“The aim of the offender was to kill him, and he decides to take a long-distance shot — could

“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 said.
Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case -
By ROD NORDLANDMARCH 26, 2017
BOLZANO, Italy — When the head of a small Italian museum called Detective Inspector
Alexander Horn of the Munich Police, she asked him if he investigated cold cases.
“It was a very active defensive wound, and interesting in the context
that no other injuries are found on the body, no major bruises or stab wounds, so probably he was the winner of that fight, even possibly he killed the person who tried to attack him,” he said.
Often called the Iceman, he is the world’s most perfectly preserved mummy, a Copper Age fellow who had been frozen inside a glacier along
the northern Italian border with Austria until warming global temperatures melted the ice and two hikers discovered him in 1991.
“In a lot of cases we are not able to do that even now.”
Those contents, as it turned out, were critical in determining with surprising precision what happened to Ötzi
and even helped shed light on the possible motive of his killer.
“You go back to your village with this unusual ax, it would be pretty obvious what had happened.”
Ötzi’s cold case continues to yield surprises to scientists in many disciplines who still are studying his remains.