Deceased/Not Found Australia - Louise Bell, 10, Hackham West, SA, 3 Jan 1983 *D. Pfennig guilty*

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-...pfennig-sentenced-35-years-non-parole/8095906

Louise Bell trial: Dieter Pfennig sentenced to 35 years prison for the 1983 murder of Adelaide schoolgirl

Dieter Pfennig will remain in a prison cell for the rest of his life after he was sentenced to 35 years without parole for the murder of 10-year-old Adelaide schoolgirl Louise Bell in 1983.
Added to Pfennig's previous sentence for an unrelated murder, it makes a combined total of 60 years in prison without being eligible for parole.

 

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Louise Bell murder: Dieter Pfennig's lawyer puts forward Salt Creek attacker connection
ABC News
BY COURT REPORTER REBECCA OPIE
UPDATED ABOUT 2 HOURS AGO (as at 14:56 AEST 15 September 2017)

'The Court of Criminal Appeal has heard claims the man convicted over the Salt Creek backpacker attacks could be connected to the murder of Adelaide schoolgirl Louise Bell in 1983.

Former school teacher Dieter Pfennig, now aged 69, was charged with Louise's murder in 2013 after advances in DNA technology linked him to the 10-year-old's pyjama top which was found on a neighbour's property.

On Friday Pfenning's counsel Paul Charman said they wanted access to the DNA profile of Roman Heinze, 61, who was jailed over a brutal attack on two foreign backpackers earlier this year.'

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...nnected-louise-bell-murder-court-told/8948742

 

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Louise Bell murder case: Guilty verdict 'unsafe and unsatisfactory', defence lawyer says
ABC News
BY COURT REPORTER CANDICE PROSSER
UPDATED 58 MINUTES AGO (as at 16.35 AEDT 15 November 2017)

‘A man convicted of murdering Adelaide schoolgirl Louise Bell, who was abducted from her bedroom in 1983, has argued on appeal that the guilty verdict was "unsafe and unsatisfactory" because forensic evidence cannot prove how his DNA got on her pyjama top.’

Read more at:

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-...on-unsatisfactory-due-to-dna-evidence/9153100

 

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Louise Bell killer Dieter Pfennig loses appeal against conviction

By court reporter Rebecca Opie
Updated May 01, 2018 15:34:23

The convicted killer of 10-year-old Adelaide girl Louise Bell has lost an appeal against his murder conviction.
Dieter Pfennig had argued to the South Australian Court of Criminal Appeal that DNA evidence used to convict him could not prove his guilt beyond doubt.
He had been convicted of murdering the girl, whose body was never located, after her abduction from her bedroom at Hackham West in 1983.
Pfennig was given a non-parole period of 35 years for the crime.

He was already serving a non-parole term of more than three decades for murdering South Australian boy Michael Black and abducting and raping a teenager.
He was charged with the Bell murder in 2013, based on evidence gathered using DNA technology advances.
The 70-year-old tried to argue his DNA could have been innocently transferred to Louise Bell's pyjama top prior to her abduction and murder.
But the court found all of the evidence against Pfennig "established a cogent basis for the judge's verdict" and excluded any "innocent hypothesis" for the presence of his DNA on the top.

The appeals court found the argument was "so unlikely, given the state of scientific knowledge, that the trial judge was correct to reject the hypothesis as fanciful".
"It was open for the trial judge to be satisfied of the appellant's guilt beyond reasonable doubt, having regard to all of the evidence, including circumstantial evidence which, coupled with the DNA evidence, established a cogent basis for the judge's verdict," the court ruled.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-01/dieter-pfennig-loses-appeal-against-conviction/9715574

 

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This month marks 40 years...rest in peace, Louise.