About fifty women killed and found throughout Europe have been nameless for years. More or less preserved remains, found in various countries, which remain without a face. But behind those bones and those shreds of flesh there are lives, families, affections, roots. Now, Interpol launches an international appeal to try to resolve this all-female Spoon River.
The initiative, initially proposed by six European countries, is called “Identify Me”. The aim is to solve 46 unsolved cases involving unidentified women whose remains were found years ago across Europe. Most of the women were killed or died in suspicious or unexplained circumstances. These are all unsolved cases, murders without reason, on which no light has ever been shed. Some date back decades. The mortal remains of the women to whom we are trying to give a name are also found in Italy, as well as in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, France and Spain. The appeal highlights the importance of public involvement and international cooperation in resolving unsolved cases. It offers the hope of obtaining crucial clues so that the majority of these women can be identified and justice can be done. These people will never return home, but their family members will be able to have a grave to cry on, they will finally be able to breathe again, after years of uncertainty and vain searches, they will be able to have some peace.
The initiative is based on the success of first “Identify Me” appeal, launched in May 2023 to identify 22 women found dead, which received around 1,800 reports from the public. On that occasion, a case that had remained a mystery for 31 years was solved in just a few days. The relatives of a woman, Rita Roberts, living in the United Kingdom, recognized a tattoo of their relative, who had left Cardiff in Wales in February 1992 and had stopped contact with relatives in May. They recognized her precisely from a small tattoo and thus gave a name to the body which was found in Antwerp in 1992 and which, as of 2023, was still unknown. The woman had been the victim of a murder.
On Interpol’s Identify me website you can view photos or drawings of the faces of missing women and you can also get some clues to understand who they might be. The invitation extended by Interpol is obviously to all people who have a family member or friend who has been missing for years and who have no idea where he or she may have ended up. We will try to give these women a name, to understand who they are and to return them to their loved ones. In Italy, the bodies referred to were found in Genoa, near Prato, between Mantua and Ferrara and not far from Como.
Each case allows you to consult a file, with details on the discovery, on the body, such as tattoos or distinctive signs, jewellery, clothes: in short, everything that the police have taken into consideration up to now but without obtaining results.
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