Threat Letters and Stalking – A Mantrailer Operation by Kurtz Investigations Berlin Confirms the Perpetrator and Forces the Police to Act

When Mrs Steffens (name changed) and her husband came to the office of Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin a few weeks ago, they appeared deeply distressed. For more than a year they had been victims of threatening letters, defamation and false orders placed in their names. Although the Steffens had involved the police, meticulously compiled a file documenting every incident and opened and preserved the letters correctly, the authorities nevertheless saw no reason to carry out investigative measures. Taking fingerprints from the two main suspects, for example, was considered too expensive.

 

We would therefore like to illustrate how many criminal offences are actually fulfilled according to the analysis of Kurtz Investigations Berlin:

 

• § 185 Insult
• § 186 Defamation (up to two years’ imprisonment if disseminated in writing)
• § 187 Malicious defamation
• § 223 Bodily harm: Mr Steffens’ alcoholism, which had returned, as well as his heart problems have caused a significant impairment of health that may be the result of psychological influence caused by the content of the threatening letters.
• § 238 Stalking
• § 240 Coercion

 

That the uniformed officers could speak of a minor matter in view of such a list is quite astonishing. Where the authorities are no longer willing to help, the private investigators of Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin step in. Thanks to Mrs Steffens’ exemplary record-keeping, our Berlin private investigators were quickly able to familiarise themselves with the case and gain an overview of the situation. One suspect could soon be ruled out by our investigators, leaving only Mr Steffens’ ex-wife and the constantly quarrelling neighbour as possible perpetrators. Thanks to the excellent cooperation of our clients, our Berlin detectives were able to obtain a handwriting analysis and thereby exclude the ex-wife as the author of the letters.

 

Several unpleasant incidents from the past directed the focus of our detectives entirely towards the neighbour. One interesting aspect: the letters had been typed on an electric typewriter – exactly such a machine could be seen from the street inside the house of the suspected neighbour. Eventually our Berlin private investigators succeeded in obtaining a fingerprint from the suspect. A comparison with the fingerprints found on the threatening letters produced a positive result. Unfortunately, however, this evidence was not yet admissible in court.

 

For this reason Kurtz Investigations Berlin requested the assistance of one of the leading mantrailer handlers in Germany: Helmut Becker-Zang – regularly consulted with great success by the Berlin State Criminal Police Office and the Federal Criminal Police Office in missing person cases. Scent traces that our private investigators had been able to secure from the most recent threatening letter (three weeks old) served as the starting point for the keen noses of the dog “Miss Marple” and her colleagues. Three different dogs were given the scent sample from the letters at the Steffens’ letterbox. All three mantrailers ran straight to the front door of the suspected neighbour, thereby providing another important indication that will finally suffice to compel the police to conduct their own fingerprint comparison and to seize and examine the electric typewriter.

 

“Mr Kurtz, you cannot imagine the weight that has been lifted from my heart,” were Mrs Steffens’ first words after receiving the good news. The psychological terror will come to an end, and the Steffens can finally sleep peacefully again.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin thanks Mr Becker-Zang and his outstanding mantrailer team for their once again reliable and successful work.

A BZ article on the subject “Super sniffer”:

http://www.bz-berlin.de/ratgeber/tiere/tierischer-bulle-mit-riecher-article654812.html.