On the morning of February 18, 2019, 15-year-old Rebecca Reusch was supposed to go to school. She never arrived.

The last confirmed sign of life? A Snapchat sent from inside her sister’s home in Berlin-Britz. At 7:46 a.m., her phone connected to the house Wi-Fi for the final time. After that, her digital footprint vanished.

In this episode of Serial Napper, we walk through one of Germany’s most high-profile and puzzling missing person cases. From the narrow 46-minute window inside the house… to the suspicious eastbound drives on the A12 highway… to the forest searches in Brandenburg… and the 2025 property excavation involving over 100 officers and the BKA.

Why was Rebecca’s brother-in-law arrested twice on suspicion of manslaughter?
Why were hairs and fibres from a missing blanket reportedly found in his car trunk?
Why did police publicly release his photo in a way that many called unprecedented?

And why, seven years later, is there still no body, no confession, and no definitive proof of what happened inside that house?

Rebecca Reusch’s disappearance has been described as one of Germany’s most closely watched missing person cases, second only to Madeleine McCann in media intensity.

And it all comes back to one timestamp.

7:46 a.m.

Sources:

https://www.berlin.de/generalstaatsanwaltschaft/presse/pressemitteilungen/2025/pressemitteilung.1608274.php

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/alles-deutet-darauf-hin-dass-sie-das-haus-nicht-lebend-verlassen-hat-4686169.html

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/police-searching-missing-teen-rebecca-36103410

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15210047/Police-hunting-missing-Berlin-schoolgirl-vanished-six-years-ago-15-search-grandparents-home.html 

https://www.stern.de/panorama/verbrechen/themen/rebecca-reusch-8595696.html

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/spuren-des-zweifels-5546110.html?icid=in-text-link_4686169

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