On July 3, 2005, a taxi driver found a woman’s body on the Viladecans road, in the province of Barcelona. She was a woman with blue eyes and brown hair, cool and wavy. He had been dead less than 24 hours and the cause of death was suspicious. He wore a pink complex: fuchsia pants, a pink blouse with black and pink flower and pink sandals. That was why, before identification 20 years later. This Thursday, the Interior Ministry has confirmed that it has been identified. This is Liudmila Zavada, a woman of Russian origin who was 31 years old at the time of her death.
This case, which tries to solve the cases of 46 dead women without identifying. The National Central Office (OCN) of Interpol in Madrid has led the operation from Spain, and have had a constant exchange of information with other countries. In the investigation, agents from the OCN of Ankara (Türkiye) have participated and data with authorities of Russia, their country of origin, have been crossed.
The Madrid Office of the Interpol received identifying material from Türkiye, fingerprints that coincided with those of Rosa’s woman. Once the footprints have arrived, the Forensic Anthropology section of the General Police Police Station carried out a study that corroborated the identity of the woman and revealed the age she was at the time of her death. Later, the Russian authorities collated the genetic profile of the victim with that of a deceased sister.
The Secretary General of Interpol, Valdecy Urquiza, has congratulated the Spanish, Turkish and Russian authorities “for working together in this case.” Urquiza has assured that this identification, in addition to providing “justice and closing to the families and friends of the deceased people” also “reinforces international cooperation and trust in forensic research.” Research on how his death took place continues to be carried out.
First case resolved
The National Police spokeswoman, Elisa Rebolo, has confirmed the results of the action and recalled that “it is the second case identified by National Police agents in Spain.” The first was resolved in March of this year, when it was possible to identify the body of a woman from Paraguay who was found in Sant Juliá de Ramis (Girona) in August 2018. Before identification the woman was known as the woman was known as The shed woman.
It was achieved confirming its identity seven years later thanks to the fact that Paraguay’s police databases crossed fingerprints with each other. In the first successful case of identification, the body hung on a chicken coop belonging to a Girondí town house was found. Three people lived in that house, and they all claimed not to meet the woman. No one in the area knew who it was, and no vehicle was found in the vicinity. The woman had no identification on top and wore a blue and white striped shirt, jeans and black sneakers.
