German woman accused of killing doppelganger to fake own death - The Washington Post

And their girl was suspected of murdering her — perchance to fake her ain death, constabulary and prosecutors say.

The lawsuit of the German Iraqi pistillate surviving successful the confederate metropolis of Ingolstadt, named arsenic Shahraban K. by German paper Bild, has shocked galore successful Germany. Her parents had traveled from Munich to Ingolstadt to find her aft she stopped answering their calls — and recovered her car and the assemblage connected Aug. 16.

Police began investigating and issued an archetypal statement astir a homicide, saying it appeared the pistillate had been the “victim of a convulsive crime.” But doubts rapidly emerged astir her individuality arsenic DNA and fingerprint grounds from the unfortunate did not lucifer that of the missing woman, and arsenic constabulary heard “rumors” that the missing pistillate had been seen driving astir the section area, constabulary spokesperson Andreas Aichele said successful an interview.

A time later, constabulary determined “completely caller circumstances” successful the people of their probe and arrested the missing 23-year-old, alongside a 23-year-old Kosovan man, connected suspicion of homicide, police said successful a statement.

The unfortunate has been named successful German media arsenic Algerian Khadija O, besides 23, whom investigators accidental looked “strikingly similar” to the missing woman.

At the time, authorities did not springiness a motive for the killing.

Now they judge that the suspects came up with a program to find idiosyncratic who could walk for the young woman, “who wanted to spell into hiding due to the fact that of a household dispute” and truthful decided to fake her ain death, according to a connection released by the authoritative Monday.

Police accidental they believe that the suspect “chatted with respective young women” who looked akin to her online and attempted to lure them into a gathering done mendacious promises.

On Aug. 16, the 2 suspects traveled to the Heilbronn area, successful the neighboring authorities of Baden-Württemberg, to prime up the unfortunate from her home, constabulary said. They past took her to a wooded country and stabbed her aggregate times earlier driving backmost to Ingolstadt, wherever they near the assemblage successful the backmost of the vehicle.

While the 2 suspects, present 24, person been successful custody since August connected suspicion of homicide, a territory tribunal issued apprehension warrants precocious past week for them successful narration to the much superior transgression of murder, which carries a beingness sentence.

The probe is ongoing.