A woman who was presumed to have been murdered suddenly resurfaced more than three decades after she disappeared without a trace.
Petra Pazsitka, from Braunschweig in northern Germany, was 24 when she was last spotted on July 26, 1984.
On that day, the computer science student attended a dental appointment before boarding a bus at around 3pm to visit her parents in the nearby city of Wolfsburg.
However, she never arrived, and Petra's case subsequently featured on 'Aktenzeichen XY' - the German equivalent of 'Crimewatch' - which recreated the young woman's final movements prior to her disappearance.
Yet no one came forward following the broadcast with any information regarding her whereabouts,reports the Daily Star.
The following year, a 19-year-old carpenter's apprentice named Günter K admitted to the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl in the same vicinity where Petra was last seen. Two years later, he 'confessed' to also killing the university student.
However, her body was never found, and in 1989 she was officially declared dead and the case was closed.
Then, in September 2015, police in Düsseldorf were called to investigate a burglary at the home of a 55-year-old woman.
Officers soon discovered the victim's original identification documents at the property, prompting her to confess that she had been living under a false identity for over 30 years and was, in fact, Petra Pazsitka.
A police spokesperson said at the time: "She said only a little about the background of her disappearance and why she left back then. She said that she had prepared for it and that she wanted it."
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
