He placed Anna’s small body in a cardboard box and left it by a canal. Later that day, Grabowski returned to move and bury her, but his fiancée, who had learned of the crime, tipped off the police. He was arrested the same night at a local bar.
Grabowski’s arrest brought little comfort to Marianne. During his trial, he made disturbing claims, including an assertion that Anna had tried to seduce and blackmail him—an outrageous statement that only deepened Marianne’s anguish. Already struggling with the pain of losing her daughter, she now had to endure listening to her child being slandered in court.
