A 23-year-old beautician allegedly trolled social media platforms for someone who looked like her: She found a TikToker and lured the victim into a German forest to kill her, according to local authorities.
Police in Upper Bavaria say the suspect and her boyfriend then stabbed the look-alike to death and left her corpse in their car in an attempt to fake the suspect’s death and escape from her family.
Authorities announced the murder charge on Monday. The woman and a man, also 23, have been in custody since August 18, 2022. Police have not released their names but described the woman as a “German-Iraqi” and say the man was from Kosovo .
The suspect’s family had initially reported her missing, and police found a body in her car on Aug. 16, with more than 50 stab wounds that rendered her face nearly unrecognizable, according to authorities.
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Left: A framed photo was left at a makeshift memorial in August 2022 near where police found a 23-year-old woman stabbed to death. Right: A selfie of the victim, who has been described as the suspect’s “doppelganger”.
(Peter Kneffel/picture alliance via Getty Images, Khadija2299/TikTok)
Although the victim “looked strikingly similar” to the suspect, the autopsy findings raised “great doubts about the woman’s identity,” according to police.
German police say the victim was “insidiously” killed in an ambush after the two suspects lured her out of the car into a wooded area. Once she died, they placed her body back inside her, according to authorities.
A screengrab from one of Khadija O’s TikTok videos.
(TikTok/Khadija2299)
German media are referring to the case as the “Doppelganger murder” and have identified the parties by their names. News site Bild also shared images showing the suspects with black bands over their eyes.
The suspects are Sharaban K and her boyfriend Sheqir K.
Sharaban reportedly used a handful of fake Instagram accounts to reach at least five women, one of whom became the victim, Khadidja O.
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Khadija was a beauty blogger originally from Algeria and based in Heilbronn.
A TikTok in his name remained viewable on Thursday, where one of his latest videos includes a list of religious sites and the caption “places I want to visit before I go.”
The new details come after a similar story in the US, where police say a New York woman allegedly tried to poison a lookalike friend with tainted cheesecake and steal her identity.
