The Scholl case
Subtitle: the deadly end of a marriage
By: Anja Reich-Osang ; translated from the German by Imogen Taylor
Contributors: Taylor, Imogen, translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781925240931
Subjects: Murder; Investigation; True crime stories
Other titles: Der fall Scholl
Work titles: Fall Scholl
Description: On a cold December morning in 2011, a woman's body is found in a forest near Berlin, hidden between tall trees under dry leaves and moss. She has been strangled in cold blood. The victim's husband, Heinrich Scholl, is devastated. He is well respected in the community, a former mayor, and had been happily married-or so it seemed-for almost fifty years. Three weeks later he is arrested, and after an eighteen-month trial is sentenced to life. To this day he pleads not guilty. Can this charming, courteous man possibly be a killer? Journalist Anja Reich-Osang followed the case from its beginning and talked to family, friends and Heinrich Scholl himself. She tells an utterly gripping story of marriage, sex and politics, in which nothing is as it seems.
Notes: Originally published in German: Ullstein extra Verlag, 2014.

Translation of: Der fall Scholl.

Translated from the German.