Fiza C. lay in her grave in eastern Pakistan for a good two years, two meters below three stone slabs, before her corpse was lifted out of the earth by gravedigger and transported to Gujrat, where Wolfgang Eisenmenger, long-time director of the forensic medicine institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians- University in Munich, leaning over her, in a section house that looked more like a shed.
Eisenmenger had flown in from Munich the day before, accompanied by a firearms expert from the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office, a forensic person from the Munich police headquarters, two police officers and a public prosecutor from Landshut, as well as an assistant.
The group had set out because Fiza C.'s widower was on trial in Landshut. Ashraf C., born in Pakistan in 1956, naturalized in Germany, welder at BMW, is said to have killed his 35-year-old wife with multiple shots on a foggy evening in January 2003, on a narrow street near Jalalpur Jattan, in his car, a Suzuki Alto. The prosecution was convinced that Ashraf C. wanted to collect two life insurance policies that he had taken out for his wife. In total, it was 178,000 euros. Ashraf C. denied the allegations, alleging that two strangers on a motorcycle shot his wife. There were no witnesses.
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