After identifying the victim, the case remained under investigation for years without ever reaching the killer.
Media spokesman for the Public Security Directorate, Amer Al-Sartawi, told MEE "Sky News Arabia"The investigation teams of unknown cases at the Criminal Investigation Department reopened the file and were able to find out the circumstances and arrest one of the perpetrators.
With the recent efforts of the investigation team to reopen the case, gather information about it and listen to the statements of some people close to them, the investigators have come to some conclusions, including:
• The victim’s brother participated in the murder after forcing her to drink a large amount of alcohol narcotic pills.
• One of them was arrested and the other was circulated to be out of the country.
Al-Sartawi confirmed this "Expanding the investigation with his brother arrested, he admitted his participation with his brother in the crime of 20 years ago, following personal quarrels.".
He said that he and his brother took the victim out of the house and forced her to take a large amount of narcotic pills until she died, after which they tied her in chains and put her body in an iron barrel on a ferry in the Sweileh area.
Al-Sartawi continued: "The other brother was circulated after it became clear that he was out of the country, while the Prosecutor of the Grand Criminal Court was informed of the case and referred it to him.".
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In details of the crime that shook Jordan at the time, the body of an unknown woman in her 30s was found inside an iron barrel tied in chains, aboard a water ferry in northern Sweileh. Amman.
After identifying the victim, the case remained under investigation for years without ever reaching the killer.
Public Security Directorate media spokesman Amer Al-Sartawi told Sky News Arabia that investigation teams in unknown cases at the Criminal Investigation Department reopened the file and were able to reveal the circumstances and arrest one of the authors.
With the recent efforts of the investigation team to reopen the case, gather information about it and listen to the statements of some people close to them, the investigators have come to some conclusions, including:
• The victim’s brother participated in the murder after forcing her to drink a large amount of alcohol narcotic pills.
• One of them was arrested and the other was circulated to be out of the country.
Al-Sartawi confirmed that, “expanding the investigation with his arrested brother, he admitted his participation with his brother in the crime of 20 years ago, due to personal differences”.
He said that he and his brother took the victim out of the house and forced her to take a large amount of narcotic pills until she died, after which they tied her in chains and put her body in an iron barrel on a ferry in the Sweileh area.
Al-Sartawi continued, “The other brother was circulated after it became clear he was out of the country, while the Grand Criminal Court Prosecutor was informed of the case and referred it to him.”
