Woman in Spanish Cold Case Identified After 20 Years as Liudmila Zavada

In 2025, an international police effort known as Operation Identify Me successfully identified Liudmila Zavada, a Russian woman whose body was discovered on a Spanish roadside two decades earlier. Long referred to as "the woman in pink," her identity was finally restored through a fingerprint match in a Turkish database and subsequent DNA verification from a relative in Russia. This breakthrough highlights the critical role of Interpol in coordinating global data-sharing to solve cold cases involving migrants and victims of suspicious deaths. The initiative seeks to provide closure for families and generate fresh leads for investigators by releasing previously restricted case details to...