LYON: Global police body Interpol on Tuesday launched a new campaign to identify 46 women whose remains have been found across Europe in unsolved cases, some dating back decades.
The initiative from the Lyon-based organisation builds on the success of the first “Identify Me” campaign, which last year helped identify the body of a woman found murdered 31 years ago in a Belgian river as Briton Rita Roberts.
The original initiative launched to identify 22 deceased women saw some 1,800 tips received from the public.
Now the campaign has been expanded to include cold cases from Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands, as well as unexplained deaths from new participating countries France, Italy, and Spain.
Most of the women were “murdered or had died in suspicious or unexplained circumstances,” the organisation said.
“We need your help!” Interpol’s secretary-general Jurgen Stock said in a video.