The long search for Nancy Köhn

The Lower Saxony police have resumed investigations into a woman who has been missing since 2009. Nancy Köhn from Hechthausen in the Cuxhaven district disappeared 13 years ago. Investigators suspect a violent crime.

One trail also leads to Hamburg. The woman's car was discovered in April of that year at the "Mittlerer Landweg" S-Bahn station. Since there was no missing persons report at that time, the authorities assumed that the Ford had been parked illegally, revoked its registration and had it scrapped. Valuable evidence may have been lost as a result. The family only reported Nancy Köhn missing in July 2009.

The Lüneburg police department has offered a reward of 5,000 euros for information that helps to clarify the crime. On Wednesday, the case was already a topic in the ZDF program "Aktenzeichen XY... unsolved". After the broadcast, a little more than a dozen tips have been received by various police departments, which are now to be followed up.

"So far there hasn't been a hot lead," said the responsible chief inspector Rainer Brenner. "We will continue to do everything we can to solve the case of Nancy".

The fact that Nancy Kühn must have died as a result of a violent crime was also recently concluded by neutral investigators and students at the Nienburg Police Academy, who had once again dealt with the case, the police said.

The then 25-year-old Nancy Köhn lived with her partner in Hechthausen, in the Bornberg district, until she disappeared, probably in February 2009. At the beginning of March 2009, the young woman contacted her parents in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania via cell phone. After that, the family had heard nothing from her.

The police in Cuxhaven will receive information after the ZDF broadcast on 04721/573200. A new wanted poster was also created for the manhunt for Nancy Köhn.