206: The Solved Cold Case Murder of Carmen Kampa | Germany

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Looking out of the train window, a witness saw a large man striking a young woman, then forcing both his hands on her shoulders so she couldn’t get back up. The witness opened the train window and heard the young woman screaming: “Please, don’t! Please don’t!” The train passenger shouted for the attacker to stop, but the train was already moving. By the time police arrived at the scene, there was no trace of the crime. Then, three days later they found Carmen’s body. For years the case that was witnessed by multiple train passengers remained unsolved, but thanks to the determination of a prosecutor and a cold case team – it was solved 40 years later.
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1:02.9	It was an early spring night on the 1st of May 1971, and a young man named Roland Stangle
1:08.7	had recently moved to Bremen. He was making his way home on the 4498 train when he saw a horrific
1:15.2	scene from the window. Close to the train tracks, right on the embankment was a young woman and a
1:22.0	large man tearing over her. The witness instinctively flinched when the man struck the woman down,
1:28.6	then rushed to open the window and yelled out for the man to stop.
1:33.5	This caused a stir in the otherwise quiet train, and many people saw what the commotion was about.
1:39.6	Police were alerted and arrived within minutes, but they couldn't find a young woman or her
1:44.6	attacker anywhere. For days, it was left at that. A bizarre incident with no conclusion.
1:52.9	That is, until the body of 17-year-old Carmen Campa turned up, a couple of meters from where
1:58.3	the witness saw her being murdered. This cold case brought many twists and turns,
2:04.6	but 40 years after the fact, thanks to the dogged determination of a public prosecutor
2:09.4	and two detectives, Carmen's murder was eventually solved.
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