German Police is looking for the murdered Cosplayer of the Rhine
OG POST FROM THE 1ST OF JULY. Update July 3rd, 8:26 German standard time The myanimelist account is a different person and does not want to be associated with this case.
Update. I will not encourage or discourage discussion on this post, however, if you harass the remaining partner, who is a minor and probably suicidal, you need to stop and check yourself. I do not support that kind of behavior. If you wanna continue to help, find the very obvious missing persons case from Poland, find the 16yos parents and message them that their minor daughter is in Germany. Harassing a deeply mentally unwell 16 yo is not the right call and never will be. I won't be joining discussions like that.
Update July 2nd, nearly 4h after the first update: The police took down the manhunt. They have probably found her or given it over to Poland police. If someone sees polish police post about this, let me know.
Update July 2nd, 3 hours after the first update: We have found a twitter and myanimelist account for the person from tiktok. They seem to be from Poland and not from Germany. Their partner speaks German tho. They seemingly posted about double suicide on their Twitter. I did not know that beforehand. This post is about a potential murder case, but it seems more like suicide. I cannot change the title anymore.
Update July 2nd, one hour after the first update: Update, a person on tiktok has been found. Police has been informed of the Homurica account on tiktok. Loved ones are in shock. We don't fully know it's them but the tattoos are a very close match and visible in the videos.
UPDATE, 2ND OF JULY: THE POPULAR PHOTO FROM SOCIAL MEDIA WITH A FULL BODY SHOWING A PERSON COSPLAYING HOMURA IN THE HALL OF DOKOMI IS NOT THE MISSING DEAD COSPLAYER FROM THE RHINE. THIS PERSON HAS RESPONDED PERSONALLY AND IS PROVEN TO BE ALIVE. NOTHING IS CONFIRMED BY POLICE YET. ESPECIALLY NOT THAT PIC SINCE THIS PERSON IS PROVEN TO BE ALIVE.
Case Details:
German Police (North Rhine Westfalia/Nordrhein-Westfalen) published a webpage report, where they stated they need help solving a case. Every year, Germany hosts one of Europe's biggest conventions, the Dokomi in Düsseldorf, and right after this convention, two days later, a body was found washed ashore in Cologne, wearing a cosplay. The river Rhine (Rhein) connects Düsseldorf and Cologne (Köln), where the police found the body.
They put the webpage online on the 30th of June (a day ago, I am posting this on July 1st), and ask for help from the public. The body of the deceased cosplayer washed ashore at the 2nd of June and was retrieved by firefighters.
Stats of the victim, according to police:
- gender: biologically male, but presenting female (painted nails, wearing a skirt and long hair)
- Age: Between 20 - 30 years old (assumed)
- Place of retrieval: Rheinkilometer 694
- Height: 180 cm
- hair color: brown
- eye color: brown
- weight: slim
- attributes: female appearance, with long hair, skirt and painted nails, red earring and silver ring
- clothing: two jackets, one beige, one black. Shirt with a manga character on it. short skirt with a white belt and black leggings.
My input, research and additional details (subjective):
- Character that was potentially cosplayed: Homura Akemi - Madoka Magica
- Definitely a cosplayer outfit, but missing a wig (probably was washed away in the Rhine)
- Huge Bruises in the face, from several hits to the face before being dumped in the water
- cause of death is unclear until now, police has no additional info but the stuff I put above and the pictures in the case link
- thinly shaved eyebrows
- piercing on the lower lip, embedded in the lip
- close-up of the face shows a heart shaped face tattoo
- there is a white shoe in the picture of the face provided in the link below, could potentially be the shoe the person wore
- person had more than 3 black lined tattoos with no color, showing resemblance to anime and cartoon adjacent media. One of them is clearly Alastor from Hazbin Hotel.
- tattoos covered one of the arms show to have self-harm scars. Pictures of the tattoos are included in the report below
- race: White, Skin color: White
- many people come to dokomi from neighboring countries and there are also posts in both German and English going around on all socials right now. If you know the person shown in the report below, contact police in Cologne. Even if you are not from Germany, this could be your classmate or friend, or child. After a month, no one has reported this person missing or contacted police. This is very uncommon, since people who don't return home should usually be missed and police should be contacted when your loved one is missing.
- there is currently a post going around from a user from a Facebook group. They claim police has already established who this is, but no, I have called police this morning personally, and they told me they have not yet identified this person. It could be someone not from Germany who visited internationally.
- i also asked police to provide a full body picture but they told me they couldn't do that because since the photos were taken on the beginning of June, the corpse has changed too much (decaying process, I assume).
All Links and sources:
TW the pictures in this manhunt from NRW Police are graphic!!