WHO IS BEHIND ADAM? [Archives:2000/24/Front Page]

The case of the serial murderer, Adam is still the event of the hour among the people. People believe it may be one of the most complicated ever experienced in Yemen. New developments show that motivations of the crimes might go beyond sex or prostitution. Some speculations indicate that the crimes are linked to clandestine networks trading with human body parts.
Reports of the forensic medicine specialists indicated that the number of victims was more than two; Zainab and Hossn. The reports added that a body with the same characteristics matching with those of Yasmeen, who is believed to be one of the victims, was recovered. The court decided to add two German experts to the board of investigators along with two officials from the Criminal Investigation and the Intelligence. Some professors who were members of the board of investigators have been suspended after the serial murderer Mohammed Adam Omar Isaac confessed that they were among his accomplices. The German experts are, Wolfgang Bach, Professor of Forensic Medicine at Dsseldorf University and his assistant Professor Kal who are helping in the investigations at the request of the court. The court accepted a request by the defendant lawyer Dr. Mohammed Al-Khateeb to meet his client. Advocate, Al-Baghdadi described what happened between “Nada”, one of the reported victims who has recently appeared, embracing her sister warmly inside the court- room as a farce scene. Advocate Al-Deilami said that he would prove that the story of “Nada” was a mere fabrication. DR. Al-Khateeb expected that the case would take a different trend. Below is the report of the technical team assigned by the parliament to inspect the morgue.
The court adjourned Saturday’s sitting to Wednesday to listen to reports of the technical team. The German experts met yesterday with Minister of Interior and discussed how they would help in this regard.
Students’ advocate, Al-Adeemi demanded interrogation of Sanaa university rector as a party in the case. Yemen’s interior minister Hussein Mohammed Arab refuted the killer’s claims of killing 16 girls, some were students at t he faculty of medicine and others from outside the university.
Mr. Arab told the 26 September newspaper that Adam must have had accomplices who helped him commit his crimes inside t he faculty. The interior minister confirmed that information given by the murderer on crimes he had committed outside Yemen was baseless. Investigations and cooperation with Suddenness Interior Ministry proved that Adam had not been to any country other than Yemen. He concluded that since 1993, 59 girl students have left their study at the medicine faculty and all of them are found to be leading their normal life except 9 of them. More Details on Reports Page.

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