How could a suspect have confessed to killing Petra Pazsitka 31 years ago when she wasn’t even dead…?
In 1984, the 24-year-old college student vanished without a trace from the city of Braunschweig where she was studying computer science.
After her missing persons case was broadcast on a popular TV show, a man accused in the sexual assault and death of a young German girl admitted to Pazsitka’s rape and slaying, too.
The remains of the allegedly slain woman were never found, though, so in 1989 police closed her murder investigation, leaving it in cold case status as partially unsolved.
This autumn, however, they received an interesting emergency call from a 55-year-old woman reporting that her Dusseldorf home had just been burglarized.
Cops arrived to investigate a break-in at the residence of one “Mrs. Schneider,” only to discover, when she tried to file a formal complaint with them, that the robbery victim was … well … sort of dead:
Apparently Schneider couldn’t use an alias to fill out the required paperwork, and when she told the cops she was actually Petra Pazsitka they made the *murdered woman* produce documents to prove it.
Pazsitka gave the astounded officers her expired student ID card, but “no explanation” whatsoever for faking her decades-long disappearance and brutal death.
In fact, according to a German law enforcement official, she “expressly said that she continues to want no contact with the public or her family.”
