals to trade weapons, drugs and child pornography.

A team of police discovered the child’s corpse on Monday when they searched the cellar of the suspect, who has been described as an unemployed and socially withdrawn man not previously known to authorities.

The child had been Hesse’s neighbour and investigators said they could not rule out that he had also killed a woman.

After his arrest last night, Hesse put the investigators on the trail of an apartment he had just burned and in which a second dead body was found.

In a conversation on the internet Hesse had said that he had “fought a beast of 120 kilos” and that “she put up more of a fight than the child.”

Comments are closed as legal proceedings are ongoing.

© – AFP 2017

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