At around four-thirty a.m. on the morning of April 4th, 1997, police in the area received a report of a serious car crash in the region of Wetterau, Germany; evidently, a black BMW had careened off a country road and slammed into a tree. When authorities arrived at the scene, they found a man dead behind the wheel, his injuries seemingly consistent with a one-car wreck.
The man, forty-five-year-old Adem Bozkurt, was originally from Turkey, but had lived in the town of Bad Nauheim, in the western German state of Hesse, for some time. After his death, his remains were shipped back to his hometown of Izmir for burial.
However, in 2014, a witness came forward and claimed that the accident which had killed Adem was no accident at all, but had been staged to appear as such. This individual apparently had enough evidence of this to convince investigators to travel to Turkey and have the victim’s remains exhumed, at which point they discovered that Adem had indeed been shot in the neck prior to the crash.
Though police were criticized for not initially recognizing the crime as a murder, officers defended themselves by pointing out that the firearm used in the crime was of a very small caliber, and that the bullet hole was only a millimeter across and hidden beneath the victim’s hair. At the time of the crash, they noted, there was absolutely no reason to believe that the driver had not simply died as a result of the impact with the tree.
As the inquiry continued, leads began to surface suggesting that Adem Bozkurt might have been targeted as the result of a business rivalry, and in 2016, the homes of three suspects were searched in conjunction with the homicide investigation. However, no charges were laid at the time, and the mysterious case remains very much up in the air, though there is currently a reward of ten-thousand Euros on offer for information leading to the conviction of the killer or killers.
Crime Immemorial 