EP43: Buried in a Box

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In September 1981, in the idyllic village of Eiching, Bavaria, Germany, a 10-year-old girl named Ursula Herrmann was riding her bike home after having dinner at her aunt and uncle’s house. Ursula never made it back to her house and seemed to vanish into thin air. Her parents received two ransom notes and phone calls from the kidnappers but after they agreed to pay the ransom and were working out the details of the ransom drop, the communications suddenly stopped. Searchers, who were combing through the woods after Ursula had been missing for 19 days, found a strange wooden box buried in the woods. When they opened it, the mysterious disappearance of little Ursula only became more puzzling...

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Sources:https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/sep/24/ursula-herrmann-germany-kidnapping-mystery
https://chaos.press/2019/08/29/a-dead-girl-buried-in-a-box-in-the-woods-part-2-crowdsourcing-the-ursula-herrmann-cold-case/

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature, including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya, and I'm T.
0:15.0	And we are TNT Crimes and Consequences, a true crime
0:19.8	podcast. Hey Talya, hi Tanya, what's new today? You telling me a new story and it's a crazy one today. I love crazy. Is it gory? It's not gory. That's okay. But before I tell you the story, I'm going to
0:48.4	remind everyone to hit the subscribe or the follow button, whichever appears on your app, we would greatly appreciate it.
0:55.4	Yes, we would. And so are you ready?
0:57.8	I am. Our story today takes place in the very small villages of Aikin and Shondorf, and I might be
1:10.0	mispronouncing these, but they are located in the state of Bavaria in Germany.
1:14.1	Oh, this is a German case.
1:15.7	It says a German case.
1:17.4	It takes place on Tuesday, September 15, 1981.
1:22.0	Today, these two villages are still very small with only about 5,000 people
1:27.0	living there, and they're right next to each other and they're on a lake called the Amheri. They are separated by a small forest so it's in between
1:37.7	them and these two villages are the type of places people would buy vacation
1:42.2	homes in.
1:43.6	Just very idyllic and beautiful.
1:46.6	So on September 15, 1981, there was a 10-year-old girl
1:50.4	named Ursula Herman. She lived in Iking with her family, which consisted of her parents and four siblings, with Ursula being the youngest.
2:00.0	She was a fun little girl. She loved to sing in paint and she was really smart.
2:05.0	On that Tuesday, she went to school as usual.
2:09.0	And when she got home, she practiced piano with her oldest brother Michael and after practicing the piano,
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