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Cold Case Solved: Russian Woman Identified After 18 Years

9/25/2025

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Liudmila Zavada, a 31-year-old Russian citizen, was identified in Spain through Interpol's Operation Identify Me.
Operation Identify Me, launched in 2023, targets cases of unidentified European women.
Zavada's body was found in July 2005 near Barcelona, dressed in pink, suspicious circumstances.
Identification used fingerprint analysis and DNA matching with a relative in Russia; a British woman in Belgium was identified.

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Story summary

Liudmila Zavada, a 31-year-old Russian citizen, was identified in Spain through Interpol's Operation Identify Me.
Operation Identify Me, launched in 2023, targets cases of unidentified European women.
Zavada's body was found in July 2005 near Barcelona, dressed in pink, suspicious circumstances.
Identification used fingerprint analysis and DNA matching with a relative in Russia; a British woman in Belgium was identified.