But, there must be one of these connections that writes life or, as in the present cases, death.
Parallels can be found with the cases of the Isdal womanand the dead, eight years later (1995), at thePlaza Hotel in Oslo.
It was not unusual that a body was found on September 22, 1987, along the railway line near Oslo, between Kambo and Moss. According to forensic examinations, the dead man had been run over by a train.
The clothing of the dead man was presumably from Germany. First, there were the obligatory thrombosis stockings, two socks for medical support with three blue stripes on top and an open toe at the toes.
Hertie, KaDeWe, fine-rib undershirt (Elan Body), the typical Schimanski jacket of the days 1987, when the Duisburg bully investigator was the rating king of the ARD.
At first, it seemed mysterious why the labels had also been cut out of his clothes. It was like the two deaths mentioned above. A packet of cigarettes from the former Eastern Bloc, an almost empty box of Camel, which was produced in the West for the East, was found with the body, as well as a Swiss army knife, a red Victorinox Swiss Army pocket knife of the model "Climber".
In this context, the cigarettes could have come from the stocks of the former GDR Intershop. Mephisto shoes from the traditional company from Sarrebourg in France, which pointed to quality and a genuine connection to the Federal Republic. On the label of the Elan undershirt, there was a "German" written 1. an trace of the Second-Hand shops was gradually discarded because all the clothes came from the former Federal Republic of Germany.
In the course of the investigations, espionage again played a role with the finger of suspicion to the former Eastern Bloc. Along the railway line, there was a tunnel that led to a NATO facility on Gylder Hill in Våler in the 1980s. A radar station located there was part of the so-called Nike system. It was a missile defence system that was supposed to protect Oslo from a missile attack from the former Soviet Union.
But also a ship of a shipping company from Rendsburg came into the focus of the investigations. Bizarre became the case when the captain couldn't remember the passenger who allegedly had sailed on his cargo ship. At that time, it was common for passengers to be transported on cargo ships.
The case was filed away in Norway in 1990 because no papers were found on the dead man. Once again, however, the mysterious murder, initially classified as suicide, leads to the GDR after a trail to Switzerland, where a mix-up occurred, and the so-called "truck trail" was eliminated. A witness, truck driver Roy Sandberg, had reported after years that the tarp of his truck was cut when the events took place.
< healthy>Who knows this man, who is about 50-60 years old, or can provide relevant information about the case described? Relevant information also, especially from the environment of the former Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH, which was subordinated to the KoKo. This also includes freight forwarders and drivers of the former VEB Deutrans, who may have taken the contraband goods to Scandinavia. Has an employee from this environment disappeared during the period in question? Also in connection with Jauerfood, a cover company of GENEX and GDR foreign trade in Copenhagen?
Did the dead man come from Berlin?
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Does the track of the "Heulmeisje" lead to Essen in Germany after all?
Was the "Heulmeisje " kidnapped?
Where was she seen?
Can anyone make a connection with the food?
Has anyone seen the "Heulmeisje " before 1975 in the Eastern Bloc?
A witness who had a connection to the young woman is said to have revealed himself to a taxi driver.
Who can provide information on this?
Can anyone provide information about the young woman?
Traces of a terrible crime
What happened on October 24, 1976?
In Beijing Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as head of the CCP. Members of the gang of four around Mao's widow were expelled from the party.
The British James Hunt won the Formula 1 race at the Japanese Grand Prix ahead of the Austrian Niki Lauda.
At the same time, a forester finds the corpse of a girl by chance, who should go down in German criminal history as the Heulmeisje.
It must have lain in the parking lot at the following location for months before it was found.
The name "Heulmeisje" was given to it because this was the name for the parking lot at the Dutch A 12, Deheul, at that time.
Overall, very little is known about the girl found on October 24, 1976, in the small adjacent woodland of the former Deheul car park on the A12 near Maarsbergen in the Netherlands.
She was between 13 and 18 years old at the time of her death.
It is frightening that until today the identity is unknown and therefore apparently nobody misses or even knows the quite pretty, about 1.60 tall girl.
It seems strange that after more than 43 years of intensive investigation and reconstruction of the face by forensic experts, no clues were received that could at least lead to the clarification of the person's identity.
One of the many tracks from the year 2013 led to the Ruhr area, where it silted up again. The skeleton was unearthed in 2007. Afterwards, the skull was excellently restored, as can be seen on the reconstruction photo of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden.
Maarsbergen- A12 -German-Dutch border
The finding of the corpse by a forester under a layer of leaves was as in many cases. The girl lay strangled on the scene.
During this period, numerous prostitutes and their clients met on this Deheul car park.
For years it was assumed that the so-called "Heulmeisje" was a previously disappeared girl from the area where the body was found. This is also how the body was found and buried.
The body was buried as the missing "Monique Jacobs".
Monique Jacobs reappeared out of nowhere after 36 years. There had been problems in the family which forced Monique Jacobs to find her centre of life in the USA.
After that, good advice was costly.
Several broadcasts of the German criminal file XY and the Dutch Opsporing Verzocht from 2013-16 brought hardly any clues and unfortunately no clue at all as to the identity of the person.
But who was the so-called "Heulmeisje"?
For 43 years now, the Dutch and German police have been investigating the mysterious murder case.
Investigators did not find many traces in the vicinity of the later site.
In 1976 the "Heulmeisje" was on the road with age-typical, for that time simple clothes.
It is and was not at all so unusual that corpses that were found after years or months cannot necessarily be assigned to any other body.
Usually, it is a piece of the criminalistic puzzle over the years, or as in this case over decades, that needs to be put together. However, much of this case seems so unsolved that the investigators thought they were back to square one.
In this case, the skull was reconstructed and photographed. That's how Heulmeisje could have looked like.
Numerous rumours said that the girl came from a guest worker family, perhaps from Greece, former Yugoslavia or Poland.
Even with forensic geology and the restoration of the face, plenty of nowhere leading work was done in the years following the discovery of the young woman. It was found that after examining an epiphyseal joint, the unknown deceased was born between 1960 and 1964.
In later years, an isotope examination was carried out on the hair and teeth, and it was found that the victim spent several years in the Ruhr and Eifel regions. Around the year 1975, it probably stayed in the German Democratic Republic or in a neighbouring country of the former Eastern Bloc. Shortly before death, the victim will have lived in the Federal Republic of Germany or the Netherlands again. During this time, she was very poorly fed, which indicates anorexia or simply poverty.
Here in the Dutch language a reconstruction of the possible events:
According to information from the Dutch police, who never closed the case, the body was, according to an informant 36 years after the crime, dumped or thrown away in the parking lot by two men aged between 30 and 40 years at the time. Many people who knew whoever they were, were aware of this fact. Whether the escalation occurred or whether the body was only temporarily stored was never determined.
A taxi driver reported that he was talking to a drunk passenger. The latter, in turn, stated that the girl had come from Essen and explained that the young woman spoke German. The only secured track that led into the Rhine-Ruhr area, to Essen.
In the course of our research for this article, further questions arose:
Can anyone give details of the dead who are said to have been in the former GDR or neighbouring Eastern European countries at that time, in 1975?
Is it possible that the death of the young woman was connected to kidnapping by (Eastern European) pimps?
It is asked whether the so-called "Heulmeisje" lived and grew up in the Eifel, the area bordering on the Netherlands, during the first years of her life, whether anyone can remember her school days around 1970 and perhaps provide relevant information about the person depicted?
How did the girl get into the parking lot, which is now closed?
Who knows the girl with long eyelashes and dark brown hair from a holiday?
What's the story about the two men who are said to have simply disposed the body in the former parking lot at the A12 motorway? In this context, the term "simply thrown away" was often used.
Does anyone know the "Heulmeisje" from a day nursery in the former GDR?
Did the family of the "Heulmeisje" perhaps belong to a circus or artist troupe, travelling people?
If anyone can provide relevant information, please contact the following police station or directly the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden, Germany,
Keyword Heulmeisje
The main questions of the police in this cold case revolve around two pivotal points:
Who can give clues as to the girl's identity?
Who can give details of the two men, 30 and 40 years old at the time, who are said to have thrown away the girl's body in 1976?
The police in Utrecht in the Netherlands on 0031-79 - 345 98 76 or any other police station or the Crime Investigation Department of the Federal Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden on 0049-61155 -13 101 is responsible for this.
Besides, any other police service who will receive observations or information from the time will forward them to the investigating service in the matter.
In April 2011, the skeleton of a woman was found during construction work in a septic tank/cesspit on the site of the former collection point for secondary raw materials (SERO). The case is still cold, it was not possible to clarify the facts. Or even to determine the identity of the dead.
The skeleton was in poor condition but was still wholly preserved, according to Maik Zimmermann, the Commissioner in charge of the Homicide Department in Frankfurt an der Oder. Unfortunately, comparisons with the DNA of the long-term missing persons from this period between 1965 and 1975 (Still former GDR) were not successful.
The dead woman was about 20 years old at the time of her death. She was 1.60 meters tall and had dark hair. Her shoe size was 38/39. Her face was reconstructed from the skull that was found. A possible cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, as determined by forensic medicine.
Fibres found at the site indicated knitwear of the "Malimo" brand, which was not produced until the mid-1960s in the former GDR. The shoes and stockings were also made of a material that was not used in the GDR until the mid-1960s.
The shaft in which the body was found was apart of a toilet facility. This installation had been installed in the Uferstraße in Fürstenwalde during GDR times. The perpetrator must have acted with specific knowledge of the place. Fürstenwalde was a large garrison of the Soviets in the 1960s.
In the GDR, there were 1000 reasons why people were silent. Otherwise, it was challenging to make a person disappear just like that, as we know from the countless examples of the Stasi files at the records office.
Was the dead person perhaps a stationed force of the Soviet troops in the GDR? Were the concerned relatives silent because of the Soviets stationed there? Many crimes committed by the Soviets were covered up at the time. Or did the then young woman want to flee to the West and fall into the hands of a human trafficker?
Who knows the woman from the 1960s?
The police in Fürstenwalde take hints. Phone: +493361 5680
After the publication of the first article about one of the most mysterious murder cases in post-war history, we received numerous letters. Many thanks for all advises and comments.
Please read the first part.
Who was the beautiful stranger?
Of course, the question is allowed, why nobody misses the Isdal woman. This circumstance is extraordinary.
Were there people, one reader asked, who did not officially exist, but who rushed like a shadow army through the Cold War of Europe?
That well, maybe. In our research, we have found no evidence to deny or affirm this fact.
Of course, the trail also points to the former Yugoslavia. To the machinations of the days of Tito. This would be following what witnesses said, that the Isdal woman had met with two men of southern appearance. It must have been just before she died.
Yes, and Norway has done everything it can to cover its tracks and, as a deterrent to more Soviet spies, has invented one story after another to avoid the real reason. From the point of view at the time, this was quite understandable. This includes the history of the two check fraudsters who were arrested in 1972 using false identities in their crimes. The public never believed this story, which sounded like a legend of a former police officer who retired in 1976.
Nobody could or would believe in the suicide of the Isdal woman. According to the autopsy report, the Isdal woman was standing when the fire broke out. However, she could not stand any longer according to human judgement, because she had taken a lethal dose of Fenemal and alcohol, voluntarily or involuntarily, this could not be reconstructed. She choked to death on her combustion—carbon monoxide poisoning. Later, during the autopsy, a haematoma was found in the neck area, which could have been caused by a punch or a fall against a tree.
The probable time of death was Monday, 23 November 1970, at about 10 o'clock.
Surely the Isdal woman was not alone in her last hours. In the Hotel Hordaheimen in Bergen, where she was last seen alive, there was a meeting with an unknown man to whom she said she wanted to come straight away.
Since the death of the Isdal woman almost half a century ago, the world has changed—even the faces of the countries. The Isdal woman was a product of her time; that fact is often forgotten.
Her death cannot be atoned for, even if the perpetrator were to turn himself in. The murder is time-barred in Norway after 25 years, in 1995.
Based on a list of the objects that were recovered from the unidentified woman's suitcases and the site in Isdal, Norway, many facts can be reconstructed. Conclusions can also be drawn today from their almost hectic travel activities. At first, the trail of the Isdal woman leads across Europe, then to the German-French border between Pirmasens and Baden-Baden.
This was the result of the enamel analysis in 2016. There, in the vicinity, she must have stayed and also the train tickets found later in the suitcases at least point the way to Basel.
Twice it used the Hamburg - Basel railway line.
The discovery of the map of southern Scandinavia by the Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Stuttgart, from 1970 speaks for this, according to the evidence list of the Norwegian police. Her handwriting was French; perhaps she was from Belgium or Luxembourg.
The intersection, however, can only be located in the Baden-Baden area.
This circumstance can be assumed if the tickets found in the suitcases of the NSB locker system in Bergen are not forged. Or were preliminary placed there later? There is a testimony from a witness, who is not mentioned in the documents, who claims to have seen several people with the suitcases before they were found by the Norwegian Criminal Police, two days after the Isdal woman was found.
In this connection, nine "passport identities" were found. It is not clear from the investigations at the time whether these passports were forged or were duplicates. So, issued by the state whether the passport forms had been stolen somewhere.
What she was doing in Isdal could, of course, be explained with the top-secret Norwegian Sea Penguin. Experiments with the novel rocket were carried out in all places where she was at the time. In November 1970 the paths crossed with two Soviet agents, named Rubanov and Popov, as the security police in Trondheim dutifully noted. Whether the persons met can no longer be determined from the files.
According to another point of view, based on the travel activities of the woman, described as more than elegant, it was a possibility that she was a high-class prostitute who travelled to a specific circle of clients throughout Europe. Perhaps also a drug courier who was killed because of a business in Isdal?
Only the names that the Isdal woman, as she was later called in the absence of a real identity, indicate an activity that had to do with intelligence services at the height of the Cold War.
Genevieve Lancier, Claudia Tielt, Vera Schlosseneck, Claudia Nielsen, Alexia Zarna-Merchez, Vera Jarle, Finella Lorck and Elisabeth Leenhouwer, in addition to other names during the first test phase of the Penguin Rocket: The unknown woman used the wrong names E. Velding and L. on this trip.
Black Notice Interpol, 2017
Selling, according to the Norwegian secret service. Probably, to cover any possible tracks.
According to the language, as witnesses assure who saw her at the end, in November 1970, shortly before her death, she was German. However, she also pretended to be a South African antique dealer to an Italian gala, the photographer Giovanni Trimboli, who had invited her to dinner and took her in his car. That was a few days before her even more mysterious demise in the lonely gorge.
Indeed, she was a child from the time before the war, born around 1926-1930, knew the profession "Verziererin" in the porcelain industry, which is located in Franconia, near the then Czechoslovakian
border, in Selb and its surroundings, had a great tradition. At least she had to know about it. Perhaps through a direct relative or in the context of the so-called Kinderlandverschickung at the end of the Second World War.
She had, for whatever reason, made strange statements on registration forms.
This issue is also indicated by the analysis that was initiated decades later. After an almost creepy exhumation years ago. They got everything from the woman, fingerprints, DNA, the dentures, which raises more questions than it answers. Some sources indicate that the dentition in Latin America was processed in this way. There is no sure indication of this, except the time of the unknown in Spain, probably in the Burgos area, in the north. In December 1970 news came that the dental work had been done in Italy or Spain.
The question is, does anyone recognize this work?
The teeth must have been worked on about three years before her death.
The lower jaw of Isdal woman, Kripos Norge, 2019
The upper jaw of Isdal woman, Kripos Norge, 2019
The work could also have been done in former Czechoslovakia or the GDR. The gold, however, points to work in the Western world at that time. Probably in Germany.
Who can remember this specific set of teeth?
Next part:
Does the trail lead to Ljubljana in former Yugoslavia?
Infiltrated and exfiltrated the beautiful unknown over Yugoslavia or optionally the
Czechoslovakia? The whole case refers to the KoKo and its international art trade.
On June 3, 1995, a Saturday, an emergency call was received by the police in Oslo at about 7.58 pm.
What initially looked like a routine operation turned out to be one of the most mysterious criminal cases in Scandinavia over the following years. The operation took the officers to the then noble hotel "Oslo Plaza" at the main station of the Norwegian capital.
A security guard claimed to have heard a shot from room 2805, on the 28th floor. Two people were allegedly in the room at the time.
The circumstance was important for later investigations.
Someone other than the dead person found in the room on the night of arrival, probably used one of the room key cards.
This happened at about 12:20 pm on the day of arrival. Two days before the events described here. After that, the woman who checked in under the name Jennifer Fergate was only seen twice. Once she gave a princely tip to room service, otherwise the "Do not disturb" sign was hanging on the door. However, the unknown woman must have left the room and also the hotel. When this happened, the records in the Plaza gave no answer.
Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
The room door had been secured from the inside. The plastic key cards were lying in the room.
On the bed, as described in the article "The mysterious death in Oslo Plaza", lay the body of "Jennifer Fergate". A young cultured person, as described by witnesses. The woman was lying on the bed to her left and staring up. A single bullet hole in her forehead. The room was dark. It was quickly established that she had registered under a false name, with a non-existent Belgian address, together with a companion, Lois Fairgate (Fergate). Only Lois Fairgate was missing, he had been seen once, checking in. He was described at about 1.85 m and at that time between 35-40 years.
The purpose of the visit of the stranger, who was in the room and who had been reminded several times to come to the reception, was not clear. She had failed to pay the bill (about 300 euro). The unknown woman had exceeded the credit limit. She had booked the room by telephone for the first time on May 22, 1995, and had rescheduled it for another date on May 31, 1995. Flight list evaluations from these days gave no information about the unknown person.
Traces pointing towards terrorism in which the unknown person could have been involved were quickly discarded. A possible environmental action was also ruled out because of the then known Brent Spar, which was to be sunk off Norway by the oil company Shell.
During these years, the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, from which Oslo I and Oslo II emerged, also took place under Norwegian mediation. It is hard to imagine that someone with such a weighty mission could, under these circumstances, stay in an Oslo hotel, have a meagre last meal and then be shot. By whomever.
A meagre last meal, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
The only thing that remained was the intelligence gathering of information about the Bosnian war. Whole families had saved themselves to Norway. It was the first great wave of escape that had started during the siege of Sarajevo.
Only with what purpose, then, had she travelled to Oslo on untraceable paths and in mysterious legend? The legend was so shaky that it could have been noticed at any time.
There were numerous other theories, but in this case, they could only be understood as working theories. The police in Oslo simply had too few starting points before the dead woman was buried in 1996.
Was the Plaza woman a drug courier? There was nothing to suggest that she was. Not even the luggage. According to her profile, the unknown woman was not a drug dealer who had brought goods to Scandinavia.
Was she a professional assassin or a contract killer? The whole situation would be grotesque, according to the later analysis from 2017, she was born around 1971.
Prostitution in the field of an internationally operating high-class play mate was also ruled out because the woman did not even have cosmetics. The handbag that she had with her when checking in was missing at the site inspection. Even her trousers or skirt were missing.
At that time, the death of the young stranger quickly became the archive of the "Isdal woman" and Kambomans added. What the investigators didn't intend to regard the death of Jane Doe from Plaza Hotel suicide. Too much spoke against it, like removing all labels from the clothes, shoes, and any personal belongings, such as papers, wallet, make-up, from the possessions of the dead. However, the dead woman would have been wearing make-up, the newspapers reported at the time.
Also, the woman, in whose right hand a Belgian 9 mm Browning from Herstal was found, was missing any traces of blood and gunpowder, which would have been typical for such a situation if the woman had judged herself. The weapon was probably made in 1990 or 1991. The gun was fired once for test firing, probably by soundproofing it with a cushion, and then again when the fatal shot was fired.
Right hand, Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
Test shot, Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
How did she come into possession of the pistol and how did this pistol come with her to Norway?
It is also unclear whether the fingerprints of the dead were put into context in Germany.
It was interesting that the gun had been treated with caustic liquid to literally destroy the recognizability of the series.
Since World War II, there are only about 15 corpses that could not be identified in Norway. And only three of the cases seem somehow fatally connected.
The door was locked from the inside, and the key cards were in the room. Investigators only found clothes without labels, all name tags and tags on her clothes were removed, a men's perfume, (Ungaro Pour L'Homme 1 cologne) a travel bag and a briefcase with 32 shots of ammunition.
The woman, born around 1971, wore a Citizen Aqualand (model: CQ-1021-50, serial number: C022-088093 Y, 2010779, GN-4-S). This watch was made in January 1992 and required batteries of type 370 from the Swiss battery manufacturer Renata.
Diving watch Citizen Aqualand, Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
Punches on all batteries indicated that the batteries had been produced in December 1994. Renata explained that the batteries were delivered to shops between December 1994 and January 1995. The punch marks of the watchmaker were W395 (W/change/3/March/95/1995)
Batteries of Renata, stamps, Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
The batteries were probably sold in March 1995 at Hertie Hamburg, Barmbek. At that time it was common practice in this former department store, the "Klotz von Barmbek", to attach such a punch with a nail. It was certainly not the only watchmaker's shop that handled it in this way. However, it is a starting point.
In this context it is interesting whether the dead woman belonged to water sports or diving club.
A jacket of the German fashion brand René Lezard caught the investigators' eye. The Schwarzacher manufacturer René Lezard had just made the jackets more expensive in 1995, it is still not clear where and when this jacket was bought.
In the room the police also found a green-turquoise canvas bag of the German brand Travelite, which produced suitcases and travel accessories in Germany since 1949. Whether this bag was purchased from Hertie - especially for the trip to the Plaza in Oslo - cannot be clarified any more, but in 1995 suitcases and bags of this kind were sold in the Hamburg department store.
The black leather bag of the German brand Braun Büffel from Kirn testifies to the fact that the dead did not exactly vegetate impoverished during her lifetime. The briefcase was part of a collection produced in 1986-91. The gold ring, which the investigators could secure on the right middle finger of the dead woman, had been made in Germany. The quality of the ring (333/8k) was more likely to indicate that the ring had been purchased in a shopping centre, in a chain store at the time, than at a brand jeweller.
Who can remember the gold ring on the right hand of the unknown dead? Who sold this type of ring in the mid-1990s?
The small gold earring worn by the deceased could not be identified.
The unknown deceased must have lived in orderly circumstances. The work on her teeth had been done with porcelain and gold. This work of a dentist could also have been done in Switzerland, Belgium or the USA. She weighed about 67 kg and was 1.59 m tall, had blue eyes and dark hair, perhaps these were dyed.
Years later, after an enamel analysis, the trail led back to Germany.
"For us, the region around Berlin is interesting. Maybe the woman was born in the former GDR", one of the investigators told the Norwegian Gazette vg Nyheter in 2017, who examined the case again in detail. After 22 years the exhumation was ordered.
A dentist who has performed her numerous dental treatments?
Who can provide information about the clothes of the mysterious Jennifer Fergate? The bras could have been bought from C&A (Brenningmeyer) in 1994.
Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
Jennifer Fergate, Kriminal Politi Sentralen, Oslo, Norge
After further research, a completely different picture emerges.
The traces so far indicate whether the young age is after all the Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH (KuA) Französische Str. 15; Berlin- the KuA GmbH of the HVA's main department I, embedded in the former empire of the commercial coordination of Dr. Alexander Schalck Golodkowski.
A trade in used goods of the special socialist kind. An almost unexplored exhibit of German history, allegedly closed down in 1990. But behind the scenes, there was more going on than those responsible could have been happy with. ZERV was almost helplessly at the mercy of the agile embargo criminals from East Berlin.
The privatization, respectively reorganization, of the state-owned enterprise ZERV was art trade from 1990 onwards. Research was carried out accordingly, but many of the looted goods no longer turned up. Many warehouses were still well stocked after reunification. Works of art and antiques were privately distributed by the remaining members of the KoKo.
At KuA GmbH, the antiques and works of art stolen by the Stasi in the early 1960s, which had been widely circulated in the GDR since Operation Light, were distributed to non-socialist countries. In the process, stolen paintings and coin and stamp collections were sold via western contacts of KuA GmbH with the knowledge of the then Minister Mielke if state security raids.
Many traces of Stasi stolen goods led to Scandinavia, including this case:
One of the examples is the Sophien treasure. On 20 September 1977, the "Sophienschatz", 58 golden grave goods worth approx. 3.0 million euros disappeared from a tank display case of the Dresden City Museum.
In 1999 38 pieces of the collection appeared in Oslo: In 1999 a coin dealer tried to sell 38 to auction off parts of the Sophien Treasure in Oslo. Parts of the loot turned up in England. The Oslo
Coin dealer Gunnar Thesen had acquired the pieces in good faith from the Copenhagen-based dealer Arne Jacob Becker (†1983) from KuA GmbH. He acted for the KoKo in non-socialist foreign countries to raise urgently needed foreign currency.
Who can provide relevant information in this respect?
Did anyone with the appearance of Jennifer Fergate in 1995 work for a group of art connoisseurs who wanted to recover items stolen from the KoKo?
Does anyone know the woman from the art trade or real estate industry as a secretary?
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Anyone who deals with what is by far the most mysterious criminal case in post-war European history must start on November 29,1970, in the Ulriken Bergen, in Isdalen.
A father and his two daughters found the body of a woman on this Sunday afternoon, the first Advent of this year.
This case had all the ingredients of an espionage thriller, which could only have happened in the Cold War era. It made sense that Taxi nach Leipzig, the first crime scene in the ARD programme in Germany, was running that evening for the first time.
The Norwegian public prosecutor Carl Halvor Aas, then 30 years old, was on duty that day and found his own, quite real crime thriller with the case in a small valley, in a poorly accessible rocky gorge, in the area of Bergen in Norway.
The former prosecutor in charge recalled in an interview with NOK and the BBC, which was conducted many years later, that the smell of the charred body had particularly entered his nose before he even saw the body.
The area was picturesque. Between dense tree cover and mossy stones, at a safe distance from one of the paths, lay the half-carbonized body of the approximately 30-year-old and, as reconstructed later, quite a pretty woman. She had also already attracted attention during her short lifetime, as the rather slowed down police investigations revealed shortly afterwards. Braked by whomever, it was not clear and was not clarified.
It remained one of the many secrets in this case.
Even the place of discovery offered a criminally very confused picture. Burned rubber boots, which would later become a substantial lead in the case. A tube of phenobarbital sleeping pills, a packed lunch and an empty bottle of alcohol. Besides, two white plastic bottles, whose smell indicated gasoline, and a burnt passport. A purse? Wrong!
Allegedly the dead woman had succumbed to an overdose of sleeping pills and carbon monoxide poisoning associated with the fire. Soot was found in her lungs, although, according to instructions from above, suicide was indicated, it was almost impossible that the Jane Doe had committed suicide. A box of matches from the German sex shop operator Beate Uhse was found at the crime scene as a spicy detail. Later the matches were allegedly also found in one of the suitcases from the station.
Everything, in this case, was contradictory.
The horrible find, Statsarkivet-i-Bergen
A disturbing puzzle of possible entanglements resulted from the objects and later in the two suitcases from the lockers at the station with the luggage of the unknown woman. These traces did not lead to the identity of the unknown person, nor a motive, nor the perpetrator. The circumstances are also more than strange and therefore also lead to the most adventurous speculations, which entwine themselves like a spider's web around the more than 48-year-old case. The find is still one of the most sensational criminal cases in Norway today and has been riding journalists worldwide for decades.
Nothing is defined in this case.
Hours later witnesses came forward who were treated very unconventionally for a murder investigation. It was not until the beginning of the millennium that further testimonies on this subject were given, which took the attention. Witnesses who saw the dead woman with two southerners were just didn't taken down as a note by the Police. The witnesses were forbidden to talk at all about their observation. Who or what the southerners were, who the person who died a few days later knew, with whom she had a lively conversation, remained in the dark. The unknown woman stayed at the Hordaheimen Hotel in Bergen days before her death, from November 19 to 23. This stay under a false name, an alias or one of the many identities that a person had. Was one of the strangers, with whom the later deceased in a summer dress was talking, the Soviet military attaché in Norway, who was in Bergen at the same time?
Who was that woman?
If anyone recognizes the woman or thinks he or she knows her, can give any clues as to her identity, can say anything about the so-called Isdal woman, please contact the local police.
It became mysterious when several suitcases were found in an expired locker, and the contents could be connected to the dead woman. In the suitcases, props were found that could have come from a spy movie or just a crazy person. So fingerprints of the deceased were preserved on fake glasses. These matched the body found on November 29, 1970.
On the crime scene, Statsarkivet-i-Bergen
Another curiosity in the whole behaviour of the dead was the constant changing of identities, the creation of tables with seemingly coded groups of numbers that made up a systematic code. Not every woman of about 30 years of age was able to create codes in this form at that time and why would she, when she was travelling through Europe, create such codes at all?
The labels had been removed from the clothes.
Why did the unknown travel through Europe for several months during her lifetime, giving different names?
Later, one of the investigators involved in the case credibly claimed that the Military Intelligence had searched the two suitcases found in the locker before the police. Whether this was the case, no one can say how everything in the case was and is "a maybe" or "possible".
For quite some time it had been suspected that the Norwegian Military Intelligence Service was trying to suppress the proceedings. There were several reasons for this. During the Cold War, Norway was the country on whose coasts Soviet submarines operated. Besides, spies from the Eastern Bloc infiltrated the West via Norway.
But why would Counterintelligence protect a foreign agent? According to several parties involved in the proceedings, the police investigation was considerably obstructed.
Part 2 Does the trail lead to the HVA in East Berlin?
In the most mysterious serial murder case in Belgian criminal history there is movement again after 38 years. The deeds of the "Gang of the Brabant" are sufficiently described in the lower section of this article.
In this context, the Belgian police ask:
Who is this man?
Can anyone give any information about this man?
(Perhaps also in connection with paramilitary groups in South Africa (Transvaal) or the Congo (Katanga) in the 1980s?)
This person holds in the photo a double-action rifle (pump/semi-auto) of the Italian brand Franchi type Spas 12 - calibre 12.
Released by the order of the Magistrate Mrs Michel in Charleroi
If you recognize this man, please contact the investigators on the free phone 0800/30 300 or from abroad 00 32 2 554.44.88
Update:
update 12/17/2018
Who recognizes these number plates or vehicles?
Rijkswacht Belgie
Who remembers these objects, or knows someone who has owned them?
Checks from the Delhaize van Aalst, found in "large de Fauquez". Rijkswacht Belgie
Fast, brutal force, 28 dead and pink ballets
In the first half of the 1980s, the province of Brabant was plagued by a group of robbers.
During raids, they took little money, but they left 28 dead and, according to estimates at the time, more than 20 injured.
The group's militarily targeted action was already frightening back then, in 1985, after the last robbery of a Delhaize supermarket in Aalst. During the attack, the phantoms captured a few thousand Belgian francs, still valid at the time, but left eight dead and nine injured.
Afterwards, the series ended abruptly.
The investigators already suspected the perpetrators in their ranks, many leads led nowhere and to the Belgian Gladio group, which was years later exposed.
Also, into a kind of nationally and internationally working child molester ring, which is the Pink Ballet. The main person mentioned in connection with this Pink Ballet, a particular Brussels doctor, André Pinon, had left for Portugal at the beginning of the millennium. During his divorce proceedings, he was repeatedly placed in the context of child sex and drug parties that took place in the highest circles of Belgian society.
The entanglement of the Brabant gang with Belgian right-wing radicals was also evident, in the connection between Paul Latinus, the head of the Westland New Post and a former South African policeman of Belgian origin, Jean-Philippe van Engeland. The latter had left for Paraguay to join Stroessner in 1982.
Le geant or the invisible giant
Somewhat strange business partners
At the Rand Show in April 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa, strange things happened. Not only the business downturn, due to international sanctions, which could be avoided by conferencing with the consultant of a company from Seychelles, but also other things.
Nothing was going on at the formerly flourishing trade fair in the South African metropolis. At best, the beer was flowing.
In South Africa's everyday life, one had arrived in the reality of UN sanctions.
Dark chocolates - chocolates with filling
Two Belgians, who not only ate dark chocolates at the booths but were also otherwise gladly arrested in the mercenary business, offered their services at the fair, along with machines and hydraulics. They lived in Waver in Brabant and preferred to chat at the Castle Lager at the long buffet of the Holiday Inn in Johannesburg's city centre about the gang that was still keeping Belgium on tenterhooks at the time.
They knew simply everything about the Brabant gang and were friends with van Engeland, according to their statements. At first, the German businessman thought he had been put on the spinning wheel to sell his hydraulics. It soon became clear that the two Brabanters knew considerably more than the Belgian press.
In the evening, in the bar on the 10th floor of the hotel in Johannesburg, they announced that the gangsters who had judged harmless passers-by and supermarket visitors were from the ranks of the police. They had allegedly learned this from their friend, van Engeland, who is sympathetic to the now-disbanded Westland New Post, far to the right. Latinus had died in April 1984. That's where the Brabant gang's trail led in later investigations.
In August 1987 the three negotiating partners wanted to meet again, this time in Waver near Brussels in Belgium. It was about hydraulic systems for weirs.
At the first meeting this worked out excellently, and the potential profit for the small company in Germany made him travel to the next meeting after the barbecue with the friendly Belgians and their friends.
Back to Waver. It was in the summer of 1987.
But, to make matters worse, the house was now occupied by a couple who had returned home from the Congo and couldn't make sense of what they had said. But the German businessman was unlucky; his Belgian business partners seemed to have vanished into thin air.
The telephone number he called was one of the Belgian couples from Waver. They had already informed the police and filed a report for burglary.
He had to leave again without having achieved anything. He never heard from the ominous business partners again and wondered how the business partners might have known about the real culprits years ago.
The German businessman, who made his misfortune known at every party, only connected the episode with the events of the time years later.
New findings
Two years ago, in 2015, one of the people involved in the deathbed at the time, "Le Geant", is said to have told on the deathbed about his murders and confessed man was the long-sought giant. Piquantly, the giant was a former elite police officer.
Were there any connections between Jean Michel Nihoul and the Brabant gang?
Did the Pink Ballet exist and were the raids staged by the Gang of Brabant just the prelude to a whole series of acts that followed?
Fifty-two girls disappeared without a trace during this period, without the Belgian authorities being able to clarify their fate in any lasting way.
Were Dutroux and his accomplices, including his ex-wife, the primary school teacher M. Martin, really just the procurers for a whole network of paedophiles? In the Dutroux case, numerous witnesses were murdered, and Jean Michel Nihoul often spoke vaguely about his role in the Dutroux case.
He was also responsible for drugs, which would again refer to the Pink Ballet.
The Special Police Unit, in which the late Giant worked, is attributed to Gladio, NATO's underground network during the Cold War.
Did officials from the Belgian judicial system cover the so-called Pink Ballet, as well as the Special Police Unit?
It would prove that the Belgian public was right to march 300,000 through Brussels city centre when there was a near-rebellion in Belgium. Back when the gruesome murders were uncovered after the deliberate abduction of the girls.
Are gang members of the Brabant gangsters behind the deaths of the witnesses in the Dutroux trial?
If you hear the opinion, not the rumours, that the ordinary citizens in Nivelles are behind the hand more than 30 years after the deeds, it must be so. Twenty-eight dead people speak their language, who stood in the environment of Dutroux and the gang of Brabant.
That is likely.
It is also supported by the fact that the former investigator Eddy Vos, who was the lion's share of the investigation into the Brabant gang, asked to be transferred at his request and was subsequently threatened most severely.
Under Belgian law, the deeds are now time-barred unless the remaining members of the Brabant robbers can be shown to have been involved in the murder of witnesses in the Dutroux case. The only connection to these secret Pink Ballets and a trace that the Brabant robbers allegedly shot participants of these "events" while raiding the markets.
Only this fact would prove that Brabant's gang did not just break up, but was active until very recently.
The story of the unknown woman, who was found in the county of Kent in the United Kingdom, in the autumn (23 October 1979) of 1979, by a horsewoman passing by chance, is quickly told. The dead woman went down in British criminal history as the Bedgebury Forest Woman.
The woman was murdered in an unprecedented act and then badly beaten up. The body had been hidden under branches. As the British police had no clues as to the identity of the dead, posters were put up throughout the Kingdom and the rest of Europe. There seems to have been no significant indication at that time.
Did the woman come from Eastern Europe?
She was trapped in abject poverty and had probably taken the gateway to England in the port of Dover. The starting point was probably the motorway, which was very popular with hitchhikers at that time. But even this trail led nowhere. There were suspicions that the woman might have come from the north of England, this lead was also discarded.
Her molars were in an extremely bad condition and she had no visible
dental treatment. At the time of her death, she was between 30 and 35 years old.
Years later, in 1984, the case was even covered by the BBC in the then very popular partner format of the German investigative program XY ungelöst, Crime Watch.
The only usable lead for the investigators around the then team of TV icon Susan Cook was a dress that had probably been sewn by herself.
An ovarian pregnancy of the dead was the subject in the program. She had given birth to a child before. Where the child was, no one could say.
Only many years later did it become public that the show was quite successful, that someone had contacted us who could at least give a hint about the unknown dead woman. Apparently, the dress had been given to a Second-Hand market by a woman years before. The murder squad was unable to pursue any further trail because too much time had also passed. There was simply nothing solid to indicate the identity of the dead. In 1999, the case was again handled by Crime Watch.
At the beginning of the Millennium, a former truck driver, who also admitted to having picked up the dead woman hitchhiking, was acquitted in the court of having committed the crime.
To this day the case remains unsolved and is one of the most mysterious murders in the British Kingdom.
If anyone knows anything about the woman, they should contact
Kent Police Headquarters, Sutton Road, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 9BZ+441622 690690.
On Tuesday, June 21 1988, workers in the forest close to Rosbach, near the BAB 5 motorway in area of the Friedberg junction in the direction of Frankfurt / Main, found in a drainage ditch a skeletonised corpse, apparently the body had been deposited only weeks earlier.
Location: in the municipal forest of Rosbach on the BAB 5 in the area of the AS Friedberg in direction Frankfurt Police Hesse
These days before the Olympics in Seoul were quiet, a clue to the time is the goal of the month by Marco van Basten of the Dutch national team.
In April May 1988 Otto Rehhagel celebrated his first and Werder Bremen's second German Championship.
In May 1988, the ICE V set a new world record of 406.9 km/h on the new line between Würzburg and Mottgers (Hesse). Klaus Töpfer, Federal Minister for the Environment, took a bath in the Rhine these days, everyone remembers these events.
The body was probably dumped in the woods near the A5 motorway during these weeks. Who can provide relevant information in this respect?
The situation in which the body was found undoubtedly indicated a homicide, explains the joint report of the criminal investigation department and the public prosecutor's office in Gießen- even though the type of death could not be determined due to the state of decomposition during the autopsy.
Not even the sex was explicit. It was assumed, as the contribution to the case of Rudi Cerne in xy unsolved showed, that the unknown was a man.
Apart from an ear stud, there were no personal papers or objects that could have led to the identification of the body so that no perpetrator could be identified. The case was closed.
earring_176x176, police headquarters Mittelhessen
It was not until 2017 that the Cold Case was resumed, with surprising twists and turns.
First, it was determined that the corpse was a woman who came from Europe, a later Isotope analysis revealed that she must have been born in the border area, probably in a mountainous region between Poland and Ukraine, from 1953 to 1963. In Adolescent, she came to the southern Alpine region, between Switzerland and/or northern Italy.
Surprisingly, until shortly before her sudden death, she lived in India or Southeast Asia, there near the sea. This issue is indicated by the food residues detected by isotope analysis. Only shortly before her death, she returned to Germany. After that, another Face reconstruction by an expert from the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida in Saxony was performed.
In this context, it is pointless to speculate, as happened on social networks, whether the dead woman had perhaps lived with the Bhagwan sect of the Osho in Poona, India before she came back to Germany. Maybe she travelled in Europe as a tourist and was only by chance in Frankfurt when she met her murderer. Although the distance to the sea and the time of the former sect camp are the same, the ear stud also reminds of the Baghwan sect.
However, one should not commit oneself to India. Speculation does not help, only facts.
More interesting is the consideration of whether a classmate from Italy or the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland can remember the unknown victim.
(Therefore, this article is also available in Italian and even in Russian, button at the bottom of the page with the respective country flags)
This results in the following personal profile for the criminal investigation department and public prosecutor's office in Giessen: The dead woman was slender, aged 25 - 35 years, born between 1953 and 1963 had medium brown curly hair and was last wearing a gold-coloured ear stud (see picture) about 1.65 m tall shoe size: 34-35
She had grown-up in mountainous regions in south-eastern Poland or border areas of Ukraine during puberty.
If necessary, change of location to southern Alpine regions, e.g. Switzerland or northern Italy Lived for a more extended period in India or other maritime South Asian regions.
The victim returned to Central Europe / Germany in mid-1988
She was not a drug user.
The police and prosecutors are now asking:
Who knows the person described and can provide information about their identity?
Please inform the police in Friedberg,
administrative department - police headquarters Mittelhessen
Officer in charge Friedberg Criminal Investigation Department, K 10
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Phone (06031) 601 - 0
Source for the joint press release
Thomas Hauburger, press spokesman public prosecutor's office Gießen
One of the most mysterious missing person cases after the war in the Federal Republic of Germany is the disappearance of 2-year-old Katrice Lee, who disappeared with her parents in an English supermarket on 28 November 1981,
"NAAFI Shopping Center", went to Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus and vanished without a trace in the checkout area.
The girl, who had a severe visual defect in her left eye, had already undergone surgery and might have been noticed. What happened can only be guessed. It must have been fractions of a second that caused the girl to disappear. Katrice Lee was never seen again.
What initially looked like an accident- has turned out to be one of the most mysterious missing person cases in Germany over the decades. After Katrice they even dug in the river Alme. Nothing. Eyewitnesses from 1981 saw a man carrying a little girl to a green limousine at the time of Katrice's disappearance.
The girl's parents are firmly convinced that the now 40-year-old is still alive, under a different name.
Unknown offender sketch - Royal Military Police HIA Bulford
Whether the crime was connected to an incident two years earlier, in 1979, in front of a fast-food restaurant attached to a restaurant on the former school grounds of Eringerfeld Castle is still not clear. At that time, the local Steinhauser Strasse was observed for days from two vehicles in which British people were sitting and people, mainly young schoolgirls, were photographed. Before the police could intervene, the unidentified persons had disappeared. During this time, they had changed places more often and had retreated to the parking lot of an adjacent wooded area.
Castle Eringerfeld was 30 km away from Paderborn.
During this period the IRA was particularly active. Sources say that Katrice was taken hostage for the IRA because her father served with the British, "British Forces Germany".
In this context, there were several attacks in the Federal Republic of Germany, including in Münster, Mönchengladbach, Unna, Hanover, Osnabrück, Bielefeld and Dortmund. All the acts have taken place since the early 1980s.
Kidnappings were a speciality of the IRA, which at the time was waging unrestricted war against the British. There were countless examples, such as the case of the mother of ten, Jean McConville, who was abducted in 1972 and only became known decades later. Or the case of Thomas Niedermayer, the Grundig representative in Belfast and then German honorary consul, who was abducted in 1973 and only found in 1980 in a wild dump near Belfast.
In connection with the kidnapping of Katrice Lee, the Royal Military Police - HIA Bulford telephone 0800 / 723 5229 requests relevant information.
Dead girl from the Main, July 31 2001, BKA- Wiesbaden, 2019
There are criminal cases that are so horrible even years after they have become known that they burn themselves into the memory of everyone.
One of these still unsolved cases is that of the girl who was fished out of the Main by passers-by on July 31 2001, shortly before three o'clock in the afternoon, in Frankfurt-Nied, at the level of a local recreation area.
The female corpse was wrapped in a leopard pattern duvet cover, weighted down with a parasol stand.
Leopard skin duvet cover, a girl from the Main, BKA, 2019
The umbrella stand of the ELFE with the type designation 505KE was distributed in the Federal Republic of Germany by various DIY stores, including, as the publication of the BKA showed, by OBI, HORNBACH and Praktiker.
The only good traces were the nalas, knots that are used to ponder bloomers, which pointed to the region in the Pakistan -Pakistani-Afghan border area.
Who knows the young woman?
Did she perhaps live in the vicinity of the Afghan embassy in Bonn at the time? It remained a mystery how she had entered the country.
Can anyone provide details of an honour killing in this context?
Or maybe someone noticed this girl in connection with a purchase. She was very skinny and was only 1.57 tall when she was found. Two rib fractures caused by blunt force injuring the lungs and spleen were fatal.
The criminals assume that the unknown woman has been severely maltreated for years. The cauliflower ear also pointed this out. Numerous burn scars all over the body, partly reminding of cigarette burns.
Who can give information about the Nalas, who recognizes the knots? One of the ribbons is white; the second ribbon is striped along with purple and white.
The young woman, who was born around 1985, was repeatedly the victim of massive violence during her lifetime and, during the following autopsy, showed numerous bone fractures that had never been treated.
Police officers paid for the funeral back then.
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