Influencer Hits For Twin Lookalike On Instagram & Brutally Kills Her - But She Won't Say Why

TL;DR

German woman Sherry recruited lookalike Cada via fake Instagram DMs, then had her stabbed 56 times to fake her own death and escape her strict family.

Key Points

• 1.Sherry sent 26 Instagram DMs to women who vaguely resembled her. All targets were early-20s women with long dark hair, olive skin, brown eyes, and heights between 5'2"–5'4", recruited under fake pretenses like music video casting or free laser hair removal.
• 2.Cada was lured with a fake laser hair removal collaboration at Rowan's barber shop. When Cada verified the music video offer with the actual artist Lon (1M+ Spotify fans), Lon replied 'Fake sister, don't go' — but Cada was later fooled by a second account offering salon services.
• 3.On August 17, 2022, Sherry and accomplice Shakir picked up Cada and murdered her in a forest. Sherry pretended to be lost, asked Cada to exit the car to read a road sign, then Shakir stabbed her; they drove back and parked the body in Sherry's Mercedes on a residential street.
• 4.Cada was stabbed so violently in the face, neck, and chest that paramedics couldn't seal a breathing mask over her wounds. She was found in Sherry's car by Sherry's own parents, who assumed the body was their daughter.
• 5.The prosecutor's 'doppelganger theory' holds that Sherry wanted to fake her death to escape her strict Yazidi parents. After her divorce, her father restricted her to leaving the house only 20 minutes per day and placed a GPS tracker in her car.
• 6.Sherry's ex-husband Rowan was initially suspected by the entire town, accused via Facebook mob. He was interrogated for 4.5 hours before police confirmed Sherry was alive on CCTV footage, shifting her from presumed victim to prime suspect.
• 7.Sherry had a documented history of extreme violence toward Rowan and his family. Incidents included tasing her brother-in-law in the neck (convicted 2018), attempting to run Rowan over with her car (October 2021), and slamming his face into a mirror causing him to lose 30% of his right eye's vision.
• 8.Sherry's motive for Shakir's participation was reportedly a promise of a romantic relationship. Weeks before the murder, she visited bars asking men 'Would you kill for me?' — prosecutors argue Shakir, who met her shortly before, agreed in exchange for a relationship.
• 9.Sherry's defense attorneys argued she was too intellectually limited to plan the murder. Her IQ tested at 86, just above Germany's 85 threshold for learning disability classification; psychiatrists found her impulsive, manipulative, and conflict-prone but mentally fit for trial.
• 10.The trial became one of the longest criminal proceedings in recent German regional history, with over 100 witnesses. Sherry consistently lied on the stand while Shakir stayed completely silent, leaving the true motive officially unexplained.