Police investigators managed to unravel mysterious murder that was committed nearly 20 years ago. Investigators at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Cold Cases team uncovered the circumstances of an unknown murder committed in 2004, when the body of an unidentified person who had reportedly been killed was found inside a black bag in an empty land in Al-Arda area in Al-Balqa governorate, northwest of Amman. The Public Security Department (PSD) spokesperson said the investigators reopened the case after obtaining new evidence and information that might lead to identifying the identity of the victim and the perpetrator. Information led the investigators to reveal the victim’s name, and in order to confirm the identity of the dead man, biological tests were conducted for relatives of his at the Department of Laboratories and Forensic Evidence, which ultimately confirmed his identity, the PSD spokesperson explained. Based on that, police arrested people close to the victim and some of his friends, and they were interrogated. Then, they said that a friend of the victim had killed him inside his house north of Amman, after a mutual dispute. And that he, with the help of another person, moved the body in his car and dumped it in an uninhabited area, the PSD spokesperson added. Police found out that the killer are residing outside the Kingdom, and issued an international warrant for his arrest. The PSD spokesperson noted that the case were referred to the Public Prosecutor of the Grand Criminal Court and initiated the investigation, decided to initiate the arrest warrant isssuance procedures, brought the main suspect and detained another suspect for 15 days on charges of interference and incitement to murder.

Source: Jordan News Agency