Ingolstadt DE: Did the 23-year-old murder her doppelganger with 40 stitches?

publishedAug 18, 2022, 4:50 p.m

Mysterious crime in Bavaria: A woman who was initially believed to be the victim of a bloody crime has reappeared safely – and is now in custody. The corpse looked strikingly similar to Scharahbahn K.

The case of a woman found dead in a car in Ingolstadt has taken a surprising turn. The 23-year-old, initially identified as a victim of violence, was found alive and arrested, according to the police in Ingolstadt on Thursday.

On Tuesday evening, the body of a 23-year-old was discovered in a parked car in Ingolstadt. Her parents were according to the «Bild» newspaper drove from Munich to Ingolstadt, around 80 kilometers away, because she did not return from a meeting with her husband, who was separated from her there. They found Schrarahbahn at 11:30 p.m. covered in blood on the back seat of their Mercedes. Local residents who heard the family’s screams then notified the police. An emergency doctor could only determine the death of the woman. The body had more than 40 knife wounds.

According to the information, the autopsy and forensic comparisons raised “massive doubts” about the identity of the woman. At the same time, several references were received from witnesses who confirmed these investigation results. Eventually it became clear that the body was not Scharahbahn. According to the police, the dead person found in the car was also a 23-year-old woman, who, however, came from another federal state and “looked strikingly similar” to the arrested person. Not even the parents would have noticed that the body was not Scharahbahn K.

On Wednesday evening, the officials finally arrested a woman living in Ingolstadt, who was the 23-year-old who was initially thought to be dead. During the night, a 23-year-old Croatian was arrested in his apartment with the help of special units. There are sufficient suspicions that he was involved in the homicide. The “image” suspects that the circumstances of the murder were fictitious to make people believe that the dead was Scharahbahn K.

According to the information, the investigations are concentrating on clarifying the motive and reconstructing the course of the crime on possible relationships between those involved in the crime and with the dead. According to the report, the public prosecutor’s office in Ingolstadt has requested arrest warrants against the two suspects on suspicion of a homicide. They are to be presented to the magistrate on Thursday.