Is there finally a lead to the murderer? After the broadcast “Aktenzeichen XY”, the police have new investigative approaches in the 24-year-old case. Cindy Koch was last seen in her car with a stranger.
Oberhausen – Almost 24 years after the murder of 20-year-old Cindy Koch in Oberhausen, the police are pursuing new investigative approaches. The reason was the treatment of the case in the ZDF television program “Aktenzeichen XY … unsolved”.
“There have been reports – both by phone and email,” said a spokeswoman for the Essen police on Friday. “We will carefully check and evaluate these.” She did not provide any further details for tactical reasons.
According to earlier information from the police, the prospective kindergarten teacher and mother of an 18-month-old boy was found dead in her bed on the evening of 10 August 1997, a Sunday. Before that, she had visited several discos in Oberhausen with a friend on Sunday night. After dropping her friend off on Sunday morning, she went to a disco again.
Unidentified man in young woman’s car
At around 7:10 a.m., the young woman was last seen sitting in the passenger seat of her car. The small car was driven by an unknown man and parked in front of their home. The two of them went to the woman’s apartment together. What happened next is unclear.
Murder does not expire. This is why the State Criminal Police Office in North Rhine-Westphalia has included a large number of unsolved murder cases in a “cold cases” database. They are now processed systematically. dpa
