MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian coroner on Thursday recommended that police further investigate the death of German backpacker Simone Strobel, whose body was found hidden in a park 20 years ago.

Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan concluded a second inquest into the death of the 25-year-old kindergarten teacher from Rieden, Bavaria, whose naked body was found under palm fronds in Lismore in New South Wales state on Feb. 17, 2005.

Her body was found 100 meters (109 yards) from the trailer where she had been staying with her German boyfriend Tobias Suckfuell, his sister Katrin Suckfuell and friend Jens Martin. Her body was found six days after she was reported missing.

Strobel’s boyfriend, who now goes by the name Tobias Moran, was charged with her murder and with perverting the course of just

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