A campaign to resolve unexplained cold cases marked its first transcontinental success on Thursday with the Interpol police agency statement He identified a Paraguayan woman found hanged in Spain in 2018.
The agency based in France in a press release appointed 33 -year -old victim, previously known as “The Woman in the Chicken Coop”, under the name of Ainoha Izaga Ibieta Lima.
He praised the discovery as “the first successful transcontinental identification” in the “Identify Me” campaign of the World Agency to identify More than 40 women have died in six European countries in recent decades. Interpol has sought public help to put names for missing women.
The police said that identification would mean that they no longer had to identify the victims by their distinction characteristics or clothes, such as “Woman with flower tattooing” And “The woman with artificial nails“The other names include the locations where their leftovers have been discovered like”The woman in the canal” And “The woman in the suitcase. “”
Izaga’s brother reported his disappearance in 2019 and told investigators that she had left Paraguay in 2013 for Spain.
She was found hanging on a farm in Girona, northeast of Spain, in August 2018.
There was nothing on her to identify her and the inhabitants and the neighbors of the farm did not know who she was or where she came from.
After the launch of the Interpol call in 2023, the Paraguayan authorities in March 2025 equaled its fingerprints, provided by Spain, to those of their files.
The campaign claimed its first European success in November 2023 when the authorities identified Rita Roberts, a British woman found murdered in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1992. Relatives recognized it by a tattoo.
The secretary general of the interpol, Valdecy Urquiza, said in the press release that the campaign It was “to restore dignity to the victims and give a voice to the people affected by the tragedy”.
Forty-five cases in the “Identify me” The files remain unresolved.
