The "Jenni case"

How her mother was able to convict the murderer

Brigitta Scharinger has carried out countless excavations in the woods where she suspected her daughter's body was buried. She now wants to have the mortal remains of her beloved child cremated and erect a memorial for the ashes with the urn. In her garden. Next to Jenni's rose bush.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/zvg)

In January 2018, Jenni Scharinger disappeared from her apartment in Vienna without a trace. Her mother knew even then that she must have been the victim of a crime. And remained on the trail of her daughter's ex-boyfriend, whom she believed to be the perpetrator. Until he made a confession.

When Jenni Scharinger met up with a friend in a pub in Vienna's Gürtelbögen district on the evening of 21 January 2018, she was in a good mood - and tense at the same time. The conversation between the two young women was correspondingly ambivalent. At first they talked about funny experiences from the past; the later it got, the more the 21-year-old talked about her big problems. With Clemens T.