Manfred Genditzki stands in a courtroom in Munich, Germany, July 7, 2023 for the pronouncement of the verdict in the retrial of the so-called bathtub murder case. Manfred Genditzki, who spent 13 years in prison in Germany for the murder of an elderly woman, was acquitted at a retrial on Friday by a court that determined that the supposed victim had died in an accident.
Genditzki, who worked as a caretaker at the complex where the woman lived, always insisted that he was innocent and appealed unsuccessfully against the original verdict. He fought for years to get a retrial, which he secured last August. The judge said it had been a rocky road to justice for Genditzki and that he had pursued it with admirable patience. Genditzki followed the verdict calmly.
Judges found that the woman likely fell into the bathtub as she tried to wash laundry or take a foot bath, was unable to free herself -- possibly because she was unconscious — and drowned.
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