The search for 13-year-old Liza T., who went missing on the morning of November 3 while on her way to school in Berlin, came to a tragic end.
Five days later, on Sunday, November 8, the minor was found dead and bound inside an abandoned house about 50 kilometers from the German capital.
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A 22-year-old German man was found seriously injured next to her body; he was considered the prime suspect in her abduction and murder.
The young man reportedly injured himself, and when police arrived, he succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning (11/11), according to the Tagesspiegel.
The 13-year-old’s last messages before she disappeared
On the morning of Tuesday, November 3, Liza left the apartment where she lived with her family in Berlin’s Marzahn neighborhood. As she did every morning, she was going to take the bus to her school, near Barniblattplatz.
As she walked toward the bus stop, which was just 400 meters from her home, she was texting with a friend. However, according to her friend’s testimony, their conversation suddenly stopped. From that moment on, the 13-year-old did not respond again.
As it turned out later, the student never boarded the bus and did not arrive at her school.
Her disappearance immediately prompted a response from the authorities, as her relatives insisted that she was not the type of child who would leave home of her own accord. Hundreds of police officers participated in the search, with the assistance of specially trained dogs, a helicopter, and even an underwater drone.
Despite the extensive mobilization, there was no trace of the minor for five days.
The discovery of her body in an uninhabited house
The case took a dramatic turn on Sunday (November 8), when a resident of Bad Freienwalde, a town near the Polish border and about 50 kilometers from Berlin, alerted the police to a break-in at a neighboring house that had been unoccupied for years.
The witness reported that someone had broken into the building. When the police arrived and entered the house, they heard a gunshot.
Inside, they found the body of a teenage girl and a man with a serious injury. Within minutes, they linked the incident to Liza’s disappearance; according to Die Welt, the girl was found tied up.
The autopsy performed the following day confirmed the identity of the 13-year-old, though it was unable to determine the cause of her death. According to the German news agency dpa, forensic examinations showed that the minor had died some time before she was found.
“There was no indication that she was there. Ultimately, it was a pure coincidence that the report of unauthorized entry into the building led to her discovery,” said the spokesperson for the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office, Michael Petsold, according to German media reports.
The man found injured next to Lisa’s body was 22 years old, a German citizen, and lived with his parents in the Marzahn neighborhood, less than 800 meters from the 13-year-old’s home.
According to *Die Welt*, he was very familiar with the area where the girl lived, while the parents of his ex-girlfriend live near Bad Freienwalde, where the body was found.
Investigators determined that the young man had already come to the attention of law enforcement. Since January 2025, he had been under investigation on suspicion of acquiring and possessing child sexual abuse material.
Authorities are still seeking answers to critical questions, such as how Liza died, whether she knew the 22-year-old, and whether there may have been an accomplice in the case.
According to Bild, several local residents reported that in recent days they had heard screams coming from the unoccupied house.
Source: Proto Thema
