5300 Year Old Murder

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>>2933027

Angelika Fleckinger, director of the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, where Oetzi's body is on display, called on a professional to investigate. He is Detective Chief Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police Department, who is also head of behavioural analysis with the Bavarian police.
He admits to being slightly taken aback at the request.

"It was a funny situation, because when I was asked by the director if I work on cold cases, I said 'yes, I do'," Inspector Horn said.

But this case was colder than most.

"The usual cold case that we have is 20 or maybe 30 years old, and now I was asked to work on a case 5,300 years old," he said.

Initially, Inspector Horn did not think he could help.

"I thought that probably the body would be in a bad condition. But what I learnt very soon was that it was in perfect condition. It's even in a better condition than some of the bodies I am working on nowadays."

As well as visiting the scene of the crime high in the Alps, the inspector was able to draw on the extensive research done on Oetzi over the last 25 years, which includes detailed analysis of his stomach contents and the injuries on his body.

Both were to prove key to Inspector Horn's theories.

"It looks a lot like a murder," he says.

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>>2933033

Apparent ambush

The killer seems to have caught Oetzi by surprise.

"Oetzi was shot probably from quite a distance, about 30m (100 ft), which is not a close-contact killing; it's a distance killing."

Inspector Horn says Oetzi seems to have been quite relaxed up on the glacier just before he was shot. His own bow wasn't ready for use.

"About half an hour before he was killed, he was having a rest up there. He was having quite a heavy lunch or meal at least, so it doesn't seem like he was in a rush or fleeing from something."
Another crucial clue came from the injury on Oetzi's right hand - a wound he received one or two days before his death, probably during a fight.

"That injury was something we would define as a classic active defence wound. That would be like if somebody... threatens you with an knife and he stabs you, if you grab into the knife and... try to push it away."

Oetzi did not suffer other defence injuries, so Inspector Horn believes he won the initial fight - which possibly took place down in the valley.

"What we think… is that the killing up on the glacier is probably the continuation of this fight that happened about one-and-a-half days before."

Knowing that he was unlikely to win in hand-to-hand combat, Oetzi's killer probably stealthily followed him up the mountain and shot him.

The glacier "is a very remote area and probably not a place where you would randomly run into each other", Alexander Horn says.

But who was the offender and what were his motives?

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>>2933037

'He got away with murder'

Inspector Horn says the offender didn't steal Oetzi's valuable copper blade axe and other gear, so it is unlikely to have been a crime for profit. He speculates that it was probably due to "some strong personal emotion".

"If there was hate, if it was jealousy, if it was revenge, we will not be able to tell you."

Angelika Fleckinger from the Museum of Archaeology says she is very happy so much progress has been made into the big mystery of Oetzi's death.

But Inspector Horn says he is still unsatisfied.

"I don't think there is a high likelihood we will ever be able to solve that case."

The offender "got away with that murder - which I don't like, being in charge of investigations," he said with a wry smile.

"I don't like the fact that we have an unsolved homicide there."

FIN

Super interesting, thanks OP.

We require justice for Oetzi the iceman!

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>>2933037
>Knowing that he was unlikely to win in hand-to-hand combat, Oetzi's killer probably stealthily followed him up the mountain and shot him.

>>2933027
>Oetzi the Iceman was shot in the back with an arrow.
He was a good boy, he was going to the local hill shrine, getting his life together. He don't deserve this. JUSTICE FOR OETZI!

Imagine walking around Europe with zero niggers and Muslims. Must have been paradise.

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>>2933927

Imagine the untouched primal forests of Europe, where lions and aurochs frolicked.

And while we already know the ending, I’d like to see a movie based on Oetzi, an historically accurate stone age thriller / mystery made by Mel Gibson.

>>2933962
Why is she wearing make-up and why is her hair and skin highly conditioned?

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>>2933027
He had a lot of them

>>2934039
s-shut up

>>2934214
Holy shit, plebs are way older than I thought.

>>2933027
Are they sure he did not fall on one of his own arrows? I assume the arrowhead in his back did not match the ones in his quiver but is that stated anywhere? Falling on one's own arrow is a common hazard for even modern archers. I know one who did so first hand, and have heard of two others second hand. see also the fine documentary 'Deliverance'.