A girl discovered useless in Spain 20 years in the past has been recognized after a world marketing campaign to resolve chilly instances.
In 2023, Interpol launched the “Identify Me” marketing campaign, which seeks to call ladies who have been murdered or died underneath suspicious circumstances in Europe in latest many years. Particulars from instances examined underneath the initiative are extensively shared on-line and within the media. Interpol points pictures of facial reconstructions, private belongings and tattoos. It additionally shares biometric information from the preliminary investigations with its 196 member international locations and asks regulation enforcement to run that information by way of nationwide databases.
Police in Spain submitted “the woman in pink” case to the initiative in 2024. This yr, police in Turkey ran the lady’s fingerprints by way of a biometric database and decided that the prints matched these of Liudmila Zavada, a Russian nationwide.
Liudmila Zavada.
Interpol
One among Zavada’s shut kin supplied a DNA pattern that was in comparison with the pattern investigators had from the preliminary investigation. The samples matched, permitting officers to substantiate that the lady was Zavada. She was 31 on the time of her dying.
There are 44 ladies left within the “Identify Me” marketing campaign, Interpol stated, with the oldest case courting again to 1976.
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