Unidentified woman, Lecce, 19/11/2021
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Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 19/11/2021
- Case file number
- 2898
- Place of recovery
- Casarano
- Municipality
- Lecce
- Province
- Lecce
- Region
- Puglia
- Sex
- Female
- Clothing
- Some unspecified clothing items near the body
- Personal effects
- orange plastic bracelet, hospital-type Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
Where the recovery took place
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Notes on this record
What emerges when the official register data are compared with the press sources collected below.
- The record lists the municipality of Lecce: the discovery took place in the industrial area of Casarano, near via Comunale Formica, an independent municipality in the province of Lecce distinct from the provincial capital.
- The medical examiner found no external signs of violence on the body; the Lecce prosecutor's office is nonetheless investigating for manslaughter and has ordered an autopsy to establish the cause of death (Corriere Salentino).
- Sources suggest, without confirmation, that the woman was a foreign national, possibly Romanian, based on the worn and illegible name engraved on the bracelet (LeccePrima).
Articles and sources
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Casarano, il cadavere corificato è di una donna straniera dimessa dall'ospedale mesi fa: si indaga per omicidio colposo
According to the Carabinieri, she would be a middle-aged foreign woman, discharged months earlier from a hospital stay for neurological and cardiological tests; the Lecce prosecutor's office is investigating for manslaughter. A hospital bracelet was also found next to the body.
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Cadavere corificato, è di una donna straniera. Mistero sulla morte, s'indaga per omicidio
The name engraved on the bracelet was worn away and illegible; investigators hypothesize a woman of foreign nationality, possibly Romanian.
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Cadavere corificato di una donna trovato in un terreno: è mistero
The body, in a state of corification (a process similar to mummification), was found nude by the owner of the land; death is believed to have occurred about six months earlier.
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