Rottweil: Verdict in murder trial over body in car roof box | Area

Rottweil (Baden-Württemberg) – Marc F. (21) last lived with his mother. Now he is in prison for killing his mother in a dispute over money.

Unemployed man from Schramberg (Baden-Wurttemberg) killed Sandra’s mother († 54) with a meat tenderizer and put her body in a car roof box. For this he was charged before the Rottweil regional court. On Wednesday, the panel sentenced him to seven years in prison for involuntary manslaughter under the juvenile criminal law.

Police found the roof box in the basement stairs and took it out

Photo: Private

According to the prosecutor’s office, he is said to have squandered most of the family’s assets after his father’s death (2022). When the mother noticed this, a fight broke out.

Debates about money are increasing

Horrible act on February 20, 2025: Sandra F. got home from work at 3 p.m. He was said to be upset that the rent had not been paid and his salary had been understated.

Sandra F. was found dead in the roof box

Sandra F. was found dead in the roof box

Photo: Michael Hahn

Public Prosecutor: “The mother threatened her child to revoke his account authority.” This made Marc F., who faked his training position to his mother, “upset and angry.”

Visitors did not expect there to be a corpse in the bedroom

According to prosecutors, he hit his mother in the head ten times with a meat tenderizer. She then went shopping and ran into an unsuspecting friend while her mother lay dead in the bedroom.

Marc (20) lives with his mother and is now suspected of killing her. When the photo was taken, he was still a minor

Marc (20) lives with his mother. Now he is suspected of killing him. When the photo was taken, he was still a minor

Photo: Michael Hahn

Later that day he took the car roof box out of the garage and put the dead mother inside. During transportation, the box got stuck in the narrow basement entrance of the apartment building. Then the police came.

Police found the body in a box

The day after the murder, Sandra F. was reported missing. Police officer found a roof box trapped with the dead mother. Marc F. arrested.

Marc F. is said to have killed his mother with a meat tenderizer (WMF, Profi Plus).

Marc F. is said to have killed his mother with the meat tenderizer

Photo: WMF

On the way to the patrol car, Marc F. is said to have asked: “What happens to me now? What happens to her now? Can I still see her?”

Deadly cooked chicken breast fillet

In process Marc F. read a statement: “I didn’t want any of this.” Shortly before the crime, he cooked potato wedges and chicken breast fillets. When his mother came home, he was still holding the meat tenderizer in his hand and confessed to her that he had not had any training. Then his mother screamed and slapped him. He attacked out of “panic and fear”.

At this point, in the basement of the apartment building, there was a roof rack box, reported neighbor Nuriye A. The box and the body had been removed by police officers.

The roof rack box is currently lying in the basement of the apartment building, reported neighbor Nuriye A. The box and the body have been removed by police officers.

Photo: Michael Hahn

Grandmother as one of the plaintiffs in the trial

Does grandma believe him? She mourns the loss of her daughter and sits as a plaintiff in the trial. The Public Prosecutor and General Prosecutor requested a sentence of 9 years and 3 months and saw that the criteria for low-motivated murder were met. However, the panel could not convince itself that there were signs of murder and sentenced the 21-year-old man to seven years in prison.