A German-Iraqi woman, 23, has been accused of seeking out a lookalike on social media and murdering in order to fake her own death, prosecutors in Bavaria believe.
Police later said the women looked "strikingly alike", leading the case to be referred to as the "doppelganger murder".
Police officers search a wooded area for clues and objects near which a female body was discovered in a passenger car on Aug. 17, 2022."The victim was killed with over 50 thrusts of the knife, the face completely disfigured."As is customary in the German legal system, the suspect and others involved in the case are referred to by their first names and the last initial.
Veronika Grieser, of the Ingolstadt state prosecutor's office, said on Monday morning: "Investigations have led us to assume that the accused wanted to go into hiding because of a family dispute and fake her own death to that effect."
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