Lucie Trezzini's funeral mass will take place 16 March in Fribourg

Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Swiss media continue to turn over the murder case of a 16-year-old from Fribourg, beaten and murdered in Argovie 4 March, in an effort to understand why her presumed murderer, a repeat offender, was not considered a high-risk case.

Police in Aargau, where the young woman died, held a press conference 12 March and said the circumstances are now clear and the man, who has confessed to the crime, says he did it because he wanted to return to prison.

Daniel H, as the police refer to him, age 25, met Lucie by chance at the Zurich train station Friday morning and suggested that she model for jewelry photos. She accepted and accompanied him to his apartment, he told police. He was already taking analgesics and while they talked, in the apartment, he began to drink. He was depressed because he had lost his job and his recently acquired girlfriend had left him plus he continued to have problems with drugs and alcohol. At this point he decided to kill Lucie in order to return to prison, saying he would “prefer prison to vegetating in freedom.”

He hit her over the head with a heavy object and when he realized she wasn’t dead, he stabbed her several times.

There appears to have been no sexual assault, confirmed by an autopsy, which also showed that Lucie did not consume any drugs or alcohol.

Daniel H. also told police he had in the past made advances to other young women but there was no violence, apparently giving credibility to a story in a German-language magazine, Blick, about a taxi driver who recounts the saga of two 15-year-old girls locked by the suspect in the same apartment, in January.

Police, in commenting on the Blick article earlier said the taxi driver should have come forward at the time with his story of a client buying drugs and two under-age girls who were upset leaving the apartment early in the morning. The man appears to have loaned his camera to Daniel H. The photos, with the girls masked, appear in Blick.

Le Temps takes a close look at the legal system and the suspect’s path through it. The head of the prison without walls for young delinquents, where he spent four years, says he would never have thought the man capable of a crime like Lucie’s murder.

Related: TSR, 24 Heures, Aargau police site (all in French)

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