Cold Angel: Murder in Berlin 1949 by Horst Bosetzky

Author:Horst Bosetzky [Bosetzky, Horst]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781936274338
Publisher: Enigma Books
Published: 2012-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

25.

Bernhard Bacheran was sitting at his desk waiting for the work day to end. The State Attorney’s administrative offices on Fehrbelliner Strasse were quiet. Many of his colleagues, men and women had been given two days’ vacation between the New Year and the following weekend or had called in sick. The first Thursday of the year was dark, light broke out rarely in the gloom and the rest of the time a light snow drizzled down. The temperature was just below zero Celsius and even at night it was not terribly cold. That was a good thing because even though this was the first winter after the blockade wood and coal remained in short supply. Bacheran was bored. He reopened the folder where he kept all the material regarding the Seidelmann case. The search for the perpetrator was going nowhere. Three weeks before, on December 16, they had hoped to nail the murderer but they had not come any closer to doing so: not with the money changer Rudolf Doberschütz nor with beautiful Dorothea Stetzsch, ‘Thea The Whip’. Thanks to their attorneys, both had been able to celebrate Christmas at home.

Bernhard closed the folder. Reading the file a third time would not give him any new insights. So he decided to go to the toilet. Sitting inside, he noticed there was no toilet paper. Instead there was a Telegraf on the dispenser. Bacheran read the date: January 5, 1950. Today’s paper. Even though the temperature was barely above 10 degrees Celsius, he sat there a while. He loved reading the paper in the toilet, a habit he must have inherited from his father. “He never could hide his proletarian origins.” Oh well… Bacheran browsed the headlines: Conny Rux run-in... What was that about? The famous boxing champion had been riding in car that rammed into the police Superintendent’s car on Sonnenallee, corner of Erkstrasse in Neukölln. She jumps from the fifth floor... 35 year old widow, Karoline K. from Wilmersdorf, jumped from the fifth floor window of the building where she lived, at 7, Jenau Strasse, in an attempt at suicide. Opium dealers at the exchange booth... 37 year old amputee Paul L. from Ölsnitz in Voigtland had been apprehended as he attempted to sell 25 grams of opium at the corner of Schlossstrasse and Schildhornstrasse: he said the opium came from old Wehrmacht supplies. Corpse found in ruins of a house... Bacheran started, he could not believe his eyes. He carefully read every word: Yesterday afternoon, children playing in the rubble at the corner of Memhardstrasse and Prenzlauerstrasse uncovered parts of a corpse, that of a woman between the ages of 35 and 40. The limbs and the head were separated from the trunk which was itself wrapped in underwear. The investigation showed that the body parts had been brought to the location separately. The crime itself had been committed eight to ten days ago. The Eastern sector police posted a missing persons inquiry: the woman is 1m60 to 1m 65 tall, strong, brown eyes, hair dyed a reddish brown.

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