Found Deceased Germany - Dorota Galuszka-Graniecznyan, 29, Süsterseel, 18 Oct 2016 *found in 2023*

[ZaZara]

MISSING DOROTA: HER CASE SHOULD NOT DISAPPEAR INTO A DRAWER

Aachener Zeitung
https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lok...oll-nicht-in-schublade-verschwinden-1.1622018

(...) But there are people who do not let the case of Dorota drop from their minds. One of them is Johanna Balla. She wants the search for Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny to continue. That is why she has organized a concert with a group of about ten people who, like Dorota, all have Polish roots. The proceeds are to go to the family of the missing woman, so that they can finance further searches.

Johanna Balla and her Polish acquaintances have also been searching on their own. They called upon the community, for example, to scour the undergrowth of several parts of the forest near Süsterseel. At first with the hope of finding her alive. But the belief that she was still alive started to dwindle rapidly. "We will no longer find her alive. But hope dies last," according to Johanna Balla, who lives in Waldfeucht-Haaren.

In this case a private investigator was already contracted. Several clairvoyants have tried to shed some light on the darkness. One told a private broadcaster that he knew quite well where the body of the woman was. "In the Wegberger Forest," he said convincingly into the TV camera. The investigation authorities did not take action upon this notice.

Almost seven months after the evening of October 18 remains the focal point of all the investigations and speculations, Johanna Balla says that she still firmly believes that Dorota was killed. "Such a young man does not simply disappear. She does not just leave and leaves her child behind," she says. She did not know Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny personally, by the way. The other people from the group, who went looking for her remains, had no contact with her either.

But they want to help anyway. Dorota's family lives too far away. The sister in Bavaria, the rest in Poland. The father has recently died. "We have to do something," says Johanna Balla. She remains in close contact with Dorota's family.

Balla does not want to say what exactly the money will be used for that is raised by the charity concert. In police circles, they would say that they were silent for reasons of investigation. But she promises that it will be used for the search. "The police have stopped investigating. But we want to keep trying. We do not want her case to disappear in some drawer," Johanna Balla says.

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[ZaZara]

Dorota zaginęła w Niemczech. Ojciec z rozpaczy zmarł na zawał

Dorota vanished in Germany. Her father died of despair of a heart attack


FAKT24.pl
http://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/polska/slask/dorota-galuszka-granieczny-zaginela-w-niemczech/hf1j6j5


"It's been eight months since my daughter's disappearance. My husband died of despair of a heart attack. I'm not sleeping at night and I'm crying - Barbara Gałuszka, 58, from the town of Radlin (Silesian province) says. Dorota (30 years) went missing in Germany. The police have stopped searching for the Polish woman. Are there still chances to find her?

Dorota Gałuszka-Granieczny had been living in German Selfkant for 11 years. She had a husband Manfred (35 years) and a son Konrad (7th). She worked in a pizzeria and a kindergarten. But the relationship did not work out well. It is known that the beautiful blonde wanted to leave her husband. "She disappeared just after she told Manfred she did not want to be with him," Dorota's mother tells us.

Only after 3 days, the man reported his wife missing. He convinced the policemen that the Polish woman had left. - "that is nonsense. Dorota would never leave her son, she would not leave without a purse, without glasses and without a phone! " Mrs. Barbara tells us. And adds that two clairvoyants told her that her daughter was murdered, and the body was buried near the house, near the water.

German police initially arrested the husband of Dorota, but they released him after a short while, because no trace of blood was found in the apartment. However, he still has the status as a suspect of committing the crime. "The German police have suspended the search because they no longer have a clue. The Polish police can not investigate until the German side asks for it, " Barbara says through her tears, while she is staring at her beloved daughter's picture." I'm a bunch of nerves, and I do not have any contact with my grandson, my son-in-law has changed all the numbers. I am convinced that he has the life of my daughter on his conscience. Either he did it himself or he made use of other hands. I hope that at last I will find out what happened to my Dorota! My husband did not wait. He died of a heart attack on May 6.

The family does not stop searching. Poles living in Germany and the Netherlands are involved in the action, with special groups with tracking dogs. The sister of missing Dorota - Katarzyna, who lives in Germany, has created a special account to fund the investigation.


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:rose: RIP Andrzej Gałuszka. May Dorota's lovely smile await you in heaven.

 

[chimpface]

So sad that her Father died without any closure

 

[ZaZara]

DOROTA MISSING: THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED

Aachener Zeitung
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/loka...htigste-frage-ist-nicht-beantwortet-1.1738344

The note fluttering in the wind at a bus stop on this cool October morning may be a symbol that hope dies last. Everyone in Selfkant knows the face of the woman depicted there. The young woman, Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny, has been missing for a year this Wednesday . It's a case without a hot lead. But it is also a case that some people do not want to let go.

What happened in Süsterseel on the evening of 18 October 2016 is still completely unclear. Officially, only the version of the husband of the missing woman is on the table, which the police spread three days after the disappearance of the woman. According to the report, she left the shared house on Annastraße at about 11 pm. She is said to have worn jeans, a leather jacket and shoes with high heels.

Later it became known that the then 29-year-old had neither her glasses nor her mobile phone with her when she left the house. A relationship between the disappeared and another man from which a quarrel resulted with her husband was also reported later.

Above all, there remains a question: has Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny simply left to never be seen again or has she been killed?

Nor can the homicide squad, set up by the police in Aachen, give an answer. The proceedings will be suspended until further information is received, according to Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, spokesperson of the public prosecutor's office in Aachen. But there are currently no such indications. So the Dorota file remains closed.

The family of the missing woman does not want to settle for this. Nor does a group of Polish private individuals from the Heinsberg district. This group includes Johanna Balla, who organized searches and a charity party. She doesn't know Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny personally. But she thinks she has to do something. Because the family lives so far away. Because the police aren't looking anymore.

At their "Charity Party" in Heinsberg, 800 euros were raised. Balla gave the money to the missing woman's family so they could hire a private detective from Poland. Balla doesn't know when this private investigator will investigate in Selfkant. It seems as if Balla doesn't even know how she can continue to support the search. "What else should we do? We've been walking all over the place for an entire winter. We looked everywhere," she says. At the moment, her hopes are focused on two men with their dogs.

After the proceedings had already been terminated in March, the police took action once again. In September Patrick De and Michele Carbone had led their German Shepherd dogs to a property in Süsterseel. The dogs of De and Carbone are trained to find people, dead or alive.

Patrick De describes what he and Carbone do as voluntary support for the families of missing persons. "We're here to help people. If you miss someone, it drives you crazy," he says. No money is accepted by his search and rescue dog organization "Luky", that is based in Diepenbeek, Belgium. He had offered help to the Dorota family. And then they came.

It seemed as if the police had already combed every corner of Süsterseel. At the beginning of November last year, they arrived with a Hundertschaft as well as dogs and divers. They searched woodlands and lakes. They searched the house where the missing woman lived with her husband and child. They evaluated images from a surveillance camera hanging on a neighbor's house. They expanded their search to the Netherlands. Nothing produced sound results.

That was the time when Süsterseel seemed to be upside down. The village in the Selfkant is big enough with over 1600 inhabitants that not everyone knows each other personally. However, it is also small enough that a case like the one of the missing Dorota, with all the turmoil it entails, can throw the community out of the balance for a while.

What De , a criminologist by his own account, and Carbone did with their dogs caused far less attention. The property they were looking for is overgrown. There's a couple of shrubs, trees and a shed on it. "The dogs have hit on two places," according to De .

The animals would never have been mistaken. Not when they found the missing Silke P. from Dilsen in Belgium alive. Nor when they tracked down Andy P's body in the Flemish Heers, either. The dogs of De and Carbone searched for Andy P. in a place where the police had previously used a tracking dog. It took only 15 minutes for the investigators to bring the lifeless body to light.

Patrick De looks from the footpath to the overgrown property in the middle of Süsterseel. "When the dogs hit, there's something there. We don't know if that's the woman. But there's a human body," he says.

When the police officers heard about the privatized search operation, they had a search warrant issued and had their own body tracking dog come. But he didn't find anything, Schlenkermann-Pitts says. "It wasn't possible to hide or bury anyone there." So the investigation is at a standstill again.

The homicide squad has obviously focused on the husband before. The officers accused him of killing his wife for months. But they couldn't prove anything against him. Especially since there's still no trace of the woman or her body. And because there is rarely a trial for murder or manslaughter without a corpse, the Dorota file remains closed for the time being, even one year after the disappearance of the woman.


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[ZaZara]

SEARCH & RESCUE DOGS CONTINUE THE SEARCH FOR DOROTA

HLN.be
https://www.hln.be/regio/genk/-al-drie-verdwijningen-helpen-oplossen~a5ddc65e/

Genk, Belgium. In June last year, the 'Search and Rescue Dog Association Luky' was founded. Less than a year later, they have already helped in three cases of disappearances. Next month, the team returns to Germany, hoping to find a trail of the missing girl Dorota Galuszka.

"Next month we will be in Germany, where the 29-year-old Dorota Galuszka has still not been found. We hope to achieve something. In Germany and the Netherlands there is good cooperation between the police and dog teams like ours."


BBM


Never forget, never give up.

 

[ZaZara]

Missing 2 years today. No sign of life since October 18, 2016, after 11 o'clock pm. Left her son. Left her purse. Left her phone. Left the glasses that she badly needs.

She wanted to leave her husband, not her life.

Bring Dorota home.

 

[ZaZara]

No trace of Dorota Galuszka fore two years

Two years ago, 29-year-old Dorota Galuszka disappeared without a trace from Süsterseel. Search operations in the Heinsberg area with several hundred policemen were unsuccessful.

On 18 October 2016, the Polish native had left her house late in the evening and had not returned. After a short time her husband came under suspicion because he was the last person to see Dorota Galuzska. However, nothing could be proven against him.

To this day, the criminal investigation department assumes that the young woman has fallen victim to a violent crime. Chief Inspector Michael Fritsch-Hörmann has been busy with her disappearance for two years. He still has hope to solve the case of the missing persons. Fritsch-Hörmann told the WDR that they were prepared if an unknown woman's body appeared somewhere.

Dorota Galuzska's friends and family have always supported the search. Among other things, they commissioned a private dog squadron from the Netherlands when the police stopped the search. They also organized a charity event with bands to search for the missing woman from the proceeds.

The young woman left behind a seven-year-old son. He remained on his own when his mother left the house at 11 pm. To date, investigators have been unable to find out why Dorota Galuszka suddenly left the house late at night and didn't even take her mobile phone and glasses with her.


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[ZaZara]

Two years after the disapperance of Dorota Galuszka

Lokalzeit aus Aachen, local broadcaster for the Aachen region. Video-report.
Recap of the kown facts of Dorota's disappearance, then the Chief Inspector speaks.

Chief Inspector Michael Fritsch-Hörmann:
"We collected a lot of circumstantial evidence but these circumstantial evidence was not enough to bring him to justice. But you also have to say we didn't find anyone else who in one way or another may have kidnapped or even killed Mrs. Galuszka.
So there is no one else. So far the suspicion against the husband is still there, but it was not enough to put him on trial."

Examination of CCTV in and around Süsterseel shows no woman leaving on foot in the night of October 18.
Authotities conclude very quickly that the young Polish woman was murdered. To this day, her remains have not been found, that is why this case is so difficult to solve.

There always remains a glimmer of hope that the missing person is still alive, and there have indeed been a few cases in which this happened "but in this case, I do not believe that," according to Chief Inspector Michael Fritsch-Hörmann. "There are many, many indications that a violent crime has happened here. In this case it so happens we must find the body, then we can start again with our work or continue and then we can acieve a conclusive result."

Joanna Balla organized various searches for Dorota. She tells that the family still hopes that Dorota will be found alive, that she is being held against her will somewhere.

The Police calls on new witnesses to come forward.


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Video will be availble until 25 October 2018.

 

[ZaZara]

It's been three years since Dorota went missing.

The Aachener Nachrichten calls her disappearance

A case full of bizarre details and unanswered questions

and the rest is hidden behind a paywall. At least something is there, the rest is silence.


"Missing" poster of Dorota on FB:

 

[chimpface]

Thanks ZaZara for all your work on this case and keeping up with it

 

[ZaZara]

Thanks ZaZara for all your work on this case and keeping up with it

I want it solved! I want Dorota found!

IMHO there is no mystery here, even the police admits that the husband is the only suspect and there has never been another one. Raise your hands all of you who believe that she left the house alive and of her own free will.

I pass through the area often, and I wonder if she is there, or if indeed the husband had help from his brother and in that case, they may have hidden her anywhere, in Germany, the Netherlands or Belgium. IMHO someone knows more and they should start telling the truth.

 

[ZaZara]

Drei Jahre Suche nach Dorota: Ein Fall voller skurriler Details und offener Fragen

Three years of searching for Dorota : A case full of bizarre details and unanswered questions

Selfkant-Süsterseel Three years ago Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny disappeared from Süsterseel. German police, Belgian private detectives and Polish fortune-tellers searched intensively for the young mother - in vain. A review of a case full of bizarre details.

In the case of Dorota, one thing prevails above all: standstill. The investigation file with the police is closed for the time being. No new clues, no new investigative approaches, no trace of Dorota. Should the assumption be correct that the then 29-year-old was murdered, the case could be resumed at any time. Because murder has no statute of limitations.

The disappearance of Dorota marks its third anniversary on Friday. In October 2016, the police had announced that the young woman had left the family home on Annastrasse in Selfkant-Süsterseel around 11 pm on the evening of 18 October and had since disappeared. In any case, this is what the husband told the police. The same husband who was in custody shortly afterwards because the police suspected him of having killed his wife. Shortly after his arrest, however, he was released. The initial suspicion could not be substantiated.

In the following weeks Süsterseel did not find peace. The police searched the house on Annastrasse, they combed through adjoining woodland with hundreds of dogs, they searched by boat, they extended their searches to the Netherlands. All without success. Dorota was not found. This week, Chief Prosecutor Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts, spokeswoman for the Aachen public prosecutor's office, said that the investigators were keeping their eyes open, but that there was nothing new at the moment. "There are currently no plans for anything to be done," she said.

Apart from the official investigations of the police there were always new absurdities. A group of volunteers searched surrounding woods on their own. Fortune teller Michael Schneider intervened, on private television he announced where the body must lie. This did not quite coincide with the findings of another fortune teller from Poland. Later the Belgian private investigators Patrick De and Michele Carbone came with their search dogs. They bet on more solid clues and let their dogs search on a property in Süsterseel and at an abandoned house in Geilenkirchen. They did not find a hot trace either.

Rumors, emotions and suspicions - again and again the Dorota case landed on the colourful sides of the boulevard. Dorota is young, blond and attractive. And her surroundings constantly provided material for new stories. Dorota's husband is said to have talked to the Bild newspaper about the amicable separation from his wife. Then, however, text messages appeared that allegedly went from Dorota to her twin sister: They say that her husband has been causing problems since she confronted him with the desire to separate.

A private detective from Poland was then supposed to track down the missing facts. He was in the region shortly after Dorota's disappearance in 2016. This autumn, he investigated again in the Netherlands. Johanna Balla and a group of people with Polish roots from the Heinsberg area repeatedly tried to keep the search for Dorota going.

To this day, she has not let go of the case, even though she did not know Dorota personally. Balla said she had collected the money for the private detective. He found out that Dorota was no longer alive. However, he was unable to provide any evidence or conclusive circumstantial evidence. Now he is not investigating any further. The money collected has been used up.

The central question of what happened to Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny remains unanswered to this day. It is noteworthy that a homicide squad was set up in October 2016, soon after the disappearance of the woman. At that time only the husband's version that Dorota had left the house, her husband and her son was publicly known.

Schlenkermann-Pitts confirmed that investigators still believe the woman was murdered. But you can't rule out that she is still alive. "Maybe she'll turn up somewhere in America in five years," said Schlenkermann-Pitts.

BBM


No longer behind a paywall:

It's been three years since Dorota went missing.

The Aachener Nachrichten calls her disappearance

A case full of bizarre details and unanswered questions

and the rest is hidden behind a paywall. At least something is there, the rest is silence.


"Missing" poster of Dorota on FB:

 

[ZaZara]

Mord, Totschlag, Raub: Neue Ermittlungen bei 80 ungeklärten Schwerverbrechen


Murder, manslaughter, robbery : New investigations into 80 unsolved serious crimes

Düsseldorf The State Criminal Police Office takes up hundreds of old cases - so-called cold cases. Now new investigations are being initiated, also in the Aachen, Düren, Heinsberg region.

Specialists from the NRW State Criminal Police Office (LKA) have found possible leads in about 80 unsolved cases of murder and manslaughter, which could help to solve the crimes after all. A spokesman for the LKA explained this on Tuesday. So far, 168 of the approximately 1100 unsolved cases, so-called cold cases, have been processed, digitized and entered into a new database at the LKA. In about half of the cases, the profilers have discovered leads that could possibly be used to solve the crime in question.

Michael Fritsch-Hörmann, head of the Criminal Investigation Department 11 at the Aachen Police Headquarters, who is responsible for almost all murder cases in the Aachen, Düren, Heinsberg region, said in an interview with our newspaper on Tuesday that he and his colleagues had so far sent about 30 unsolved crimes to the LKA, dating back to 1994. Of the 80 cases in which the LKA profilers see new investigative approaches, two are within the jurisdiction of the Aachen police headquarters. Fritsch-Hörmann did not want to say which cases are involved.

Since the beginning of 2018, the new database is being developed at the LKA in Düsseldorf. All unsolved murders in NRW since 1970 are to be digitized and stored in it. Since then, one old case, the homicide of Claudia O. in Lohmar, has been solved.

One of 1100 unsolved serious crimes in NRW: the case of Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny from Selfkant-Süsterseel. She disappeared in 2016 and was presumably murdered.


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[ZaZara]

Polacy zaginieni w Niemczech. Rozpoznajesz te osoby?

Their family, the police and the ITAKA foundation are looking for them. Do you recognize those Poles who went missing in Germany? Help us find them.

In addition to the family and the police, the ITAKA Foundation is also looking for missing persons in Germany. If you have any information about these missing men and women that ITAKA is looking for, please contact us! Your information may save someone's life.

On 18 October 2016 Dorota Gałuszka-Granieczny went missing in Selfkant-Süsterseel (Germany). She is 165 cm tall and has blue eyes. On the day of her disappearance she was 29 years old.


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[ZaZara]

It's been 4 years, 1 week and 1 day since Dorota disappeared.
I was looking for updates, there is nothing to be found.
So sad.

Dorota, you are not forgotten!

 

[ZaZara]

https://polskatimes.pl/dorota-galus...informacje-do-fundacji-itaka/ar/c1p1-22144493

Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny went missing in Selfkant-Süsterseel on 18.10.2016. Her family and the ITAKA Foundation are looking for her. The woman is 34 years old and 165 cm tall, eyes - blue. Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny has gone missing from Selfkant-Süsterseel. If you saw or have seen the person in the photo after 18.10.2016, it is imperative that you contact the ITAKA Foundation. Remember that every piece of information is valuable.

Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny has gone missing in Selfkant-Süsterseel.

She was last seen on 18.10.2016 and is being searched for by her family together with the ITAKA Foundation. If you recognise the woman in the photo, please be sure to pass this information on to the Foundation.

date of disappearance: 18.10.2016
place of disappearance: Germany, Selfkant-Süsterseel
age at the time of disappearance: 29 years
current age: 34 years
height: 165 cm
eye colour: blue

More information and a printable poster can be found on the website zaginieni.pl
ITAKA Foundation - zaginieni.pl

The website zaginieni.pl is run by the ITAKA Foundation - Polish Centre for Missing Persons Investigation.


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[ZaZara]

Dorota has been missing for 5 years and 2 weeks.

Tonight, I happened to pass through Süsterseel. It was dark and rainy, the trees were getting bare and the wind blew the last leaves away. With a small shock, I recognized the area. The restaurant, the main road where you have to stop and the triangle of roads that hides this one silent street with the house that no one saw Dorota leave, and in fact no one saw her leave the village. There is no CCTV that captured her image, huddled against the rain and wind on high heels and in a leather jacket.
On my way by car, I saw a few people on foot. Hardly anyone was alone, and most of them walked with a dog. At this time of the day, in this weather there was only one place to go: home and in bed, or on the couch.

So Dorota, wherever you are, and maybe that isn't even far from Süsterseel at all, if you felt that someone was thinking of you tonight: that was me.

The day will come that you are found. May it be sooner than later.

 

[CastlesBurning]

This article is in Polish, but establishes she is still missing:

W Selfkant-SSterseel zaginęła Dorota Gałuszka-Granieczny. Rodzina czeka. Przekaż informację do Fundacji ITAKA

 

[ZaZara]

Doorbraak in moordzaak al jaren vermiste Doro uit Süsterseel

BREAKTHROUGH IN THE MURDER CASE OF DOROTA WHO HAS BEEN MISSING FOR YEARS



Police have reached a breakthrough in the murder case of Dorota 'Doro' Galuszka-Granieczny (29), a woman from the German border town of Süsterseel who has been missing since 2016, after years.

Bodily remains suspected to belong to the missing woman were found in her husband's home on Tuesday. Galuszka-Granieczny disappeared under suspicious circumstances from her home just across the border near Jabeek in late October 2016.

A search for the whereabouts of her body was conducted in several places in the past, including in the forests of Schinveld. But this did not yield the desired result at the time.

Recently, the investigation into the murder of 'Doro' gained momentum. Her husband Manfred G. was from the start suspected of involvement in her death.

G. was arrested last Tuesday in Geilenkirchen-Gillrath after his house was searched. Parts of a body were allegedly found during the search, according to German media. These are believed to belong to the missing woman, but investigations will now have to clarify this definitively.


BBM


RIP Dorota, fly with the angels. Justice will come.



Next week, Tuesday, the Aachen public prosecutor's office plans to hold a press conference on the arrest.

 

[ZaZara]

Mordfall „Dorota“: Polizei durchsucht Haus und nimmt Dorotas Ehemann fest


Police search house and arrest Dorota's husband


Geilenkirchen/Selfkant The police searched the husband's house in Gillrath. According to information available to our newspaper, they also found body parts. The man has been arrested.

In the Dorota murder case, the police have arrested the husband of the woman missing since 2016. On Tuesday, the police had searched the man's house in Geilenkirchen-Gillrath. According to information from our newspaper, body parts were also found during the search.

Residents of Bergstraße in Gillrath had observed a major police operation on Tuesday. Aachen prosecutor Katja Schlenkermann-Pitts was able to confirm the police operation when asked by our newspaper and emphasised: "We are a good step further in the case." Apparently, the woman who disappeared in October 2016 under mysterious circumstances is dead. "However, autopsy results are not yet available," Schlenkermann-Pitts said. The public prosecutor did not want to disclose further details yet.

This should make it clear that Dorota Galuszka-Granieczny was indeed murdered. The police had suspected this immediately after the disappearance of the woman from her house in Selfkant-Süsterseel. In October 2016, Dorota's husband had told police that his wife had simply left the house they shared, never to be seen again.

Investigators obviously did not believe this version of the story. They searched for the woman's body with a large search party, but the body could not be found at that time. In the meantime, Dorota's husband had been arrested. At first, however, nothing could be proven against him.


BBM


The husband apparently moved from the house in Süsterseel to Gillrath, a few kms to the East. And he took (part of) Dorota's remains with him??