German police have arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering a doppelgänger she sought out online in order to fake her own death
The 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman is being held at a prison in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, in connection with the death of a 23-year-old Algerian woman, Ingolstadt police spokesperson Andreas Aichele told CNN on Tuesday. A 23-year-old Kosovan man is also in custody in connection with the murder. The parents of the German-Iraqi suspect reported her missing on August 16 last year. Her car was later found in Ingolstadt with the body of a woman inside.
The German-Iraqi woman was arrested on August 18 after police tracked her to the Kosovan man’s apartment, according to police. “Investigators now assume that the suspect wanted to go into hiding due to family problems and faked her death,” Aichele told CNN. “The suspects came up with the plan to search online for a woman who looked similar to the German-Iraqi, kill her, and place her in such a way that the corpse would be mistaken for the suspect.
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