Germany Anja Beggers, 16, Bremerhaven, Germany, October 7, 1977

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Name: Anja Beggers
Case Classification: Endangered Missing
Missing Since: October 7, 1977
Location Last Seen: Bremerhaven, Germany

Physical Description​

Date of Birth: May 4, 1961
Age: 16 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 174 cm. (5'9")
Weight: Unknown
Hair Color: Dark brown to black, straight
Eye Color: Blue gray
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Medium build.

Identifiers​

Dentals: Unknown
Fingerprints: Unknown
DNA: Unknown

Clothing & Personal Items​

Clothing: Unknown
Jewelry: Unknown
Additional Personal Items: Unknown

Circumstances of Disappearance​

Anja lived with her parents on a farm in Midlum.

On the day she disappeared, Anja did not feel well and wanted to stay at home to cure her headache.

Later, a friend of Anja wanted to pick her up for a visit to a disco. With him she left her parents' house around 9 p.m. and went off with him.

Her friend, who left the disco for a short time, did not find Anja when he returned. Since then she has been missing.

Her disappearance is linked to other missing persons cases in the north of Germany:

Angelika Kielmann, 1978
Anke Streckenbach, 1979
Iris Schwarz, 1980
Andrea Martens, 1980
Christina Bohle, 1982
Uta Flemming, 1985
Jutta Schneefuß, 1986

It is believed that she was possibly a victime of the “Göhrde murderer” Kurt-Werner Wichmann, convicted of five murders that happened during 1989. He died in jail in 1993.

Anja's mother never stopped looking for her daughter.

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Anja Beggers
Wurde Inges Tochter Anja ermordet? Und war es "Tötungsmaschine" Kurt-Werner?

 

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The Case of Anja Beggers

The television programme Aktenzeichen XY of 7 December 1979 revealed that the unknown person had called her mother several times and claimed that Anja was still alive. Once even that she was living in Berlin and had a child, as the gazettes of the day reported.

In March 1978, a strange piece of paper with supposed calls for help from an Anja was discovered by a boy from Lüneburg in a paper towel box at a motorway service station in Hamburg-Stillhorn. This is how the identity card turned up in a Munich sex shop a few years later when a group of teenagers is checked by a saleswoman. Today, Beggers would be 61 years old.

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For a long time, it was probably assumed that some of the girls had fallen victim to a murderer who sought his victims in the discotheques in the 1970s.

This is contradicted by the fact that Beggers' identity card turned up again. Also, the girls were thought to be involved in the drug scene at the time because discos were frowned upon. Rumours that Anja Beggers had been in the former Colonia Dignidad in Chile and had fallen into the hands of a cult at that time can neither be verified nor do they seem to be true.

Rumours also arose that Beggers had fallen into the hands of Göhrde's murderer and his suspected accomplice.