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A 31-year-old US citizen accused of brutally attacking two women near southern Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein Castle last year goes on trial on Monday on charges of murder, rape resulting in death and attempted murder. The attack on the two women, also from the United States, took place on June 14 during a hike near the Marienbrücke bridge, a popular spot to view the 19th-century fairy tale palace that sits high upon a hilltop in Bavaria. Prosecutors allege that the man did not know the two women, aged 21 and 22, before meeting them on the hiking trail and luring them to a more remote location…

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