Posted on February 9, 2016

Suspect in Vienna Death of Lauren Mann Is Arrested at Swiss Refugee Center

Andy Eckardt, NBC News, February 8, 2016

A suspect in the death of American nanny Lauren Mann has been arrested at a Swiss refugee center, officials told NBC News on Monday.

Mann, a 25-year-old originally from Colorado, was found half naked in apartment in the Austrian city of Vienna last month. An autopsy showed she died from suffocation and officials said a “considerable” amount of blood was found at the scene.

A spokesperson for the Swiss Federal Ministry of Justice told NBC News that a man from the Gambia was arrested Thursday at a refugee center in the town of Kreuzlingen, around 20 miles from the Austrian border.

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Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper said the suspect’s DNA was found at the crime scene and that Austrian Federal Police tracked him down by locating his mobile phone in Switzerland.

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Lauren Mann

Lauren Mann