Overview
- ZDF will air the case on Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 20:15, marking its first nationwide TV presentation.
- Markus Weber, head of Cologne’s Cold Cases unit, is set to appear in the studio with host Rudi Cerne to outline the appeal.
- Seckin Caglar, 16, vanished in October 1991 after leaving her workplace, and her body was found near the Poll-Autobahn tram stop; she had been sexually abused and strangled.
- In 2023 police relaunched the investigation with a mass DNA test, requesting saliva samples from several hundred men connected to Cologne-Poll, but no match emerged.
- Authorities describe the killing as likely spontaneous and highlight prior poster and flyer campaigns, including on Seckin’s tram route, as her family continues to live with uncertainty.