A woman on trial accused of murdering her boyfriend’s eight-year-old son allegedly Googled whether wild boars eat dead people the morning after the schoolboy was killed, a court has heard.
The latest evidence was heard at Rostock Regional Court, in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on 9 June.
Gina H., 30, is accused of killing little Fabian, from Gustrow, after allegedly luring him from his home on 10 October last year.
Prosecutors claim Fabian was stabbed six times before his body was set on fire near a pond south of Gustrow, a town around 25 miles south of Rostock in northern Germany.
The court heard on the tenth day of the trial that a police officer had examined data from Gina’s mobile phone.
The officer said Gina searched Google for “do wild boars eat people” and “do wild boars eat dead people” at 8.01am the morning after Fabian’s death.
Investigators also told the court she had searched for “police”, “police news” and police press releases from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the previous evening.
The officer said Gina had switched off her smartphone between 11.22am and 12.42pm on the day Fabian was killed.
He described this as unusual because she normally used the device intensively and the battery had been fully charged.
The court heard there had been around 300,000 interactions with Gina’s phone during the period examined by police.
Judges were also told that Gina had asked ChatGPT to write a funeral speech for Fabian before sending it to his father, Matthias R., 35.
When Matthias praised the text, Gina allegedly replied that he knew one of her great talents was writing.
In another message played to the court, Gina allegedly defended herself by saying: “I can’t even slaughter a chicken, so why would I kill a child?”
She reportedly added: “It was a bloody coincidence that I found him.”
The court also heard a voice message in which Gina told an acquaintance after Fabian’s body was found: “You will never actually know, will you? Because water corpses have no DNA traces. Burned corpses will also have few DNA traces, unfortunately that is how it is.”
German reports said Fabian’s father has continued to support Gina despite the allegations against her.
The court has reportedly heard that Gina claimed her phone had been hacked after the Google searches were raised.
Matthias is said to have accepted her explanation and continued to believe in her innocence.
Earlier in the case, prosecutors alleged Gina was jealous after Matthias ended their relationship one day before Fabian disappeared.
Reports say Gina and Matthias are now back together.
Fabian’s mother, Dorina L., sat in court as the latest phone evidence and voice messages were played.
The trial is continuing.
Gina denies the charge.
(Aloysius Fernades/Newsflash)
