YOGTZE case

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The "YOGTZE case" (also known as the " BAB puzzle") describes the unexplained death of a 34-year-old man from Siegerland on October 26, 1984. In cooperation with the investigating Kripo Hagen , the ZDF broadcast the television series Aktenzeichen XY am April 12, 1985 made a film about the case. The case has not yet been resolved.

Case presentation (according to XY)

background

Günther Stoll, a jobless food technician from Anzhausen , felt persecuted for a long period of time in 1984. Without further clarification, he often spoke of "those" who wanted to harm him.

On October 25, 1984, when shortly before 11 p.m. he was sitting somewhat apathetically in an armchair in the shared bedroom in the presence of his wife, he shouted: “Now the light is coming on!” Then he wrote the six letters “YOG'TZE” ( possibly instead of the capital G it was also the number 6) on a piece of paper, but crossed it out again immediately.

Then Stoll went to his favorite pub in Wilnsdorf . He ordered a beer, but fell back off his bar stool with no prior notice, injuring his face. He didn't seem drunk at the time. To the landlord and guests who helped him up, he explained that he was "suddenly gone".

Shortly after the incident Stoll left the bar and drove his blue VW Golf I continue. His whereabouts for the next two hours are unknown. At 1 o'clock in the morning Stoll appeared in Haigerseelbach , where he had grown up, at an old woman he knew well, who was considered very religious and lived in the immediate vicinity of his parents' house. Stoll forced her to talk to her and predicted a "terrible event" for that night. However, because of the nightly hour, she turned away the confused-looking man she had known since childhood. The lady testified that she had advised Stoll to go to his parents' house nearby, which he reportedly refused by saying that they would not understand his concern there. On the subsequent advice to go back to his wife in Anzhausen, he is said to have replied that she was probably right and that he wanted to heed her advice. However, his trail was then lost again for around two hours.

Find

At 3 a.m., two truck drivers discovered the accident-damaged VW Golf Günther Stolls in a ditch on the A 45 just before the Hagen-Süd exit, about 100 kilometers from Haigerseelbach. Both testified independently that they saw a person wearing a light-colored jacket walking around the car who they believed was injured. They stopped and called the police from an emergency telephone . In the car lay, completely naked, the seriously injured Günther Stoll, who was still poorly conscious. She did not meet other people. Stoll reported to the men that there were four other men in the car who had "cut off". When asked whether they were friends, he said no. Stoll died on the way to the hospital.

YOGTZE note

The slip of paper on which Günther Stoll is said to have written the letter combination could not be secured. According to her, the wife threw the note away on the night of death. In addition, the victim's widow did not talk about the combination of characters until six months after the crime. The police don't even know for sure whether “YOGTZE” should mean “YOGTZE” at all. The police only found out that such a word does not exist in any language in the world.

In the then Aktenzeichen-XY broadcast, several radio amateurs reported that they agreed that it could have been a Romanian radio call sign if you read the letter G as the number 6. Since this reference was not dealt with in the further reporting on the case, this lead should not have led to a result.

Investigations and clues

The investigations revealed that the fatal injuries to the victim were not caused by the accident, but that Stoll was run over by a vehicle at another location, then placed in the passenger seat of his VW Golf and driven to the site. Stoll was already naked at the time he was hit. Unlike his injuries, the damage to his car was caused at the place where it was found. Where, under what circumstances and by whom Stoll was run over could not be determined.

After the case became known, several motorists reported a hitchhiker whom they claim to have seen at night at the Hagen-Süd driveway in the direction of Frankfurt. The search for this person was just as unsuccessful as the search for the person who the two truck drivers claim to have seen while driving past the site. Also indications of possible contacts with people from the drug milieu, which Stoll is said to have made during several vacation stays in the Netherlands, did not lead to any decisive findings.

In 2017, the magazine Stern wrote about the case that he remained “one of the most mysterious unexplained deaths in Germany” and that in the future too, since murder is not statute-barred, “will be brought out again and again”.

literature

  • Stefan Ummenhofer, Michael Thaidigsmann: File number XY… unsolved. Crime, controversy, cult. Romäus, Villingen-Schwenningen 2004, ISBN 3-9809278-1-4 , pp. 192-194.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Mysterious death still unexplained Siegener Zeitung from June 1, 2016, accessed on May 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c cf. File number XY ... unsolved , series 176 from April 12, 1985.
  3. ↑ Yogtze - The hot letter trail remains a mystery , accessed on May 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Daniel Wüstenberg: A naked dead person, an enigmatic note, no trace. In: Stern , June 2, 2017.

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