'Dead' woman found alive 31 years later.

[Jodell88]

German police say a woman who disappeared in 1984, sparking a murder hunt, has been found alive and well and living in Duesseldorf.

Petra Pazsitka, then 24, was declared dead five years after she went missing from her student accommodation.

A man convicted of murdering a teenager who went missing nearby confessed to killing the young woman too.

However police investigating a robbery came across a tenant, a 55-year-old woman, who had no ID.

She told the officers that she had been living under a false identity and gave them her real name.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34376030

I wonder why she wanted to disappear? :hmm:

 

[waggy]

glad someone wasn't put to death for her murder..

 

[ALIVE]

glad someone wasn't put to death for her murder..

the real question is
why the police found someone to confess her murder???

it seems police is extremely good to get confesses
so being in the wrong place the wrong time can ruin your life

will be an investigation to the people involved in this confession
and see if the man was insane
or was made to confess

putting an innocent in the prison does not solve the problem of crimes
if police does a bad job and send an innocent in jail they should be punished
and also face jail time

i prefer to have crimes unsolved than having people confessing
police is to protect not to fix statistics

 

[OverVolt]

the real question is
why the police found someone to confess her murder???

it seems police is extremely good to get confesses
so being in the wrong place the wrong time can ruin your life

will be an investigation to the people involved in this confession
and see if the man was insane
or was made to confess

putting an innocent in the prison does not solve the problem of crimes
if police does a bad job and send an innocent in jail they should be punished
and also face jail time

i prefer to have crimes unsolved than having people confessing
police is to protect not to fix statistics

Hmm its haiku guy

 

[Red Squirrel]

I wonder how often people confess to crimes just because they're being tortured to do so. Would not surprise me if it happens a lot. Cops don't really care if they get the right guy, they just want *a* guy so they can close their case and move on.

 

[feralkid]

I wonder how often people confess to crimes just because they're being tortured to do so. Would not surprise me if it happens a lot. Cops don't really care if they get the right guy, they just want *a* guy so they can close their case and move on.

Sometimes true, unfortunately.

 

[mmntech]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to fake my own death and hit the reboot button on my life. Start anew with no baggage. Don't think I could go through with it though.

I wonder what her story is.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to fake my own death and hit the reboot button on my life. Start anew with no baggage. Don't think I could go through with it though.

I wonder what her story is.

I don't actually have a reason to, but I always pondered on that too. Like if I was being convicted of a crime or received a lawsuit letter or something that I know I can't afford to pay, I'd want to just disappear and start over so I can get away from that situation. Disappearing is probably not that hard, you can just fake a really gruesome death where nothing is left to ID you, but reappearing as someone else would be the hard part. Every move you do these days is tracked. Even once you do make it to another country, you need to somehow get proper documents in order so you can even do anything like get a job.

I know a guy who's a vacuum salesmen who knows more than me about this stuff though...

 

[ninaholic37]

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to fake my own death and hit the reboot button on my life. Start anew with no baggage. Don't think I could go through with it though.

I've started fresh 3 or 4 times. Just move to a new city far away where you don't know anyone, change your number and don't keep in contact with anyone, etc. It kind of feels meh and empty when you're aloof and a misfit anyway, like there's no 'purpose' no matter where you are, but I guess someone friendly and bouncy with motivations and goals might find it interesting.

 

[Tombstone1881]

Sometimes there are people who are over the edge crazy enough to confess to a crime they never commit. Perhaps for notoriety? Perhaps homeless and for a way to get 3 hots and a cot for a while? My cynical side feels that most of them were coerced.


Astonishingly, more than 1 out of 4 people wrongfully convicted but later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession or incriminating statement.

http://www.innocenceproject.org/causes-wrongful-conviction/false-confessions-or-admissions

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Is Germany big on plea bargaining? I always assumed it was more of an American thing.

 

[ALIVE]

Is Germany big on plea bargaining? I always assumed it was more of an American thing.

why even plea bargain???
either they have a solid case
or they do not and they only thing to convict you will be your testimony

but besides the person who confess by his will or not

there is also another problem in the story

someone living with no documentations in a country

before the ISIS problems and the muslim attacks in europe
someone hiding was not causing problems apart may that person was a criminal and was avoiding justice

but besides all the controls the normal people have to endure for the criminal aspects there is lots of room to by pass them

its like dvd moovies you buy one
but you can not make a copy because of the protection
disc scratched you loose your moovie
computer games also

in the end the law obiting person is bite in the ass while all others enjoy a better life

 

[dawp]

false confessions are fairly common with people that have mental problems. and sometime police take that and run with a high profile case just to close it.

 

[MongGrel]

Hmm its haiku guy

It's kind of odd he's been here this long and that many posts, and I just do not recall him much.

Maybe he posted a lot the first year before I joined guess.

false confessions are fairly common with people that have mental problems. and sometime police take that and run with a high profile case just to close it.

Yeah, pretty much. A lot of jails are largely metal institutions these days at any rate of course. And they are usually the ones that get booted out onto the street again soonest.

 

[lykaon78]

Maybe the confession wasn't false, by way of a correct confession to a murder but had the victim wrong.