Christina Becker
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Christina Becker (* 28th June, 1975; † 28th January, 1998) was a German university student who has become known because of her tragic death.
Since 1994 Christina Becker, hailing from Essen, Germany, was a student at the University of Münster, Germany. After having disappeared without explanation on her way home in the night of 28th January, 1998, Münster police and friends of hers made an extensive effort to trace her, in which, not at least by media coverage, local residents took active interest. But the search was to be in vain, increasingly arousing fears that Christina Becker has fallen a victim of a capital offence. More than a month later, on 6th March, her body was found at the verge of a federal road in Nordwalde near Münster. She had been choked with her own scarf.
In spite of extensive investigation efforts (the homicide squad comprised at times more than 30 police officers and so was the largest hitherto ever formed in Münster - spit samples of more than 10,000 persons were examined) police first did not succeed in finding out the murderer. Not till the murder of Maria Beuting in Vreden, Germany on 4th August, 2001 and the apprehension of a suspect from Freudenberg, Germany in November 2001, suspicion emerged that this person also killed Christina Becker. In June 2002 he eventually was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment with notice of the particular gravity of his guilt (which prevents him from being paroled after 15 years) by Münster district court.
- Polizei Münster: Jahresbericht 2001, S. 10-13 (in German).
- uni press münster: Pressemitteilung vom 13. März 1998 (in German).
- RP Online: Mutmaßlicher Mörder zweier Frauen gefaßt (in German).
