Career
He verifiably abused and killed twelve-year-old Ulrike Everts and eleven-year-old Christina Nytsch in the area surrounding Cloppenburg in northern Germany. Rieken was the first German criminal to be caught as a result of mass deoxyribonucleic acid screening. In 1998 he was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Justizvollzugsanstalt Celle.
Heinrich Thies: Ronny Rieken.
Porträt eines Kindermörders. Springe: zu Klampen, 2005.
Thomas Hombert: Der freiwillige genetische Massentest. Verfassungsrechtliche Zulässigkeit und Grenzen unter Darstellung des Falls Christina Nytsch.
Göttingen, University, Diss., 2003.
Göttingen: Cuvillier, 2003.
