Elif Cirakoglu is a child who went missing from Köln, Germany on June 8, 1971.
Case[]
Elif left her parents' house the morning of June 8, 1971 to go to school. She took her typical route to school and, as usual, wanted to meet her classmate behind a bridge that crossed railroad tracks. Elif did not arrive there and has since been considered missing.
Elif's school bag
Before Elif, other girls (in May/June of 1969 and 1970) had already been kidnapped and attacked at the bridge. The route to school for all of them led through a lonely street bordered with high walls leading to the bridge. Here, a car (a light-colored Volkswagen Beetle) was conspicuously parked at the corner every time; when the girls, all of them dark-haired like Elif, wanted to cross the railroad bridge on Saturdays (where there was very little activity due to the weekend), they were pulled into the car.
It is suspected that Elif was also pulled into the car at this blind spot.
Clothing and accessories[]
- Yellow short dress.
- Light red wool jacket with zipper.
- White knee socks.
- White sandals with gold lacing.
- Red school bag with handle and 2 metal clasps (included books and notebooks for the third grade).
Sources[]
- Youtube Pt.I (07:00) & Youtube Pt.II (German)
- XY Wiki (German)