German police will launch a new investigation into unresolved child murders since the 1990s after the startling discovery of the DNA of a neo-Nazi gang member in the burial site of a missing girl. The Nationalist Socialist Underground (NSU) is accused of killing eight Turks and a Greek national in racially motivated killings and the DNA of Uwe Boehnhardt, a now deceased member of the NSU, was found earlier this week in a wooded area where the body of Peggy Knobloch, 9, was found last July, 15 years after her disappearance. The police investigation is expected to focus on unsolved cases of child murders in areas where neo-Nazi groups, linked with NSU, have been active, while lawyers for NSU victims also called upon the investigators to focus on unresolved migrant murders.

Boehnhardt, Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschaepe of the alleged Neo-Nazi terrorist cell are thought to have committed a series of racially inspired murders, bank robberies and bombings.

Mundlos and Boehnhardt were found dead in the smoking ruins of a camper van in the eastern German city of Eisenach in November 2011. Zschaepe is on trial in connection with the alleged NSU killing spree.