I thought this was interesting. The media are trying to link Bruckner to as many crimes as possible apparently German police are looking at this one. A mystery of a girl missing for 15 years and it attracted more than one false confession and there was DNA of a notorious individual already found near her body. So if people are wondering why people would make a false confession, it seems people like the notoriety or have mental health problems.
Police probe whether Madeleine McCann suspect snatched 'German Maddie' in 2001
'The death of Peggy Knobloch, dubbed the "German Maddie" by British tabloids over the years, has been called Germany's most mysterious criminal case
Investigators are now taking another look at Peggy's still unsolved killing to find out if paedophile Christian Brueckner, 43, was involved, it is reported.
........In 2016, DNA traces from notorious neo-Nazi Uwe Boehnhardt, who died in 2011, were found in the woods where Peggy was found.
However, a connection was never proven.
In 2018, a man, named as Manuel S, then 41, admitted dumping Peggy's body in the forest but denied killing her.
He told police another man directed him to Peggy's lifeless body at a bus stop near her home town, and he took it and buried it in the woods.
But prosecutors said Manuel was released as "there was no immediate suspicion". The suspect, who was detained for several weeks, revoked his confession and his wife insisted last year that he was innocent.
In 2002, a year after Peggy disappeared, a man with a learning disability was accused of killing her to cover up that he had sexually abused her.
He withdrew his confession, but was jailed for life in 2004 and was sent to a psychiatric hospital.
But in 2014 his conviction was overturned and he was freed.'