A marketing campaign to resolve unexplained chilly circumstances marked its first transcontinental success on Thursday with the police company Interpol reporting it recognized a Paraguayan girl discovered hanged in Spain in 2018.
The France-based company in a press release named the 33-year-old sufferer, beforehand identified solely as “the lady within the hen coop,” as Ainoha Izaga Ibieta Lima.
It hailed the invention as “the primary profitable trans-continental identification” within the international company’s “Determine Me” marketing campaign to identify greater than 40 ladies discovered lifeless in six European international locations over current many years. Interpol has been searching for public assist to place names to the lacking ladies.
Police stated that identification would imply they not need to establish the victims by their distinguishing options or attire, reminiscent of “the woman with the flower tattoo” and “the woman with the artificial nails.” Different names embrace the places the place their stays have been found like “the woman in the canal” and “the woman in the suitcase.”
Izaga’s brother reported her disappearance in 2019 and instructed investigators she had left Paraguay in 2013 for Spain.
She was discovered hanged on a farm in Girona, northeastern Spain, in August 2018.
There was nothing on her to establish her and the farm’s inhabitants and neighbours didn’t know who she was or the place she was from.
After the launch of the Interpol attraction in 2023, Paraguayan authorities in March 2025 matched her fingerprints, provided by Spain, to ones of their information.
The marketing campaign claimed its first European success in November 2023 when authorities recognized Rita Roberts, a British girl discovered murdered in Antwerp, Belgium in 1992. Family members acknowledged her by a tattoo.
Interpol Secretary Basic Valdecy Urquiza stated within the assertion that the campaign was “about restoring dignity to victims and giving a voice to these affected by tragedy”.
Forty-five of the circumstances within the “Identify Me” information stay unsolved.
