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{{Identified notice}}{{Identified|name = Zakia M.|realname = Zakia M.|sex = {{f}}|found = December 26, 1994|location = Gifhorn, Germany|missing from = Tunisia|identified = June 2020|timespan = 25 years|age = 28|cause of death = {{Stab}}|image = [[File:Gifhorn2.jpg|200px|2012 sketch]]}}{{Graphic}}
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{{Identified notice}}{{Identified|name = Zakia Mansour|realname = Zakia Mansour|sex = {{f}}|found = December 26, 1994|location = Gifhorn, Germany|missing from = Tunisia|identified = June 2020|timespan = 25 years|age = 28|cause of death = {{Stab}}|image = [[File:Gifhorn2.jpg|200px|2012 sketch]]}}{{Graphic}}
   
'''Zakia M, '''was a Tunisian woman found stabbed in December 1994 in Germany. She was found to have drowned in her own blood.
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'''Zakia Mansour, '''was a Tunisian woman found stabbed in December 1994 in Germany. She was found to have drowned in her own blood.
   
 
She was identified in June 2020.
 
She was identified in June 2020.
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Zakia was found lying in a water hole, on an agricultural road in Gifhorn, Germany. She had been stabbed to death and had drowned in her own blood.
 
Zakia was found lying in a water hole, on an agricultural road in Gifhorn, Germany. She had been stabbed to death and had drowned in her own blood.
   
With the help of Hanover Medical School, German authorities conducted an ancestry DNA test on the body and they were positively identified as 28 year old Zakia M, missing from the North African country, Tunisia. At this time, her surname has not been released.
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With the help of Hanover Medical School, German authorities conducted an ancestry DNA test on the body and they were positively identified as 28 year old Zakia Mansour, missing from the North African country, Tunisia. At this time, her surname has not been released.
   
 
Zakia hadn't been reported missing until 2019. Zakia's son's wife filed the report, and Gifhorn police became certain that the victim was Zakia. However, identification was delayed until DNA from Zakia's relative's could be obtained.
 
Zakia hadn't been reported missing until 2019. Zakia's son's wife filed the report, and Gifhorn police became certain that the victim was Zakia. However, identification was delayed until DNA from Zakia's relative's could be obtained.
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*[http://germanmissing.blogspot.com/2015_09_03_archive.html Missing persons blog (German)]
 
*[http://germanmissing.blogspot.com/2015_09_03_archive.html Missing persons blog (German)]
*Gifhorner Rundschau[https://www.gifhorner-rundschau.de/gifhorn/article229222892/Tote-im-Kreis-Gifhorn-nach-25-Jahren-identifiziert-es-ist-Zakia-M.html]
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*Gifhorner Rundschau[https://www.gifhorner-rundschau.de/gifhorn/article229222892/Tote-im-Kreis-Gifhorn-nach-25-Jahren-identifiziert-es-ist-Zakia-M.html] (German)
 
[[Category:1994 deaths]]
 
[[Category:1994 deaths]]
 
[[Category:1994 discoveries]]
 
[[Category:1994 discoveries]]

Revision as of 19:02, 25 July 2020

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Zakia Mansour
2012 sketch
Name Zakia Mansour
Sex Female
Found December 26, 1994
Location Gifhorn, Germany
Missing from Tunisia
Identified June 2020
Span 25 years
Age 28
Cause of death Stabbing

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Zakia Mansour, was a Tunisian woman found stabbed in December 1994 in Germany. She was found to have drowned in her own blood.

She was identified in June 2020.

Case

Zakia was found lying in a water hole, on an agricultural road in Gifhorn, Germany. She had been stabbed to death and had drowned in her own blood.

With the help of Hanover Medical School, German authorities conducted an ancestry DNA test on the body and they were positively identified as 28 year old Zakia Mansour, missing from the North African country, Tunisia. At this time, her surname has not been released.

Zakia hadn't been reported missing until 2019. Zakia's son's wife filed the report, and Gifhorn police became certain that the victim was Zakia. However, identification was delayed until DNA from Zakia's relative's could be obtained.

Little is known about Zakia and her disappearance, other than she took a plane to Hanover, Germany on December 13, 1994. She had met up with a currently unidentified female, who is believed to have information that would help solve Zakia's murder. The woman may have been from the Wolfsburg area. Zakia had been staying in Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, and knew multiple people in that and the Wolfsburg area. Zakia had been seen at a resturant in the Braunschweig area, and is believed to have died on December 23 or 24.

Police are asking Zakia's friends in the area she was seen in to come forward.

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Original reconstruction, heavily dependent on morgue photo

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