British military: No new clues in case of missing toddler

BERLIN – 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 Tuesday 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 Nov. 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.”