US EditionWoman in 20-Year-Old Cold Case Identified as Russian Citizen | News Channel 3-12
- Interpol identified Liudmila Zavada, a Russian woman found dead in Spain in 2005, through its cold cases campaign Identify Me.
- The identification followed increased global cooperation and use of fingerprint and DNA analysis after Spanish police submitted the case in 2022.
- Zavada’s body was discovered near Barcelona, dressed in pink, and evidence indicated it was moved before discovery under suspicious circumstances.
- Interpol Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza remarked that after two decades, a previously unidentified woman has finally been named, marking the third achievement of the campaign.
- The case renews hope for families and leads for investigators amid ongoing efforts to identify 44 more women found dead across Europe.
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‘Woman in pink’ identified after 20 years in Interpol’s cold case breakthrough
LYON, Sept 26 — A woman nicknamed “The Woman in Pink” after her body was found in Spain two decades ago has finally been identified, Interpol said yesterday.The case is the latest to be solved by the international police organisation’s cold cases campaign “Identify Me,” created in 2023 and tasked with identifying women who were found dead across Europe in recent decades, murdered or in suspicious circumstances.The woman was named as Liudmila Zav…
After 20 years of anonymity, a woman discovered dead in 2005 near Barcelona, nicknamed "the woman in pink" because of her clothes was identified as Liudmila Zavada, a 31-year-old Russian, thanks to a process set up by Interpol
A woman whose body was discovered in Spain more than 20 years ago has been identified thanks to an international police campaign.On Thursday, the identity of Liudmila Zavada, a 31-year-old Russian citizen, was determined.She is the third person identified through the “Operation Identify Me” initiative launched by the police in 2023 to find the names of women killed or killed in suspicious or inexplicable circumstances in Europe.The first case wa…
In 2005, a woman's body was discovered on a street near Barcelona. For years, the Spanish police have been questioning who was killed. After 20 years, Interpol investigators succeeded in identifying her. A biometric database in Turkey brings the breakthrough.
Nearly twenty years later, an unsolved cold case from Barcelona has finally been clarified. The body of the "woman in pink," found along a road in Spain in July 2005, turned out to be that of Russian citizen Liudmila Zavada. She was 31 years old when she was killed.
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