‘Doppelganger murder’: German prosecutors claim woman killed lookalike to fake death

Ingolstadt body identified by family as 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman was later found to be Algerian blogger

A 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman sought out a lookalike on Instagram and murdered her with a friend in order to fake her own death, prosecutors in Bavaria believe.

When the blood-covered body of a young woman was found last August in a parked Mercedes in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, reports initially identified the victim as Sharaban K, a Munich-based 23-year-old beautician with Iraqi roots.