The police are now releasing information about 22 women who were found murdered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany between 1976 and 2019. They do not know who any of them are.
- Interpol is now sharing information on 22 unidentified women who were found murdered in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the period 1976 to 2019.
- Most of the women suffered a violent death. Some were mistreated or starved before they died. One was found burned in the forest.
- The police are struggling to identify the women. One theory is that they may be from other countries than where they were found.
- Kripos confirms that they will look into one of the cases in more detail.
It is the first time that Interpol has released details in so-called “black noticeblack noticeInterpol notification to the police when requesting a search for information on unidentified persons. The details are not usually shared with the public. » things.
The project «Identify Me» is a collaboration between Interpol and Dutch, German and Belgian police.
– Most of the 22 victims suffered a violent death and some were mistreated or starved before they died, say Carina van Leeuwen and Martin de Wit of the Dutch police in a press release.
On Friday, Kripos informs VG that they have seen the information on all 22 cases. They will take a closer look at one of them in particular.
Probably from other countries
Investigators in the three countries have worked together to analyze the evidence that could identify the murdered women, but have struggled to find clues.
Several of the women were found along motorways, in forests and in car parks.
Now the police believe that the reason the women have not been identified may be that they are from other countries than where they were found.
– It is possible that the bodies were dumped in other countries to prevent the police investigation, according to Dutch police.
According to Interpol, the various women may have been between 13 and 55 years old when they were killed.
Going out with new details
Now Interpol has released a list containing details of the women: photographs of possible identifying items such as clothing, jewelry and tattoos, and in some cases new facial reconstructions. All in the hope of gathering information from the public.
– Perhaps the audience will recognize a special earring, or a specific item of clothing on one of the women, says Susan Hitchin, to BBC. She is the coordinator of Interpol’s DNA unit.
Here are some of the issues:
The woman in the blanket
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One of the cases concerns a woman who was found in the port of the Weser in Bremen in Germany on 30 July 2002. The police assume that she was between 22 and 35 years old.
The body was found wrapped in a sheet, plastic bag, some cloth and a blanket. She was found by private individuals in a leisure boat.
It has not been possible to determine a cause of death, but the woman had injuries to her neck.
In her right ear, the woman had a silver earring with a red stone. Police believe it was manufactured in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1956, but it may have been purchased in another country. In her left ear she had a golden earring with a dark stone.
The police believe the woman had a child sometime between 1985 and 1999.
The woman in the suitcase
In 2005, another woman was found in a suitcase in a canal at a residential area in Schiedam in the Netherlands. The police assume that she was between 16 and 22 years old.
The suitcase floated in the canal for a while before a contractor in the municipality picked it up. The woman had probably been dead for two weeks when she was found.
The woman was dressed in large, blue sweatpants. She was wearing a red T-shirt in size S/M with the word “Victory” printed in white text on the front.
The police believe the woman is originally from northern Scandinavia, Poland or Germany.
The woman in the canal
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One of the cases has been named “The woman in the canal”. She was found on 1 September 1992 in a canal in Amsterdam.
The woman is believed to be between 25 and 45 years old when she was found.
It was passers-by who first discovered two hands in the canal. When the canal was searched, the police found the lower part of two legs.
Later, a suitcase containing the woman’s torso was found.
The woman with the flower tattoo
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One of the women was found dead in Belgium in 1992. She had been killed violently.
She was found lying against a grate in a river in Antwerp. The police quickly saw that she had a very characteristic flower tattoo on the left forearm. Directly below was the word “R’NICK” written.
The police estimate that the woman may have been between 20 and 50 years old. She was wearing a conspicuous T-shirt with the brand “SPLINTER” written across the chest, but police have never been able to identify her.
The burnt woman in the forest
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On Monday 2 June 1997, a naked woman was found in a forest in Altena-Bergfeld in Germany.
Someone had raped and strangled her. The day before she was found, the woman was set on fire in the forest. The police believe that the woman was moved, and that the scene of the murder is another and unknown place.
The perpetrator went to great lengths to remove identifying signs of the woman:
It was not possible to take fingerprints. On one of the front teeth, the victim had probably worn a diamond-like stone of approx. two millimeters, but traces in the adhesive surface indicated that the stone was removed after the murder.
The woman at the dam
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Another woman was found just outside Froidchapelle, a small village on the Belgian side of the border with France. One day early in May 1996, the woman was found in a lake right near the country’s largest dam, La Plate Taille.
The police believe the woman was between 25 and 35 years old when she was killed.
They particularly focused on one detail: the woman was between 160 and 170 cm tall, but her left foot was two centimeters shorter than the right.
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