Christina Becker

Christina Becker (28th June, 1975 – 28th January, 1998) was a German university student who was apparently murdered.

Since 1994 Becker, hailing from Essen, was a student at the University of Münster. After having disappeared without explanation on her way home in the night of 28 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 6 March, her body was found at the verge of a federal road in Nordwalde near Münster. She had been choked with her own scarf.

The homicide squad comprised at times more than 30 police officers and so was the largest hitherto ever formed in Münster. As part of the investigation, saliva samples of more than 10,000 persons were examined. Not till the murder of Maria Beuting in Vreden, Germany on 4 August, 2001 and the apprehension of a suspect from Freudenberg in November 2001 did suspicion emerge that "Torsten S." also killed Becker. In June 2002 he 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.

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