Unidentified woman, Messina, 02/10/2009
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 02/10/2009
- Case file number
- 677
- Place of recovery
- Messina, Giampilieri Superiore
- Municipality
- Messina
- Province
- Messina
- Region
- Sicilia
- Sex
- Female
- Estimated age
- between 30 and 35 years Previous version of the register: 45
- Height
- 150 cm
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Biogeographic ancestry
- Caucasian
- Distinguishing marks
- Fair complexion with freckles on the body
- Presumed cause of death
- Giampilieri superiore flood year 2009
- Further information
- Death presumably caused by the flood of 01/10/2009.
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.
- A commemorative article from 2024, fifteen years after the Giampilieri flood, confirms that among the 37 victims only one remained without a name.
Articles and sources
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Voglio andare su un elicottero per stare più vicino a mamma
Article summary: A second article on the same disaster, published a few days later, fits within the same context of the search for and recovery of the victims of the Giampilieri flood, among whom was an unidentified female body. The full text is available only in the publisher's paid archive.
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Brian, il bimbo sopravvissuto due volte
Article summary: The article, devoted to the story of a young man who survived the Giampilieri flood of 1 October 2009, confirms that in the days immediately following the disaster several recovered bodies were still without identity. It does not single out the case of this record specifically, but confirms that in the first days after the flood several bodies were without identity, later reduced to just one according to the 2024 review. The full text is available only in the publisher's paid archive.
Original record
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