Case name: The woman in pink
Case code: 2024-ES06
The case
On 3 July 2005, the body of a woman was found at the 84 km mark on the Vila road in the town of Viladecans, a province of Barcelona. She was dressed in a pink floral top, pink trousers and pink shoes, and had been dead for less than 24 hours.
Local police deemed the cause of death suspicious, as evidence suggested the body had been moved in the 12 hours preceding its discovery.
However, despite thorough investigations, her identity remained a mystery for nearly two decades. With no new leads, authorities in Spain submitted the case to INTERPOL's Identify Me in 2024.
The identification
‘The woman in pink’ was identified in 2025 as Russian citizen Liudmila Zavada. As part of the Identify Me initiative, INTERPOL shared the biometric records of all cases with its 196 member countries.
A breakthrough came when police in Türkiye ran the fingerprints associated with 'The woman in pink' through its national biometric database, resulting in a match with Russian national Liudmila Zavada, who was 31 years old at the time of her death. The match was subsequently confirmed through kinship DNA analysis using the DNA of one of Liudmila Zavada's close relatives.
Ongoing investigation
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