College student ‘murdered’ in 1984 found living in Germany

It emerged that she had lived in several cities in West Germany without a passport, a driver’s licence or a social security card.

The 55-year-old woman told the officers that the name on the house door wasn’t hers and she revealed that she was actually the student from Braunschweig who had gone missing 31 years ago.

For the last 31 years, everyone thought Petra Pazsitka had been murdered.

All those years she had never been asked to present any identity documents, the woman claimed, although she said she had been working.

Pazsitka’s plot emerged when she was found living under a false name in Dusseldorf two weeks ago by police investigating a burglary. In 1985 police arrested a man, a 19 year-old carpenter’s apprentice known only as Gunter K, who subsequently confessed that he had killed a 14 year-old girl near the bus stop where Pazsitka was supposed to be travelling from.

Despite widespread manhunts, her body was never found and she was declared dead in 1989.

It is understood she left her student flat in Braunschweig and went to the shop and the dentist.

‘Her brother and mother were in shock and tears when they heard the news, ‘ Grande said.

Mystery surrounds Petra Pazsitka, who disappeared in 1984 and has now come forward.

“She did not even have a bank account and paid all her bills cash”, Grande said, adding that Pazsitka appeared to have been making a small income through illicit work.

The young woman deliberately did not take a suitcase on the day she disappeared to make it look as if something had happened to her.

But Pazsitka won’t say what prompted her disappearance three decades ago, only telling police she wants nothing to do with her family-though she denies that any problems with them were behind her vanishing act-or the public.

Prosecutors do not consider Miss Pazsitka to have committed a criminal offence, it is reported. Although the police are not treating her disappearance as a crime, Pazsitka will now be required to register formally with the German authorities.

Miss Pazsitka’s relatives have asked police to deliver a letter to their newly-discovered loved one.