His body was found on January 27, 1999 in a hotel room in Premià de Mar (Barcelona). His hands were tied and there were clear signs of violence on his body. The victim was staying with a white man, aged 25 to 30, of average height and with a three-day beard. With shoulder length hair, combed back and dark hair. The individual spoke French and English. Several witnesses told investigators that the couple was from Geneva (Switzerland). Police believe the woman was born in 1975. She had blue eyes and light brown hair. They found her without clothes. He also wore no jewelry or any scars or tattoos to aid his identification. Her case, that of “the woman who was not alone”, is one of those that the National Police has now transmitted to Interpol to try to identify her.
The body of a woman around 25 years old appeared in a hotel room in Premiá, with her hands tied.
There are four bodies of murdered women in Catalonia who are now part of the “Identify Me” program which attempts to collect information to know their identity. The other three are investigations carried out by the Mossos d’Esquadra. On July 3, 2005, they located a lifeless body on the road to Vila de Viladecans (Barcelona), at kilometer 84. It was a young woman between 20 and 25 years old, who had been dead for 24 hours. He was 1.60 meters tall and had brown hair, dyed copper. His eyes were blue.
“The woman in pink”, the case was named, because she wore pants of this color, size 36, and a floral top, from the brand Easy Wear, size 42. These are the data which are now made public at case where anyone could have information to try to identify the victim, who had a small mole on his abdomen. When her remains were found, she was wearing gold earrings and a bracelet with stars.
Clothes worn by the young woman found dead on a road in Viladecansn in July 2005. They were all pink
On November 3, 2003, Catalan police found the body of a woman in Malgrat de Mar (Barcelona). They found him on a rural road, with numerous injuries to his body and face. Forensic experts estimated she must have been killed about 12 hours before her body was found. Researchers followed a similar case in the Netherlands a few years later, in 2016, but ultimately ruled out this hypothesis. It is now also part of the Interpol database in case witnesses can provide information about what happened.
The body of a woman aged around 25 or 30 appeared on a road in Malgrat in November 2003.
When they found her, the victim was wearing Teri Pevi brand jeans and a deep purple wool sweater. Also a beige t-shirt from Marks & Spencer. Black cotton underwear and gray socks with small red and green geometric shapes. He had a vaccination mark on his left arm and a small tattoo with the Om symbol (three curves, a semicircle and a dot) on the back of his right hand.
She also wore several thin, wavy metal bracelets of different colors on her right wrist, and dark threads around her left ankle, like a bracelet, as well as on the thumbs of her feet. Investigators do not know the origin of the woman but, both because of the tattoo and the bracelets, they believe that she could be Bengali and that at the time of her assassination, she would have been between 25 and 30 years old. He had white but tanned skin, black hair and brown eyes.
Facial reconstruction of the victim found hanged in a house in Sant Julià de Ramis (Girona)
The last and most recent case is that of a woman who presented herself in a rural house in the Olivars Sant Julià de Ramis neighborhood (Girona). The Mossos found her hanging in the henhouse on August 4, 2018. She had no documents on her. Three people lived in the house but no one had seen her before and they didn’t know who she was. No vehicles appeared nearby either.
Researchers believe it originated in northern Europe, Poland, Germany or the Netherlands. Inquiries to the authorities of the above-mentioned countries to try to find out his identity have yielded no results. They estimate that he would be, as in the two previous cases, between 25 and 30 years old. She was blonde, of average height and with brown eyes. When they found his body, he was wearing a blue and white striped Fairly shirt and a size 4; Bershka jeans, size 36 and black Nike sneakers, size 38.5, with gray socks. He had the word “success” tattooed in Hebrew on his left forearm.
Citizen participation
In an attempt to identify the four deceased, information on these cases has already been published on the Interpol website, as well as facial reconstructions of some of them, as well as images of some clothing and jewelry. A call for citizen participation to advance the investigations, in the hope of obtaining some clues.
In 2023, this initiative made it possible to resolve a case dating back more than three decades. The victim’s relatives called the hotline after recognizing the woman’s tattoo on the news. This is Rita Roberts, who left Cardiff (Wales) in February 1992. Her body appeared in Ambertes in June of the same year. They had murdered her.
Anyone with information about these cases can contact authorities through Interpol.
