Body of German girl kidnapped while walking dog discovered

Two men, ages 39 and 61, were reportedly arrested for Anneli’s kidnapping.

The girl, identified as Anneli-Marie R, went missing last week and a ransom note demanding €1.2 million ($1.32 million) emerged after her disappearance.

“We are working on the assumption it is Anneli”, Dresden police spokesman Thomas Knaup said Tuesday, according to the paper. Her remains were located Monday night at a local farm.

A wealthy businessman, whose teenager daughter was kidnapped and later died, is believed to have heard her screaming on the telephone before her death.

Police lifted a blackout on the reports of Anneli-Marie’s capture Monday, when her body was found in an abandoned farmyard in the village of Klipphausen, the New York Daily News reports.

On Sunday, police released a statement by the family asking the public for clues and directly addressing those who had abducted the girl.

Anneli-Marie R. was snatched off the street last week in the city of Meissen as she walked her dog.

Running out to look for her, he found the dog alive, tied up to her bicycle. “We are with you”.

The parents had appealed to the alleged perpetrators in a letter released by the police, writing: “The kidnappers should know that we will fulfill the stipulated demands in order to be able to have our child back in our arms soon”.

In 2010 kidnappers murdered Maria Bogerl, a wealthy banker’s wife, even though a ransom of €300,000 was paid.

The abduction comes just two months after the 50-year-old mentally-disabled son of German billionaire Reinhold Würth was kidnapped.