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In August, police officers search the wooded area where the dead woman was found: the accused probably wanted to fake her own death
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More than five months after the violent death of a young woman in Ingolstadt, investigators assume that the 23-year-old woman was murdered by a double and an accomplice.
"After the investigation, it can be assumed that the accused went into hiding due to family disputes and wanted to fake her own death for this purpose," said the Ingolstadt public prosecutor on Monday.
The dead man from the Heilbronn district was found in the suspect's car last August.
According to the investigators, both women look confusingly similar.
The accused was also 23 years old at the time of the crime.
Even the family of the suspects initially mistakenly identified the dead woman as their own daughter.
The autopsy then raised doubts about the identity.
The woman initially thought to be dead and an acquaintance of the same age were arrested.
The two suspects had previously been in custody for manslaughter.
After hearing witnesses and evaluating the traces and data secured, it can now be assumed that the suspected woman and her alleged accomplice acted out of base motives and acted insidiously.
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