Australia Australia - Anna Rosa Liva, 30, Coober Pedy, SA, 25 Nov 1991

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The Doe Network:
Case File 2164DFSAU

Anna Rosa Liva
Missing since November 27, 1991 from Coober Pedy, South Australia
Classification: Involuntary

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Vital Statistics

• Age at Time of Disappearance: 30 years old
• Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Dark hair.
• Other: Italian citizen.

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Circumstances of Disappearance
Anna Rosa Liva was last seen in the mining town of Coober Pedy on November 27, 1991.
Liva had left her home in Italy to travel around the world. She disappeared a few hours after her arrival in Coober Pedy.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:

South Australian Police
08-8207 5000

Source Information:
MAKO
Il Gazzetino

https://cooberpedyregionaltimes.wor...liva-disappearance-still-under-investigation/

 

[iulia]

Cold case disappearances in outback mining town could be linked

The cold case disappearances of a teenage girl and a woman from the outback mining town of Coober Pedy in the early 1990s could be linked, police have revealed.

For decades, detectives have treated the suspected murders of Karen Williams, 16, and Anna Rosa Liva, 30, as unrelated cases but they're no longer so sure.

 

[CastlesBurning]

The trip a lifetime that ended in a life tragically taken

Anna Rosa Liva was an Italian national who was in Australia on a backpacker adventure of a lifetime.

The experienced traveller from Pordenone, in northern Italy, arrived on a bus at Coober Pedy from Alice Springs at 10pm on 27 November 1991.

She booked into accommodation on Olive St, just off Hutchinson St – the town’s main thoroughfare.

That night the accommodation was full of backpackers eager to explore the Outback town. It is unknown whether she went out that night but, at 8am the next morning – 28 November – Anna ate breakfast at the Last Resort Cafe a few hundred metres from her accommodation and left around 8.45am.

By 9.15am, she had returned to her accommodation and had a cup of coffee and spoke to staff. She told staff that she planned to go “noodling’’ for opals – a term she is suspected to have picked up during a conversation with a local.

There was an unconfirmed sighting of Anna at 9.30am when a local saw a woman matching her description in Edward St, off Hutchinson St.

Her last confirmed sighting was at 11.30am at the council chambers, at the corner of St Nicholas and Hutchinson streets.

She had been seeking tourist information and had a conversation with a worker about a common interest – the Jehovah’s Witness religion. She had made plans to go to a meeting of Jehovah’s Witness’ at 7pm that night in Coober Pedy.

She also collected information about a Jehovah’s Witness establishment at Ingle Farm and obtained a map of Coober Pedy.

Police suspect that she disappeared shortly after leaving the council chambers and never returned to her accommodation, which was only about 300m down Hutchinson St.

Police believe it is most likely that she had a discussion with someone and went willingly with her killer.

Her body is believed to have been disposed of in one of the thousands of disused mineshafts that surround the Far North town. More than a dozen shafts near where Anna was last seen have been searched and nothing located.

A reward of up to $200,000 remains on offer to anyone who provides information that leads to a conviction or the recovery of Anna’s remains.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Still missing - this fall will be 30 years.

CASE PROFILE – Anna Rosa Liva