Kidnapping of Ursula Herrmann

The kidnapping of Ursula Herrmann was a notorious child kidnapping which occurred in Germany on 15 September 1981 in which a 10-year-old girl disappeared while riding a bicycle to her home. The child was subsequently found dead in a rectangular wooden box buried in woodland.

The circumstances surrounding Herrmann's kidnapping, confinement and death led to her being known as the Girl in the Box. Provided by Wikipedia