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<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ab0aaa97e86eda15865124fd09e9c171" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>Retired serviceman to be extradited from Nebraska to Germany for a 46-year-old cold case killing of teenage girl after DNA put him at the scene </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-59b8ce717366488568528981ae29bd7b" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>US <strong>Army vet,</strong> Tommy Molina, 70, accused of murdering Cornelia Hümpfer, 18, on April 20, 1978, in Schweinfurt, Germany, whil<strong>e he was stationed there </strong> </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-790344e6d7a4ed8032f27583cfb17b4b" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>They were having an affair and she got pregnant and was going to tell his wife </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ac7ce6098f5f663cf0cbbc490fa80cc4" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>He allegedly confessed to third wife Cindy Newstead, in 1995 and she reported to police </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6fb479606b9f7df64d595e1aaf7ee63e" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>The night he killed <strong>Hümpfe</strong>r, the pair had sex in the suspects car </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b243851aa008c1500afbe7435e8c2bd" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>Autopsy found fresh semen in the victim&#8217;s body and recent developments in DNA technology linked Molina to the murder </strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36d90123f571e033737aaa37aed7ea5e" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong>Following the granting of an application for extradition by a court in Nebraska, <strong>Molina will be extradited to Germany in the next few weeks</strong></strong></h1>



<h1 class="wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3777f5c709104557d3e17be17271828" style="color:#2d2020;font-size:14px"><strong><strong><strong> Molina faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted</strong></strong></strong></h1>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Army vet Tommy Molina, [photo], 70, has been accused of killing his lover Cornelia Hümpfer, 18, in Schweinfurt, Germany on April 21, 1978. He was arrested at his home in Gering, Nebraska on June 21, 2023. An American court this week agreed to extradite him</strong></p>



<p>A superior court in Nebraska has granted an extradition order for a US Army veteran to Germany to stand trial for the murder his teenage mistress to death 46 years ago. <br>Tommy Molina, 70, was arrested at his home in Gering, Nebraska, on June 21 and the court this week agreed to extradite the septuagenarian to stand trial for the stabbing of his lover Cornelia Hümpfer, 18, who was found dead by the side of a road about 5am on April 21, 1978, hours after she was stabbed 14 times in the neck and chest area with a 12 cm bayonet.<br>Molina was stationed with the US Army in Schweinfurt, a town in Bavaria between Frankfurt and Nuremburg, with his wife Linda and their son.<br>Serviceman Molina and Hümpfer had been carrying on an affair for some time and she told him she was pregnant and would need to tell his wife.<br>Molina was fingered as a suspect at the time. In the past 46 years he has been questioned several times by US and German authorities. A case for the possible link to a homicide could not be made until advances in DNA technology established the presence of the suspect at the crime scene.<br>The first break in the case came in 1995, when he allegedly drunkenly confessed the murder to his third wife Cindy. She reported the confession to police.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Molina&#8217;s teen lover, Cornelia Hümpfer, [photo], 18, was found dead with 14 stab wounds by the side of a road in Schweinfurt, Germany, about 5am on April 21, 1978. She met Molina about 6pm the previous evening. They had sex in his car before the killing &#8211; fresh semen was found inside her body during the autopsy</strong></p>



<p>On the day, April 20, 1978, Hümpfer told friends she was going to Schweinfurt for a rehearsal with her church music group Band of Jericho, but was actually meeting Molina. The pair met him about 6pm and they had sex in his Fiat 124, before the murder. Autopsy found fresh semen inside her body.<br>According to the complaint from German authorities in requesting extradition, Hümpfer then told her lover that she was pregnant with his child and would tell his wife.<br>Molina started driving during the conversation, until Hümpfer told him she wanted to get out and he stopped next to a field.<br>&#8216;When the victim started leaving the car between 9.30pm and 11pm, the accused stabbed the victim, of whom he had grown tired, 14 times,&#8217; the documents alleged.<br>Forensic reports state that Hümpfer&#8217;s wounds were mainly from the left side from the left shoulder blade to the body center and allegedly made &#8216;with a bayonet knife at least 12cm long he carried in order to kill her, thus preventing her [from telling his wife]&#8217;.<br>&#8216;In doing so, he repeatedly hit the heart of the victim who soon bled to death, in accordance with his intention.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Cornelia Hümpfer [photo], had been carrying on an affair with married US serviceman <strong>Molina </strong>for some time. On the day she was killed, she&#8217;d told him she was pregnant and would need to tell his wife</strong></p>



<p>Hümpfer didn&#8217;t know he allegedly wanted to kill her as they were lovers &#8216;therefore she had no chance to fend off the attack or even escape in time&#8217;.<br>Prosecutors alleged Molina tried to move her body, but when that was too difficult he simply left her by the roadside and fled. <br>Molina quickly became the prime suspect when German authorities discovered he was having an affair with the victim. <br>A witness saw Molina&#8217;s car, with the distinctive green number plate used by US servicemen, near the crime scene around the time of the murder.<br>Furthermore, marks on Hümpfer&#8217;s skirt and the sole of her shoes also matched the foot mats in his car, freshly cleaned when police conducted a search four days later.<br>Molina said he was at home with his wife, but she told police she couldn&#8217;t remember, but a case could not be made even as Molina moved back to the US and retired from the army.<br>Ultimately Molina and Linda divorced and he then married his third wife Cindy Newstead in 1990. <br>Allegedly, in 1995, he confessed the crime to Newstead, when they lived in Fort Riley, Kansas. &#8216;Molina had been drinking, and the woman told him that she was pregnant and was going to tell his wife,&#8217; court documents alleged.<br>&#8216;Molina told Newstead that, after hearing this information, he stabbed the woman. <br>&#8216;Upon returning home covered in blood, Molina told his then-wife, Linda, what he had done, and Linda disposed of the knife. <br>&#8216;Molina further described to Newstead that he was questioned by German authorities about the incident and asserted that he had &#8216;beat&#8217; two lie detector tests.&#8217;</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Back in 2020 the FBI executed a warrant to collect a blood sample for DNA comparison from then 66-year-old Molina [photo], for a crime he was suspected of committing overseas as a serviceman four decades prior</strong></p>



<p>Newstead was skeptical, according to court documents, and Molina told her to contact Linda to confirm the story. <br>&#8216;When Newstead did, Molina instructed Linda to tell Newstead,&#8217; court documents alleged.<br>&#8216;Although it appears that Linda did not expressly confirm the details of the story, Newstead concluded that the interaction confirmed the truth of what Molina had told her.&#8217;<br>Newstead told US Army criminal investigators, who interviewed Molina again, but he denied both murdering Hümpfer, and confessing to his wife. According to the court documents, &#8216;Molina did admit that he had extramarital affairs when he was in Germany and that he sometimes concocted stories to impress people, especially women&#8217;.<br>Molina allegedly also told a colleague that he &#8216;did bad things in Germany&#8217; but didn&#8217;t say what they were or anything about the murder. <br>Like previous attempts the case went cold, until 2020 when DNA technology was advanced enough that his profile matched with samples from the crime scene.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Molina [photo, circa 2017], will be flown to Germany in next few weeks, where he faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted</strong></p>



<p>German investigators needed a new sample from Molina and the FBI got a search warrant to take blood from Molina in October 2020. This singular development was the impetus for German prosecutors to file an arrest warrant on February 19, 2021.<br>After Newstead and Molina divorced in 1996, he got back with Linda who was there supporting him at the extradition hearings.<br>Despite defense lawyers arguing that the prosecution&#8217;s case was too flimsy to warrant extradition at a series of hearing since his arrest last year, the US District Court agreed to the extradition<br>Molina will be extradited to Germany in next few weeks. He faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted. </p>

US Army vet, Tommy Molina, 70, to be extradited to Germany for 1978, cold case murder of his teen he allegedly got pregnant, while he was stationed there
