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An 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing American tourist Amy Lopez in Koblenz in 1994 as his murder trial opened; prosecutors say he killed to satisfy sexual urges, DNA linked him, and the decades-old case is headed toward a September verdict.
An 81-year-old man admitted at the opening of his Koblenz trial to sexually assaulting and killing American tourist Amy Lopez in 1994. Prosecutors say he killed her in a treacherous, base-motive act to satisfy sexual urges after luring her to a secluded room in the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress; her body was later found by children. The cold case was solved years later through new DNA analysis linking the attacker to evidence on the victim. He was arrested in February and is in pretrial detention; eight trial days are planned with a verdict expected in September.
The European Space Agency is investigating a weekend fireball that lit up skies across Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, which broke apart into meteorites and punched a football-sized hole in a Koblenz, Germany home; no injuries were reported. ESA's planetary defence team is analyzing data on the object, thought to be a few metres wide, noting that such objects strike Earth periodically and are often not seen by telescopic surveys.
German police arrested an 81-year-old man in Koblenz for the 1994 murder and sexual assault of American student Amy Lopez after advances in DNA technology and re-examining evidence led to a match between a saliva sample and DNA found in Lopez's jeans. The suspect had a prior 1999 conviction for attempted rape; his genetic data, once deleted, was re-accessed to secure the arrest, and he is now in pretrial detention as investigators continue the case decades after the crime.