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Today I would like to introduce to you one of the most mysterious unsolved criminal cases of German history.
It was broadcasted on April 12, 1985, in an episode of Aktenzeichen XY (cf. Crimewatch).
Günther Stoll, an unemployed food tech worker from Anzhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia) felt haunted over a longer period in 1984. Without further explanation he spoke frequently of "them" wanting to hurt him, most recently on October 25, 1984, when shortly before 11 p.m. he was sitting apathetically in an arm chair of the bedroom in the present of his wife and suddenly shouted: "Now I begin to see the light!" Then he wrote six letters "YOG'TZE" (maybe in stead of the capital letter G it was the number 6) on a piece of paper but crossed it out immediately.
Subsequently, Stoll went on his way to his favourite pub in Wilnsdorf, where he arrived shortly after. he ordered a beer, but then fell backwards, without warning, from his bar stool, and suffered a facial injury. He appeared not intoxicated at this time.
After the incident, Stoll left the pub and drove away with his blue Volkswagen Golf II. He was not seen for the next two hours. At 1 o'clock in the morning Stoll appeared in Haiger Seelbach, where he had grown up, to spend a nightly visit to an old woman, who was said to be very religious and lived in the neighbourhood of his childhood home. The later victim pushed for a conversation with the lady and forecast a "terrible event" for this night. Given the late hour she refused the somewhat confused-looking man she had known since his childhood. Then his trail was lost again for about two hours.
At 3 o'clock in the morning two truck drivers discovered the damaged Volkswagen Golf of Günther Stoll in a ditch off Autobahn A 45 just before the exit Hagen-Süd. Both later testified that they had seen a person walking around the car, which they thought to be injured. To provide assistance, they stopped and made an emergency call to the police. In the car was - completely naked - the seriously injured Günther Stoll, who was then still conscious. He told the men, there had been four other men in the car who "just took off". Stoll died on the way to hospital.
The investigations revealed that the fatal injuries of the victim had not been caused by the accident, but that Stoll was run over elsewhere by a different vehicle, then set into his Volkswagen Golf and driven to the spot of the accident. Stoll must have been already undressed then. The damage to his car were caused by the accident on the autobahn. Where the offence was committed could not be determined.
The meaning of the letter combination "YOG'TZE" remains a mystery to this day. The police found out that such a word exists in no language in the world.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogtze-Fall (German, the above text is a translation of it)
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1qCBeQCGI (German)
It was broadcasted on April 12, 1985, in an episode of Aktenzeichen XY (cf. Crimewatch).
Günther Stoll, an unemployed food tech worker from Anzhausen (North Rhine-Westphalia) felt haunted over a longer period in 1984. Without further explanation he spoke frequently of "them" wanting to hurt him, most recently on October 25, 1984, when shortly before 11 p.m. he was sitting apathetically in an arm chair of the bedroom in the present of his wife and suddenly shouted: "Now I begin to see the light!" Then he wrote six letters "YOG'TZE" (maybe in stead of the capital letter G it was the number 6) on a piece of paper but crossed it out immediately.
Subsequently, Stoll went on his way to his favourite pub in Wilnsdorf, where he arrived shortly after. he ordered a beer, but then fell backwards, without warning, from his bar stool, and suffered a facial injury. He appeared not intoxicated at this time.
After the incident, Stoll left the pub and drove away with his blue Volkswagen Golf II. He was not seen for the next two hours. At 1 o'clock in the morning Stoll appeared in Haiger Seelbach, where he had grown up, to spend a nightly visit to an old woman, who was said to be very religious and lived in the neighbourhood of his childhood home. The later victim pushed for a conversation with the lady and forecast a "terrible event" for this night. Given the late hour she refused the somewhat confused-looking man she had known since his childhood. Then his trail was lost again for about two hours.
At 3 o'clock in the morning two truck drivers discovered the damaged Volkswagen Golf of Günther Stoll in a ditch off Autobahn A 45 just before the exit Hagen-Süd. Both later testified that they had seen a person walking around the car, which they thought to be injured. To provide assistance, they stopped and made an emergency call to the police. In the car was - completely naked - the seriously injured Günther Stoll, who was then still conscious. He told the men, there had been four other men in the car who "just took off". Stoll died on the way to hospital.
The investigations revealed that the fatal injuries of the victim had not been caused by the accident, but that Stoll was run over elsewhere by a different vehicle, then set into his Volkswagen Golf and driven to the spot of the accident. Stoll must have been already undressed then. The damage to his car were caused by the accident on the autobahn. Where the offence was committed could not be determined.
The meaning of the letter combination "YOG'TZE" remains a mystery to this day. The police found out that such a word exists in no language in the world.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogtze-Fall (German, the above text is a translation of it)
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1qCBeQCGI (German)
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