Identified! Croatia - Island of Krk, Living Female 60's, Perfect English, Sep'21 - Daniela Adamcova

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  • #81
Cannot help but think of the man who was wandering around the UK and did not know his name or where he came from, but had an North American accent.
Finally turned out that he had dementia or something similar- and was actually from the US, and it was a family member, who brought him to the UK just to dump him off.
Wife and son 'dumped American man with dementia in UK car park'

Just a thought in case the woman has early onset dementia etc. and she was put on an ''ice floe'' imo, speculation.
Put the elderly on ice? | CNN
 
  • #82
dotr said:
Cannot help but think of the man who was wandering around the UK and did not know his name or where he came from, but had an North American accent.
Finally turned out that he had dementia or something similar- and was actually from the US, and it was a family member, who brought him to the UK just to dump him off.
Wife and son 'dumped American man with dementia in UK car park'

Just a thought in case the woman has early onset dementia etc. and she was put on an ''ice floe'' imo, speculation.
Put the elderly on ice? | CNN
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Aweful and very sad story..
Things are not getting better,when getting older and healthcare is becoming too expensive.:(
Heard some stories about that,in the late 90ss,when I was dating an US militair,stationed in NL,at that time.


From your link:
"Because of the high cost of care in the US, elderly people are sometimes abandoned at hospitals in a practice called granny-dumping."
 
  • #83
Still haven't found a name but have come across another photo with more people in it and someone mentioned earlier in the thread about the website giving keys which is also depicted in the photo. Surely the police must be able to trace her somehow? Or the others in the photo?
 

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  • #84
squish said:
The Slavic languages aren't mutually intelligible, only closely related Slavic languages are mutually intelligible. For comparison, in our own Germanic language group, English language speakers can somewhat understand Frisian (a minority language in the Netherlands and Germany) as it is the closest living language to ours, and many Scandinavian people can understand each other to varying extents. But an English person cannot understand Swedish, even though there are some words that are from the same origin.

Similarly, with the Slavic group of languages, a Croatian may be able to understand Slovenian to a slight degree, and Russian might understand some Belarussian, or a Polish person understand Slovakian, but a Croatian certainly won't be able to understand much Russian, or any of the other languages outside of their very close neighbours.
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Respectfully disagree. While Slavic languages aren't fully mutually intelligible, there are enough similarities between west, east and south Slavic languages to allow speakers to understand each other. I'm Polish and it's indeed easy for me to understand Slovak (both Polish and Slovak are west Slavic languages), but understanding south Slavic languages such as Croatian, Bulgarian or Serbian is not a big deal either, especially when other people speak slowly and/or use basic vocabulary.
If Jane Doe is Polish or Eastern European and she's in her 50s or 60s, then she most likely learnt Russian (an east Slavic language) in school too.
Such a bizarre case. I hope she remembers who she is soon!
 
  • #85
dotr said:
Cannot help but think of the man who was wandering around the UK and did not know his name or where he came from, but had an North American accent.
Finally turned out that he had dementia or something similar- and was actually from the US, and it was a family member, who brought him to the UK just to dump him off.
Wife and son 'dumped American man with dementia in UK car park'

Just a thought in case the woman has early onset dementia etc. and she was put on an ''ice floe'' imo, speculation.
Put the elderly on ice? | CNN
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:eek: Wow, that's a new low.
 
  • #86
Triss said:
I have a feeling she could be Polish so I shared her story with some Polish Facebook missing persons pages. There are a lot of Polish people living in the UK, maybe that's where Jane Doe lives too and that would explain her "perfect English/English with a slight Eastern European accent".
The Polish and Croatian languages both belong to the Slavic language group and because of that they're more or less mutually intelligible. She should be able to understand at least some Croatian if she's Polish. JMO.
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I agree. When I first saw her my immediate thought was that she may be polish.
 
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Well this idea might be full of hot air, but...
considering the area is barely accessible either by land or water, could it be possible the uid woman arrived in a hot air balloon?
imo, speculation.
Balon klub Zagreb
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Looking for an unique way to experience Croatia? Hop in!''
 
  • #89
HollyHunter9 said:
Still haven't found a name but have come across another photo with more people in it and someone mentioned earlier in the thread about the website giving keys which is also depicted in the photo. Surely the police must be able to trace her somehow? Or the others in the photo?
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I could be wrong but if those photos were from the "Carols and Keys" event in 2014... it appears that was held at The Fig House in Los Angeles, so she must have been in the US at that time. 'Maybe reaching out to The Giving Keys company on FB or IG would help?

ETA: I know 2014 was 7 yrs ago but they didn't seem to be a huge company. Also, if you found her photo via a missing persons site then I guess her name can be found there? So my suggestion of sharing her pic with the company is useless.
 
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https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/56234-mystery-krk-woman
''Although so far it is only known that she speaks fluent English, in a conversation with a saleswoman at a nearby kiosk, Vecernji List learned that the woman allegedly also speaks Croatian.

A saleswoman in Krk said that when she visited her kiosk, she spoke Croatian, and she also knew how to ride the bus on lines around the island.

24 Sata reported that Czech media revealed that the could be Slovak. The portal tn.nova.cz transmitted the testimony of Czech tourists who claim to have met her.

"I met her on Thursday, September 9, in Drvenik, near Makarska," a reader who was on vacation in Croatia with her husband told the Czech portal.

"She told us about how she travels and that she is retired, and her friends are still working. So she went on the trip alone. Because she was afraid of a 14-day quarantine upon her return to Slovakia, she turned off her phone and removed her SIM card," they added.

"She also wanted to go to Lika, which is still far from the island of Krk. She was very intelligent, she told us that she had been in England for some time, so she spoke English well," the tourist concludes.''

Croatia police trying to identify woman with memory loss
''The case has drawn attention both in Croatia and internationally. With its stunning coastline and islands, Croatia is one of the most popular European tourism destinations and frequented each year by millions of tourists from all over the world.

Local Croatian rescue services have said that the unknown woman had spent the night at the sea shore and was found “exhausted and with light injuries and disoriented.”

The woman has since been transferred to a hospital in the town of Rijeka. Police described her condition in the email to the AP as “stable” and said that Croatian social services will take over once she is released from hospital care.''
 
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The final result of this was her telling police and everyone else that she did know who she was but did not want to disclose it, as was her right.

From memory, she never did tell the police who she was, but did disclose to someone, maybe a Dr in strict confidence.
Medical staff were satisfied that she did know who she was and that no more information on her would be released, at her request.

The really strange thing is that nobody came forward who said they knew her. No family, neighbours, friends, medical staff, shop workers etc.



Andieinsyd said:
"Final update" as mystery women identifies herself to police - Hellocare
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Aha, she's worried about being put into quarantine.

My thinking now, is that she knows who she is, and has removed anything that might ID her.
Plus turned off phone and removed sim card.
 
  • #96
Re no money in her wallet. Maybe she was robbed ?
 
  • #97
TootsieFootsie said:
Aha, she's worried about being put into quarantine.

My thinking now, is that she knows who she is, and has removed anything that might ID her.
Plus turned off phone and removed sim card.
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That's certainly a possibility. Someone, somewhere must know who she is, though. I hope someone comes forward soon.
 
  • #98
ttcRider said:
Has she been able to say how long she has been there? I cannot understand how 'amnesia' works. Why does it always happen to people who are not at home and alone?
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because if they are home, then people would know who they are?
 
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  • #100
Their neighbours and family would know them as would many others in their day to day lives.

ttcRider said:
Hahaha! True, but would they believe them???
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