A person was arrested on Tuesday in Western Australia over the homicide of a German backpacker, a breakthrough within the 17-year seek for the lady's killer.
The 42-year-old man was arrested at a house in Western Australia, police mentioned, two years after authorities provided a Aus$1 million (US$695,000) reward for data surrounding Simone Strobel's dying in 2005.
Australian media recognized the person as Tobias Friedrich Moran, previously often called Tobias Suckfuell, who was Strobel's former boyfriend. Moran made a short look within the Perth Magistrates Court docket on Tuesday, ABC North Coast reported.
Strobel was 25 years previous when she disappeared from a caravan park after an evening out together with her boyfriend and pals within the small coastal city of Lismore on Australia's east coast.
Her physique was found six days later, hidden below palm fronds at a close-by sports activities floor.
Regardless of a coronial inquest in 2007 and in depth investigations involving native and Bavarian police, officers are but to cost anybody associated to the killing.
Detectives will now switch the person to the jap state of New South Wales.
"Investigators are persevering with to work with their worldwide counterparts, with investigations persevering with," police mentioned in a press release.
