Detectives in three European countries want help to identify victims whose names remain a mystery.
Police in three European countries are asking for help to identify 22 murdered women whose names remain a mystery.An unsolved murder of a woman in Amsterdam, found in a wheelie bin in a river, sparked the move by Interpol.
Having exhausted all efforts, she and a colleague contacted police in neighbouring Germany and Belgium and learned of many more possible murder cases with unidentified women victims.The original reconstruction of the Amsterdam victim's face from 1999, alongside a much more accurate depiction using new technology
It can make identifying bodies more challenging, and women are "disproportionately affected by gender-based violence, including domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking", she says.The body of the woman found in the bin now lies in a cemetery in central Amsterdam. But when he lashed the bin to the boat he noticed it was heavier than he had expected and, as more of it surfaced above the water, he could smell "something awful".
The investigation at the time established that the woman was probably in her mid-20s and "partly western European and partly Asian".have narrowed down her place of birth to either the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg or Belgium. She was wearing a gold-coloured watch on her right wrist and a snakeskin print bag was also found in the bin.
Identifying the dead became her specialism and she has gone on to identify 41 people who died from various causes. She was found lying against a grate in a river in Antwerp in 1992. Police said she had been killed violently, but they never discovered her name.In another case from 2002, a woman's body was found in a sailing club in the German city Bremen, wrapped in a carpet and bound with string.
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