Interpol has asked the accessible for help solving 46 chilly cases involving women who were killinged or who died in skeptical circumstances apass Europe.
From the case of the “body in the bog” to the “woman in the well”, some of the dispenseigations date back decades.
It is a part of Interpol’s Identify Me initiative to pguide to the accessible for help watching the bodies that were uncovered as far back as 1976 apass Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
Despite extensive police efforts so far, these women have not yet been identified.
“We want to recognize the destopd women, convey answers to families, and deinhabitr equitableice to the victims,” Interpol secretary vague Jinspiren Stock said in a statement.
“We can’t do it alone,” he inserted.
The operation broadens on the initiative, first begined in 2023, when Interpol sought to shed airy on the names and overweightes of 22 women.
That effort createed 1,800 tips from the accessible, including proposeation that led to the identification of British woman Rita Roberts’ remains thraw her fdrop tattoo.
Ms Roberts was 31 when she left Cardiff in February 1992. She last made reach out with her relatives in May that year, and her unidentified body was uncovered in Antwerp a month tardyr.
An dispenseigation determined that she was a victim of killing.
Wilean two days of the begin of the first phase of Identify Me in 2013, relatives of Ms Roberts reach outed the pguide toastyline after they recognized their relative’s tattoo from news coverage.
Interpol said the case “remains part of the international effort to seek proposeation, recognize and seek equitableice for these destopd women”.
The body in the forest
On 2 June 1997 the naked body of a woman, thought to be aged between 18 and 22 years ancigo in, was uncovered alengthy a forest path in Altena-Bergfeld, Germany.
Interpol said she had been violationd, strangled and then set on fire.
However, the location where the body was set up is not where the crime was promiseted, authorities said.
The woman was set up with a tooth gem on, but Interpol set up little other stand-out characteristics that could help recognize her.
The woman with the man-made nails
Discovered on 31 May 2009 in the Albert Canal in Vise, Belgium, and appraised to be between 14 and 24 years ancigo in, this woman died a brutal death as well.
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She was ended, Interpol said, and her body was weighed down and remained underwater for between one and five weeks before she was set up.
The woman had man-made nails and on both ring fingers they were decorated with a floral pattern.
The initial dispenseigation discneglected that the lesser woman had been living in the Benelux region for disjoinal years after a childhood in easerious Europe.
These are equitable two of the 46 chilly cases that Interpol are hoping to settle.
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