After 30 years: Missing Viersener staged his own death!

After 30 years: Missing Viersener staged his own death!

A moving cold case that remained unsolved for over three decades has now been solved by the Mönchengladbach police. How welleniederrhein.de reports, the case of Boris C. from Viersen, who has been missing since 1994, shows that everything is not always as it seems. It turns out that Boris C. had staged his own death to escape his debts and is now alive and well in France.

On September 13, 1994, the then 29-year-old Croatian disappeared without a trace. His car was discovered some time later in Düsseldorf, with traces of blood found in the vehicle. The circumstances at the time suggested a violent crime. The police set up a murder squad, but the investigation remained fruitless for years. In 1997, Boris C. was finally declared dead at the request of his family. This sad step was necessary because it was assumed that it was a homicide and there was no trace of the missing person rp-online.de described in detail.

A plan with dramatic consequences

Over the years, the cold case has been reopened again and again. The modern criminal investigation, which was finally carried out last year, brought the decisive breakthrough: the blood stains in the car actually came from Boris C. himself, which supported his legend of faking his death. He had left his family behind and built a new life in France, far from his debts and the spiral of despair in which he found himself.

The cold case department, which was launched in 2021 and consists of former police officers, was tasked with systematically investigating unsolved murders and homicides from the last 50 years. By March 2023, they had successfully resolved 14 cases. A remarkable success, although not every case like Boris C.'s turned out this way. criminintuition.de shows that 200 to 300 people are reported missing in Germany every year, but only 96 to 97% of these cases are solved.

A lesson in missing person searches

However, there are still around 2 to 3% of cases that remain unsolved for more than a year, many of them forever. Today's investigators use innovative approaches to discover new leads. The team with over 20 years of experience shows that there are ways to handle even the most hopeless missing person cases. Contrary to the popular belief that any punishment follows quickly, it is often a long road to the truth.

For Boris C., this path has now taken shape in an unexpected way: he continued to live in secret and created a new identity for himself. At 30 years old after his disappearance, he is faced with the challenge of living with the consequences of his drastic step. While the Mönchengladbach police were able to close one case, the question remains as to how many more stories there are behind the unsolved missing person cases.