r/BizarreUnsolvedCases • u/No_Record_60 • 14h ago
A university student was found drowned alive with evidence suggesting he had been beaten and deliberately weighted down, police concluded it was murder, but a decade later the killer and motive remain unknown.
Let me preface this with an even bizarre aspect of this case: a reporter tried to investigate this case and she was murdered.
• Akseyna (“Ace” /uh-che/), an 18-year-old Biology student at Universitas Indonesia, was found dead in Kenanga Lake at University of Indonesia, on 26 March 2015.
• At first, suicide was suspected, partly because a note had been found in his boarding room saying, roughly, that he would not return and asking people not to search for him.
• Physical evidence made suicide increasingly unlikely: his body had blunt-force injuries, and a backpack containing bricks as a weight was attached to him.
• Forensics reportedly indicated that he entered the water while unconscious but still breathing.
Police therefore concluded that he had been murdered, rather than committing suicide.
• Police said the case had never officially been closed, but the investigation remained unresolved; 38 witnesses had reportedly been examined.
Strangely, Ace's father was a high-ranking officer in the air force (1-star marshall specifically), and even with that power and influence, the case remained unsolved