Ronny Rieken

Ronny Rieken is a German child murderer and serial killer. In 1996 and 1998, he killed two girls in the area surrounding Cloppenburg, northern Germany. Rieken was the first German criminal to be caught as a result of mass DNA screening. In 1998, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Justizvollzugsanstalt Celle. Murders: On 11 June 1996, Rieken abducted 13-year-old[3] Ulrike Everts from Jeddeloh II as she drove with her pony carriage at the Dortmunder Moorweg in Wardenburg. He abused her in a canal near Kempe, near a meat-processing factory where he had abused an 11-year-old five months earlier. Afterwards, he put her garments on one by one, strangled her with a diaper cloth and disposed of her body 40 kilometres away in the Ipweger Moor. Her remains were found in July 1998. On 16 March 1998, shortly after 5 PM, Rieken saw 11-year-old Christina Nytsch from Saterland, Cloppenburg, a few hundred yards from her parents' house, dragged her off her bicycle and drove her towards the Kempe canal, where he had raped and beaten Everts. When she refused to undress, he beat her and drove her to a forest near Lorup. There he forced her to undress before strangling her with a cable and stabbing the body several times with a knife. Six days later, hunters found Nytsch's body 20 kilometres from her home, barely covered up with branches and covered in hematomas. She had been raped a total of six times. In the largest manhunt in German criminal history, 1,500 square kilometres were searched with the help of thousands of volunteers. The Bundeswehr had also supported the search, surveying with thermographic cameras from the air. Traces of Rieken's semen which were found on Nytsch's body linked him to the 1996 abuse of a 9-year-old. During Easter day of 1988, as a result of a mass DNA screening, Rieken was arrested and convicted. Rieken agreed to the saliva test because his brother-in-law had suggested he should go. He was the first murderer in Germany to undergo a saliva examination and thereby transferred, contributing significantly to the public and legal acceptance of this method. As early as April 1998, when the search for Rieken was still in full swing, the DNA analysis files, a composite application by the Land Criminal Police Offices and the Federal Criminal Police, commenced operations. Trial and imprisonment: In Rieken's trial before the jury, it was said that he had been abused by his father in his childhood. The presiding judge, who had already sentenced Rieken in 1989 for the rape of his sister, expressed doubts about his father's sexual abuse. Rieken had committed his first rape at the age of 19, on a female neighbor. At 21, he raped his sister, who was two years younger than him. Rieken had choked her with a belt until this was unconscious, who then raped her twice without resistance. During his imprisonment for the act on his sister, he was not treated, but was treated only for an alcoholic disease. His original prison term of ten years had been reduced to five and a half years in the revision. Because of good behaviour, Rieken was released after just three years. A few weeks later, he abused the daughter of his future brother-in-law. The appeal lodged by Rieken against his latest ruling revision was rejected in 1999 by the Federal Court of Justice. The Oldenburg district court sentenced him to life imprisonment, resulting in a minimum detention of well over 15 years. He is now serving his sentence at Celle Prison. In March 2012, it was found that Rieken had not worked up his deeds and therefore will be released by 2021 at the earliest. On 9 May 2012, this decision was confirmed by the Celle Court, making it legally binding. In prison: Rieken is a three-time family man and a former barge. During his first prison term, he began an apprenticeship as a machinist, which he completed shortly after his premature release.