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Monday, March 27, 2017

A Detective Inspector has managed to piece together a collection of pre-existing scientific data, to uncover new discoveries in the death of a 5000-year-old Iceman.

Ötzi the glacier mummy was preserved since 3300 B.C. inside a glacier along the northern Italian-Austrian border, until his accidental discovery by two hikers in 1991. He is now being conserved in cold storage at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, in Bolzano, Italy where he has been the subject of intensive research.

Detective Inspector Alexander Horn of the Munich Police said,“he’s in better condition than recent homicide victims I’ve worked on who have been found out in the open.” Due to the high humidity of the ice, Ötzi’s organs and skin have remained intact, revealing his stomach contents on the day of his murder. These contents revealed to Inspector Horn that Ötzi had eaten a meal consisting of Ibex meat, einkorn wheat, fats and bracken, approximately 30 minutes prior to his murder.

From traces of pollen found in Ötzi’s digestive tracks, Scientists have placed the date of his death at sometime in late spring or early summer.

Inspector Horn has also found evidence to shed light on the possible motive of Ötzi’s killer. With wounds to his hands, Detective Inspector Horn infers to a prior altercation in his village that led potentially to the later, fatal blow of an arrow in his back.

“The aim of the offender was to kill him, and he decides to take a long-distance shot — could be a learning effect from what happened one or two days before,” Inspector Horn told the New York Times.

Found with a variety of his belongings, including clothing made from animal skins, weapons and a copper axe, Inspector Horn believes the murder of Ötzi was not the result of a robbery.

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