A Romanian truck driver confessed at the opening of his trial Wednesday that he killed a woman who was out jogging in a forest in southwestern Germany. The 40-year-old, who went on trial at the state court in Freiburg, is accused of killing and raping the 27-year-old German woman in Endingen last November, senior prosecutor Tomas Orschitt said, the German news agency dpa reported. At the trial, the suspect, whose name wasn't given because of German privacy rules, said he attacked the woman with a bottle and was responsible for her death. He said he killed the woman out of "inexplicable aggression," but that he didn't have a sexual motive, dpa reported. Pleas aren't entered in the German trial system and confessions, which can be taken into consideration to mitigate sentences, are common.

Source: ABC News November 22, 2017 09:22 UTC