Sheet The Guardian On January 30, the case occurred in the city of Ingolstadt, Bavaria state, southern Germany, in August last year. The suspect has been identified as Sharaban K, a 23-year-old esthetician of Iraqi German descent.
Wanting to run away because of family conflicts, Sharaban K murdered a person who looked exactly like her to fake her own death.
Sheet The Guardian reported that the victim’s bloody body was found in a parked car in Ingolstadt on August 16, 2022. At that time, the identity of the victim was identified as Sharaban K (23 years old), a beauty expert, living in Munich and of Iraqi descent.
Sharaban K (left) and Khadidja O. Photo: De.knews
Several members of Sharaban K’s family identified the body. However, the autopsy report later cast doubt on the identity of the victim. The body was eventually identified as Khadidja O, an Algerian beauty blogger.
She is also 23 years old, living in the city of Heilbronn, in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg next to the state of Bavaria.
According to police, the two women look very similar because they both have long straight black hair, the same skin color, and heavy makeup. The German press called it a “replica murder”.
On August 19, 2022, Sharaban K was taken into custody with a 23-year-old Kosovo man named Sheqir K (23 years old). It was not until earlier this week that the motives of these two murders were revealed.
Accordingly, on the morning of January 30, prosecutor Veronika Grieser said: “The investigation led us to the conclusion that the defendant wanted to hide because of family conflicts and faked his death to achieve that purpose.”
German police search the forest near where Khadidja O’s body was found. Photo: Polish News
Police said Sharaban K was in contact with many women who looked like him a week before the murder. Sharaban K uses many fake names to operate on social networking sites.
German newspaper Southgerman newspaper reported that victim Khadidja O was intrigued by a cosmetic gift and agreed to meet. Then, Sheqir K and Sharaban K drove to the house to pick up the victim and then drove to a forest between Heilbronn and Ingolstadt, lured the girl out of the car and stabbed her to death.
Police spokesman Andreas Aichele told the newspaper Bild: “We have not found the murder weapon, but we have found a lot of evidence.” The victim was stabbed more than 50 times and his face was disfigured.
The two perpetrators then put the victim’s body in the back seat of the car and drove it to Ingolstadt, where it was parked in a residential area on the banks of the Danube.
Sharaban’s parents discovered the body late on August 16, 2022.
A spokesman for the Ingolstadt state prosecutor’s office said the investigation was ongoing and multiple witnesses were being interviewed.
Official arrest warrants for Sheqir and Sharaban were issued on January 26 and 27. The two are facing life in prison if convicted.
According to police spokesman Andreas Aichele, “this is a very special case. On the day the body was found, we did not expect the case to turn out this way.”