Found Deceased Germany - Fabian, 8, Güstrow, 10 Oct 2025

[Snoopster]

Screen capture from google maps showing Gustrow, Zehna (red pin) and Klein Upahl (village where body found)
Klein Upahl to Zehna

 

[Snoopster]

I found this photo of the pond area where Fabian's body was found. It's on BILD and much of the article is behind a paywall.

Fabian tot gefunden: Brandspuren bei Klein Upahl entdeckt

 

[seasideForest]

This is from my local newspaper: Vermisster Fabian ist tot - Erneute Spurensuche am Fundort

There are 6 photos all of which, except the final one of candles outside a church, are from today.
The police thought they'd finished searching the area around the little pond, but decided to go back. They're not disclosing reasons for that atm so as not to jeopardise their investigation. They also said they will be remaining tight-lipped.

Another article from today Güstrow: Ermittlungen zum Tod Fabians – Tümpel wird abgepumpt
with a little 50-second film, some of it may not be from today, I'm not sure.

The articles shouldn't be paywalled. Sometimes articles from this newspaper do get paywalled but usually only if you read regularly, and then it tends to be local news, which Güstrow and area is not.

They pumped a lot of water out of the pond today - you can see that in the photos - to make their search easier. They also chopped a bunch of bushes and small trees down near the pond for the same reason.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

The parents of murdered Fabian (8) were supposed to take a last look at their dead child at the forensic medicine department to identify their beloved boy.

What, excuse me, but that is not how identification of people is supposed to be done anymore 1) to spare the family from more trauma and 2) because people don't always get an identification right, even of a loved-one. Authorities should have to use something like DNA anyway. Even rapid DNA technology is available.

(Of course if a family really wants the closure of seeing their loved-one, that's different.)

It wasn't a random person who found Fabian's body. It was Fabian's father's ex-girlfriend.

That's quite a coincidence! But it could just be a coincidence.

 

[Snoopster]

To answer my own question about whether the ex-gf lived near Upsahl....I saw a reference to an RTL article that mentioned that she lived 15 km away. ....so it is even more coincidental now that she was the one who found him.

I am trying to find the direct RTL link.

I did find this quote though:

In an RTL interview, Dorina L. wonders why the woman who had been with her child's father for four years found the dead eight-year-old in the woods. "I can't imagine she was just walking there by chance—why there? She has a forest right on her doorstep," says Fabian's mother. "Something's not right."

[above is translated from German using google translate]
Fabians (†8) Mutter meldet sich nach brisanter Enthüllung

 

[Snoopster]

Further to the above and from the same link, the ex-gf said the following:

"I don't understand why I'm the focus now," she says. "Fabian was like my own child. I was his foster mother, so to speak, for four years."

I could understand the 'coincidence' if she was a minor player in Fabian's life and if she lived in the immediate area. But....I guess stranger things have happened?

ETA: and the ex-gf just split with Fabian's dad in August, so pretty recent. Brisante Enthüllung! Ausgerechnet SIE fand Fabians (†8) Leiche