Crimes in Ingolstadt: the alleged dead are now in custody

After a violent crime in Ingolstadt, a woman who was initially believed to be dead is in custody. An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday against the 23-year-old and an alleged accomplice of the same age, a police spokesman said on Friday. The two are suspected of killing a 23-year-old woman who deceptively resembles the alleged attacker. Once the victim was found in the alleged attacker’s car, it was initially assumed that the dead person was the suspect. Police could not initially say whether the woman wanted to fake her death — she was being investigated in all directions, she said.

The suspects’ parents were looking for their daughter in Ingolstadt on Tuesday night when they finally discovered the young woman’s car. As the similar-looking victim was inside, it was dark and the car was locked, the parents assumed her daughter was dead, sources said. Only the alarmed policemen broke the vehicle’s window. Due to the circumstances, they also initially assumed that she was the daughter. The alerted emergency doctor was only able to determine the woman’s death.

The autopsy and other investigations raised serious doubts about the woman’s identity on Wednesday, police said. The German-Iraqi woman believed to have died was arrested in Ingolstadt on Wednesday night. Shortly thereafter, a 23-year-old Kosovar was also arrested by a special police unit in his apartment. The murdered woman is from another federal state. She is not related to the alleged perpetrators.