They have never experienced such a horror story in Ingolstadt. That a CNN reporter is suddenly in charge of the local police headquarters? That the “Washington Post” is reporting that TV teams from all over Germany are announcing their presence, that production companies are planning elaborate crime documentaries? The case, which has been being heard at the Ingolstadt regional court since Tuesday, actually sounds too much like Netflix to be true.

Just one day later, a young woman who was believed to be dead and had suffered more than 50 knife wounds became a suspected murderer, the head of a seemingly perfidious doppelganger plot, a deadly identity fraud.

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