Woman Accused Of Killing Lookalike, Disfiguring Face To Fake Her Own Death

Police have reportedly solved a mystery straight from Agatha Christie novels, including a lookalike on Instagram and a missing woman.

According to reports, a young German-Iraqi woman had problems with her family. She is believed to have found a lookalike on Instagram and set up a meeting with her. Then, she murdered her in the hope her family would recognize the body and allow her to escape to a new life.

“The crime weapon has not been found, but the evidence is overwhelming,” Andreas Aichele is the spokesperson for police Telled Bild. “The victim was killed with over 50 thrusts of the knife, the face completely disfigured.”

“I can confirm that the accused 23-year-old female obviously planned to start a new life due to family problems,” Aichele said of what has been called the “doppelganger murder.”

“Investigations revealed contact to several young ladies during a period of few weeks,” Aichele told NBC News. “Investigators assume that under a pretext she managed to organize a meeting with the later victim. Together with the 23-year-old male she traveled to the Heilbronn region to pick her up and carry out the planned murder.”

The body of Khadidja O, 23, an Algerian beauty blogger, was found last August in a parked Mercedes; she was identified as Sharaban K. by Sharaban K’s family. However, an autopsy the next day revealed that her identity wasn’t certain.

On August 19, Sharaban K., her partner in crime Sheqir K (23), were taken into police custody. The couple allegedly picked up the victim from her apartment, then parked in the woods, lured the victim to exit the car, then stabbed Sharaban K. to death before placing the body back in the car and leaving the car near the Danube, where it was discovered by Sharaban K’s parents.

“You don’t get a case like this every day, especially with such a spectacular twist,” Aichele stated. “On the day we found the body there was nothing to prepare us for this development.”

Professor Fiona Brookman is a professor of criminalology at the University of South Wales. “committing a murder in order to fake one’s own death — I have never come across a homicide of this kind before.”

The case of someone disfiguring a victim so the body can be identified as their own and permit them to escape to a new life was a key part of Agatha Christie’s classic “Murder on the Links,” The second book is dedicated to Hercule Poirot (her most famous creation), who was also the subject of 33 novels.

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