“The Lady in Pink” Recognized by way of INTERPOL’s “Establish Me”

It’s difficult sufficient to determine a unknown deceased physique discovered within the individual’s dwelling metropolis.

It’s more difficult to determine one elsewhere within the individual’s dwelling nation.

And when the physique is discovered exterior the individual’s dwelling nation…that’s when organizations resembling INTERPOL step in.

“Establish Me is a public enchantment to determine ladies whose our bodies have been present in six European international locations, a lot of whom are believed to have been murdered.

“Most are chilly circumstances; ladies who died 10, 20, 30 and even 40 years in the past. They have been present in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, or Spain.

“Regardless of intensive police investigations, these ladies have been by no means recognized, and proof means that a few of them may have come from different international locations. Who they’re, the place they’re from and why they have been in these international locations is unknown.”

INTERPOL points a wide range of coloured notices to its member international locations, together with the “Black Discover” to hunt data on unidentified our bodies. The “Establish Me” program is a public enchantment for a small subset of those folks.

Right here’s one in every of INTERPOL’s success tales, “The lady in pink“:

“On 3 July 2005, the physique of a lady was discovered on the 84 km mark on the Vila street within the city of Viladecans (province of Barcelona). The lady had been lifeless for lower than 24 hours; the reason for loss of life was suspicious….

“A breakthrough got here in 2025 when police in Türkiye ran the fingerprints related to ‘The lady in pink’ via a nationwide biometric database, leading to a match with Russian nationwide Liudmila Zavada, aged 31 on the time of her loss of life. The match was subsequently confirmed via kinship DNA evaluation utilizing the DNA of one in every of Liudmila Zavada’s shut kin.”

So observe the path:

There was a lady from Russia.
A deceased lady’s physique was present in Spain.
Many years later, the deceased ladies was recognized because the Russian lady by way of biometrics (fingerprints) in Türkiye.
The identification was confirmed by way of DNA evaluation.

A real case of cross-national collaboration.