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British military: No new clues in case of missing toddler

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Last Updated : May 29 2018 | 5:00 PM IST

The British military says it's wrapping up a renewed investigation into the decades-old cold case of the disappearance in Germany of a soldier's 2-year-old daughter after finding no new evidence.

The British military said today the Royal Military Police's search of the Alme river banks, in the western city of Paderborn, turned up no new leads on what happened to Katrice Lee.

Excavation of the river bank started in early May and was scheduled to take five weeks, but the military said investigators were able to conclude work faster than planned.

Lee vanished on her second birthday on November 28, 1981, on the outskirts of Paderborn, near the British military base where her father was stationed.

A review of the evidence had concluded the riverbank was "significant and of interest.

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First Published: May 29 2018 | 5:00 PM IST

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