{"id":137545,"date":"2025-10-22T04:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T04:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T04:38:13","slug":"police-searching-for-missing-teen-rebecca-reusch-scour-grandparents-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137545\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for missing teen Rebecca Reusch scour grandparent’s home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebecca Reusch, 15, vanished after visiting her sister and brother-in-law back in 2019 – now police are carrying out a search where they believe her remains could be\"AInvestigators are searching for Rebecca Reusch(Image: POLICE BERLIN HANDOUT)<\/p>\n

There are hopes of a major breakthrough in the case of missing 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch as police pursue new leads and search a property linked to her grandparents.<\/p>\n

Police announced this morning the property belongs to the grandparents of Rebecca’s brother-in-law, who has been a suspect since she vanished in 2019. Detectives have alleged Rebecca may have been killed by her brother-in-law on the morning of February 18 of that year.<\/p>\n

Authorities have been unable to find a body since she vanished. Despite this, the brother-in-law – now 33 – was arrested twice back in March 2019 before being released due to a lack of evidence.<\/p>\n

\"ARebecca vanished in February 2019(Image: POLICE BERLIN HANDOUT)READ MORE: Louvre robbery: All the major security failings that led to seven-minute heist<\/a>READ MORE: Hand-sized spider that eats fish spotted in UK homes after nearly going extinct<\/a><\/p>\n

The public prosecutor’s office said in a statement, they suspect “the now 33-year-old accused may have killed his then 15-year-old sister-in-law on the morning of February 18, 2019, and taken her body and belongings \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 to his grandparents’ property in Tauche.”<\/p>\n

Schoolgirl Rebecca was reported missing after she spent the night at the home of her sister and brother-in-law in the Berlin suburb of Britz, in Germany. Her sister left the home early the following day and Rebecca never arrived at school.<\/p>\n

\"APolice are searching a property where they believe Rebecca could be (Image: POLICE BERLIN HANDOUT)<\/p>\n

On the day Rebecca vanished, her brother-in-law’s car was seen on the A12 motorway heading toward Frankfurt, in central Germany. Investigators are now searching the property in Brandenburg, a county some 54 miles southwest of the German capital.<\/p>\n

Officers are searching the home and a garage area using a drone, as well as using ground-penetrating radar and an excavator, reported RBB24<\/a>. A cadaver dog was also used at the location and nearby residents have also been interviewed.<\/p>\n

An estimated 115 police officers were searching the site today, reports German outlet Die Zeit<\/a>. Further investigations of the site were due to be carried out in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have urged people not to interfere with the investigation. It comes after online sleuths carried out investigations of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebecca Reusch, 15, vanished after visiting her sister and brother-in-law back in 2019 – now police are carrying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,30504,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-137545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-missing-persons","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}