A six-year-old boy found his 34-year-old mother dead on Sunday in Reichenbach-Steegen near Kaiserslautern in Rhineland-Palatinate. The police arrested her husband (52) – and suspect a crime of passion.
The child informed the police, who later arrested the woman’s 52-year-old husband in Rutsweiler an der Lauter, just a few kilometers away, police said. The American was staying in an apartment there and was suspected of having killed his wife.
According to initial information, it could be a crime of passion, it was said. For tactical reasons, the officers did not provide any information about the possible course of events or the family circumstances. The suspected perpetrator was to be brought before an investigating judge. An autopsy of the body was also planned. According to police, the child was safe and was being cared for.