Murder of Peggy Knobloch

Peggy Knobloch
Born6 April 1992
Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany
Disappeared7 May 2001
Lichtenberg, Bavaria, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forMurder victim

Peggy Knobloch (6 April 1992 – 7 May 2001) was a nine-year-old girl from Lichtenberg, Bavaria, who was kidnapped and murdered on 7 May 2001. Her body was located 15 years later in a wooded area near Wurzbach. In 2020, investigators shelved the investigation of her murder without solving it. Some newspapers refer to her as the "German Madeleine McCann".