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On the evening of 22 July 1984, Scholz shot his 49-year-old wife Helga,<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> whom he had married in 1955, in their Berlin villa. He was arrested the following day. Helga was buried two weeks later in the presence of approximately 1,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|last=Nestler|first=Stefan|title=23.7.1984: Bubi Scholz verhaftet|trans-title=23 July 1984: Bubi Scholz Arrested|language=German|url=http://www.kalenderblatt.de/index.php?what=thmanu&manu_id=591&tag=23&monat=7&weekd=&weekdnum=&year=2012&dayisset=1&lang=de|work=Kalenderblatt|accessdate=2 May 2014}}</ref> Scholz claimed the shooting was an accident and that the "shot had been loosened during the cleaning of the gun".<ref name=von/> On 1 February 1985, the court sentenced him to custodial arrest for three years on the charge of manslaughter and violation of the Arms Act of Germany.<ref name=tagesspiegel/> The case was the subject of an episode of the documentary series "The Major Criminal Cases" in 2012. Scholz was released in August 1987.<ref name=von/>
In October 1993, Scholz married Sabine Arndt.<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> During 1997-98, he suffered several strokes, and developed [[dementia]].<ref name=tagesspiegel/> He tried to commit suicide twice. He had also been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.<ref name=von/> He died of [[cardiac arrest]] on 21 August 2000<ref name=tagesspiegel/> at a nursing home in Hoppegarten.<ref name=archive/><ref name=von/> He was buried in the Woodland Cemetery in [[Zehlendorf (Berlin)|Zehlendorf]], Berlin. His widow Sabine married actor Klaus Jürgen Wussow in 2004. In August 2008, at the request of Sabine, Scholz's body was reburied at the Berlin
==''The Bubi Scholz Story''==
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