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Interpol launches campaign to help solve 46 cold cases of women whose bodies were found in Europe
The International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) launched a new campaign last week seeking the public’s help solving 46 cold cases of women whose bodies were found in Europe between 1982 and 2021.
Interpol’s goal through the «Identify me» campaign is to solve 46 cold cases in which the victims, all women, were found dead in six European countries, including France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
«Despite extensive police investigations, these women were never identified, and evidence suggests that some of them could have come from other countries,» Interpol said in a press release. «Who they are, where they are from and why they were in these countries is unknown.»
Interpol issued a Black Notice for each victim, and while the alerts are for police only, Interpol released extracts of the notices for the public to review.
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Along with the extracts, there are details about each case, including facial reconstruction images, with hope that someone may be able to recognize them and help determine the circumstances that led to their death.
One of the cases, for example, is called «The woman in the well,» which roots back to Aug. 6, 1991.
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Interpol is asking for the public’s help in solving 46 cold cases of women whose bodies were discovered in Europe between 1982 and 2021, including the woman in the well, whose was found in a well in Belgium. (Interpol)
That day, a woman estimated to be between 30 and 55 years old was found in a rainwater well in Holsbeek, Belgium.
Police say the woman was wearing a beige/brown knitted cardigan, a t-shirt with black vertical stripes, an image of two surfers and three palm trees with text reading, «sun-surf-sea,» and dark plaid shorts.
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Interpol is asking for the public’s help in solving 46 cold cases of women whose bodies were discovered in Europe between 1982 and 2021, including the woman in the well, who was found in a well in Belgium. (Interpol)
Police also said the woman’s body may have been in the well for up to two years before it was discovered.
Another case called, «The body in the bog,» was opened on Oct. 14, 2001, when the body of a woman between the ages of 20 and 30 was found in a bog in the Worringen quarter of Cologne, Germany.
Police said the woman is presumed to have had a dark complexion and had black hair with interwoven artificial hair.
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Interpol is asking for the public’s help in identifying 46 women whose bodies were found in Europe between 1982 and 2021. (Interpol)
Her body was discovered by a mushroom picker, and it is suspected of being there for at least four months prior to its discovery, though police added it may have been there for up to four years.
Experts reconstructed the woman’s face in April 2002, to get an idea of how the woman may have looked at the time of her death.
For each case on the website, police have a link that people can click to contact Interpol and the police agency of the particular country where the body was found.
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«We need you to help us resolve these cold cases,» Interpol Secretary General Jürgen Stock said in a post on X. «Our goal is to identify these deceased women and bring answers to families.»
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Senior Islamic State leader killed in Iraq, Trump says his ‘miserable life was terminated’
The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister announced on Friday.
Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or «Abu Khadija,» was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement.
The prime minister described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the news on his social media platform Truth Social, saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.»
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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani described al-Rifai as «one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.» (AP)
«Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed,» Trump wrote Friday night. «He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government.»
«PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!» the president added.
U.S. Central Command said in a statement that its forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and security forces, conducted an airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the «Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias ‘Abu Khadijah,’ and one other ISIS operative.»
U.S. President Donald Trump reacted by saying al-Rifai’s «miserable life was terminated.» (Getty Images)
«As the Emir of ISIS’ most senior decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a significant portion of finance for the group’s global organization,» CENTCOM said.
Islamic State/Iraq/Syria: A masked Islamic State soldier poses holding the ISIL banner somewhere in the deserts of Iraq or Syria. ISIL publicity image, 2015. (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After the strike, U.S. and Iraqi forces moved to the location of the strike and found both dead ISIS targets who were each wearing unexploded «suicide vests» and who had multiple weapons, CENTCOM said.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces were able to identify al-Rifai using DNA collected in a previous raid where he narrowly escaped.
«Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond,» Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander at CENTCOM, said in a statement.
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