{
  "title": "Hitz case timeline",
  "updated": "2026-07-31",
  "events": [
    {
      "year": "1946",
      "event": "Othmar builds coffee and real estate fortune in Caracas"
    },
    {
      "year": "1947-12-20",
      "event": "Anna Maria Hitz born, Caracas"
    },
    {
      "year": "1954",
      "event": "Will registered in Caracas; later missing from registry per family"
    },
    {
      "year": "1958-07-04",
      "event": "Othmar dies; later empty-grave claim"
    },
    {
      "year": "1961-01",
      "event": "Swiss schoolyard custody episode; Goldspatz nickname era"
    },
    {
      "year": "1965-11-23",
      "event": "Washington Post front page: missing heiress"
    },
    {
      "year": "1965-11-26",
      "event": "Caracas: married, mother; cable 'I am happy now'"
    },
    {
      "year": "1966",
      "event": "Hitz-Spring scandal in Caracas press"
    },
    {
      "year": "2014",
      "event": "Granddaughter begins oral history at NYU"
    },
    {
      "year": "2019-02-04",
      "event": "Anna Maria dies in Miami"
    },
    {
      "year": "2025-2026",
      "event": "Sixtieth anniversary window; public case file online"
    }
  ]
}