“Who was the assassin? What dispute did they have with Ötzi, and how did they benefit from his bloody end?”
MUMMIFIED IN ICE for 5000 years, the skeletal remains of Ötzi – warped and sinewy, with desiccated eyes and a macabre grimace – rise morbidly to the surface, like a resurrection of the undead. It sounds more like a scene from a zombie movie than real life, but this is exactly what unsuspecting hikers Erika and Helmut Simon encountered on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991.
The German couple were hiking at 3210m in the Tyrolean Alps, close to the Tisenjoch pass and Fineilspitze peak (3514m), when they stumbled across what must have been a petrifying sight: the head and shoulders of a mummified human piercing out of the ice. The corpse was so well-preserved
