Influencer Hunts For Twin Lookalike On Instagram & Brutally Kills Her - But She Won't Say Why

A man driving past a pizzeria in Nuremberg, Germany, spots a long-haired woman who matches descriptions of a murder victim found stabbed 56 times in a Mercedes the day before. He slams on the brakes, asks her, "Are you dead?" She replies uncertainly and flees. This sighting unravels what locals first believed was Sherry Ben Kay's body in her own car, leading to a case dubbed the "Doppelganger Murder."

The Body in the Car

Sherry's parents, searching for her after she visited ex-husband Rowan, found a woman's body splayed in the back seat of her tinted Mercedes E-Class coupe, parked on a residential street midway to Rowan's house. The victim was covered in a jacket, drenched in blood from stab wounds to her chest, neck, and face—described by a paramedic as so destroyed that a breathing mask wouldn't seal. Neighbors helped smash windows amid chaos; Sherry's father immediately blamed Rowan. The town piled on via Facebook, tagging him as the killer. Rowan, a young, groomed Yazidi man who voluntarily entered interrogation, described emotional turmoil from accusations but denied involvement. Four hours in, police revealed Sherry was alive—CCTV showed her post-"death"—and the body belonged to 23-year-old Khadija, lured via Instagram.