Knife attack in Billigheim-Ingenheim: 60-year-old kills ex-partner
A 60-year-old is said to have killed his former partner in Billigheim-Ingenheim with a kitchen knife. He is in custody pending trial.
Former partner held in custody after fatal knife attack
Following a fatal knife attack on a 53-year-old woman in Billigheim-Ingenheim in the Südliche Weinstraße district, a 60-year-old suspect is in custody pending trial. According to the Landau public prosecutor's office and police, the arrested man is the victim's former partner.
The woman was attacked multiple times with a kitchen knife on Friday evening and fatally wounded. Emergency services attempted unsuccessfully to resuscitate her. The suspect was arrested without resistance by responding police officers. Both were from Billigheim-Ingenheim. No further details are currently available about the precise circumstances and background of the incident. The Landau public prosecutor's office and the Ludwigshafen criminal police have assumed responsibility for the investigation.
Three days after the incident, the Südliche Weinstraße district called for greater attention to the issue of violence against women. The intervention centre against domestic violence Südpfalz recorded a total of 398 women and 20 men as victims of domestic violence in 2025—compared with 379 women and 11 men in 2024 and 421 women and 16 men in 2023. The actual figure is likely considerably higher.
In another case in Ludwigshafen, a man stabbed his wife to death and subsequently called the police himself. He is also in custody pending trial; the couple's children have been placed in the care of the youth welfare office.
At the end of May, a missing woman from Wirft was also found dead in her vehicle. Her separated husband quickly came under suspicion—charges of murder are now being brought against him.
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