Police reopen murder case
A girl is raped and murdered in Cologne – the perpetrator has not been caught to this day, more than 30 years later. This could change soon.
The Cologne police are reopening a sensational case from autumn 1991. This is reported by the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. At that time, a previously unknown person raped and then killed 16-year-old Seckin Caglar in the Poll district.
The new investigations are possible because the police now know the perpetrator’s DNA thanks to new analysis methods – but there is still no pattern in a police database.
That’s why the police are now going through all the potential suspects – several hundred men will soon be asked to take a saliva test. They all lived or wrote near the scene of the crime in October 1991 and were not older than 40 at the time.
Lots of people who have moved or died
The names and addresses of these men are in investigation files from the year of the crime, some of which have already been damaged. That needs to be deciphered now, says Markus Weber from the Homicide Commission. Many of the men have since moved away, others are already dead. The police assume that the perpetrator is between 45 and 70 years old today.
Seckin Caglar had left her place of work on Siegburger Strasse at 6.40 p.m. on October 16, 1991 and had not returned home. Her body was later discovered in a bush near the A4.