Netherlands Belgium, Liège, WhtFem, 14-24, Albert Canel (Dutch-Belgium border), May'09

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping up case. I wish we could see a list of Rule-outs. She is still listed so I assume sadly still unidentified.

Onbekend meisje gevonden in het Albertkanaal in Visé

Op zondag 31 mei 2009 werd in het Albertkanaal in Visé een naakt lichaam gevonden van een onbekende jonge vrouw. Het slachtoffer is vermoedelijk tussen 14 en 24 jaar oud. Ze is atletisch gebouwd, 1m62 lang en weegt ongeveer 50 kg. Ze heeft halflange blonde of lichtbruine haren.(foto nagel) Ze...

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[JennieM]

Identify Me: BEL06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Operation Identify Me: Seeking the names of unidentified victims of murder

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INTERPOL Black Notice: Operation Identify Me - Police search for the names of 22 women murdered

Operation Identify Me is a public appeal to identify 22 women, believed to have been murdered in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands, but whose identity was never found. Most are cold cases; women who died 10, 20, 30 or even 40 years ago. Despite extensive police investigations, these women...

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Operation Identify Me: Seeking the names of unidentified victims of murder
Case name: The woman with the artificial nails
Case code: 2023-BEL06

 

[JennieM]

• Date of death (estimated): Undetermined.
• Date of discovery: 31 May 2009
• Location: Belgium: Albert Canal, near the Lanaye Bridge in Visé, near the Dutch border.
• Sex: Female
• Estimated year of birth: Between 1985 and 1995
• Estimated age: Between 14 and 24 years old
• Height: 162 cm
• Skin tone: Light-skinned
• Hair colour: Blonde or light brown
• Eye colour: Light-coloured
• Clothing: She was not wearing any clothes
• Tattoos, birth marks, scars: The young woman had two surgical scars: one on her right wrist, about 10 cm long, and one on her lower abdomen. Her ears were pierced.
• Jewellery: None

The case​

On Sunday 31 May 2009, the body of a young woman was found in the Albert Canal in Visé, near the Dutch border. Her body may have been in the water for 1 to 5 weeks. She was killed by violence and her body was weighed down with two ‘Alex’ brand weights.

Characteristics​

Facial reconstructions in 2D and 3D were made of the young woman, showing what she might have looked like during her lifetime. She is believed to be between 14 and 24 years old and 1.62 meters tall. She was athletically built, had medium-length blond or light brown hair, a light complexion, good dentition and pierced ears.

She had artificial nails. On both ring fingers the artificial nails were decorated with a floral pattern. She had a surgical scar on her lower abdomen and right wrist. The wrist scar is about 10 cm long. The investigation revealed that the young woman had been living in the Benelux region for several years and she spent her childhood in Eastern Europe.

Contact
If you have any information regarding the possible identity of this person, please contact the Belgian national police via the form below.

You can also contact them and view this case on their national police website.

Identify Me: BEL06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Operation Identify Me: Seeking the names of unidentified victims of murder

www.interpol.int

 

[JennieM]

Identify Me: BEL06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Operation Identify Me: Seeking the names of unidentified victims of murder

www.interpol.int

 

[JennieM]

Facial reconstruction 2D of the victim

Facial reconstructions 2D and 3D of the victim

Floral pattern on both artificial nails of the ring fingers

Two 'Alex' brand weights used to weigh down the body

Identify Me: BEL06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Operation Identify Me: Seeking the names of unidentified victims of murder

www.interpol.int

 

[NextSprint]

Bumping for this poor lady; I struggle to comprehend how difficult it is to trace this one, and I've spent many many hours over the years on it.

 

[Bit of hope]

It's interesting that it turns out the artificial nails, with the flowers, are on the ring finger. A different source said pinky fingers, but I consider it confirmed that it were the ring fingers, now Interpol brought this case up again. Not that I found anything about it, but could only decorating your ring fingers have a special meaning?

 

[NextSprint]

It's interesting that it turns out the artificial nails, with the flowers, are on the ring finger. A different source said pinky fingers, but I consider it confirmed that it were the ring fingers, now Interpol brought this case up again. Not that I found anything about it, but could only decorating your ring fingers have a special meaning?

That's interesting. Is it 100% certain that it was the ring finger (presumably on the left hand)?

 

[Bit of hope]

That's interesting. Is it 100% certain that it was the ring finger (presumably on the left hand)?

This is in the Interpol file: On both ring fingers the artificial nails were decorated with a floral pattern. If Interpol isn't certain, which I doubt, who can be, beside the killer(s)?

 

[NextSprint]

This is in the Interpol file: On both ring fingers the artificial nails were decorated with a floral pattern. If Interpol isn't certain, which I doubt, who can be, beside the killer(s)?

Great, thanks for that, I missed it.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

The link of the Belgian Police in the first post no longer works.

The new link is:
Onbekend meisje

The location is mentioned as "Wezet".
The Dutch police calls this place "Visé".

It's the same place.

The Belgian links no longer work. I wonder if she has been identified?

However this Interpol link is still up, so maybe not.

Identify Me: BE06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Found in the Albert Canal in Visé, Belgium.

www.interpol.int

I hope she will be identified. How very tragic this happened to her.

There is at least one very dangerous murderer at large, and she deserves justice.

 

[Carovb5]

The Belgian links no longer work. I wonder if she has been identified?

However this Interpol link is still up, so maybe not.

Identify Me: BE06 - The woman with the artificial nails

Found in the Albert Canal in Visé, Belgium.

www.interpol.int

I hope she will be identified. How very tragic this happened to her.

There is at least one very dangerous murderer at large, and she deserves justice.

Looks like the Belgian police has a new link. https://www.politie.be/opsporingen/...ichamen-of-lichaamsdelen/onbekende-vrouw-vise

So unfortunately doesn’t seem she was identified. I hope she will soon!

 

[ZaZara]

The Belgian links no longer work. I wonder if she has been identified?

Belgian lE change websites every now and then. Some years ago, I found a call for witnesses in the case of a missing woman on a website that apparently was all official. When I dug further, i discovered another official website indicating that the brother in law had been convicted of her murder. Fortunately, nowadays they delete the old pages.

 

[Triss]

Looks like the Belgian police has a new link. https://www.politie.be/opsporingen/...ichamen-of-lichaamsdelen/onbekende-vrouw-vise

So unfortunately doesn’t seem she was identified. I hope she will soon!

Aw, I was hoping for an identification, but thank you for providing a new link!

 

[ZaZara]

AI reconstruction of her face on the website of Stichting Coldcasezaken:

 

[Megsc]

I feel like the facial features of 14yo Anita Richter, missing 300 miles away in Hamburg ten years before this woman's body was found, are a very strong match. Particularly the jaw and cheek structure, the nose, the peculiar ear shape (the lobe), the eye shape, mouth shape, and the measurements between the key parts of the face.

I ran the drawing and the known photo of AR through an AI facial feature classifier and it gave a 70% match without compensating for age.

I've sent this to the Netherlands police but if anybody has a way of contacting someone relevant in Germany please let me know.

Did you submit Anita as a potential match ? They do really lookalike imo

 

[Susikatze]

That's interesting. Is it 100% certain that it was the ring finger (presumably on the left hand)?

No, that is solely fashion. I had stick on nails for my wedding that had a silver decoration on the ring finger but none on the others. Just a style, zero meaning.

 

[Susikatze]

Did you submit Anita as a potential match ? They do really lookalike imo

Unlikely. Yes Anita could have been trafficked or groomed and lived under the radar for 10 years in Belgium but it is a very long shot. I am no fan of isotope analytics at all but in the case of our UID I believe it being correct that she grew up in Eastern Europe, Poland Ukraine or Hungary. Many women from those places coming to Belgium and Germany as workers in factories or in the hospitality industry or sometimes as sexworkers. If they disappear not many people notice, sadly.

 

[Megsc]

Unlikely. Yes Anita could have been trafficked or groomed and lived under the radar for 10 years in Belgium but it is a very long shot. I am no fan of isotope analytics at all but in the case of our UID I believe it being correct that she grew up in Eastern Europe, Poland Ukraine or Hungary. Many women from those places coming to Belgium and Germany as workers in factories or in the hospitality industry or sometimes as sexworkers. If they disappear not many people notice, sadly.

While I totally agree with you I think submitting a potential match can never hurt the case, worst that can happen is that it’s not Anita
Also unlikely doesn’t mean impossible