Unidentified woman, Novara, 26/06/1988
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 26/06/1988
- Case file number
- 1504
- Place of recovery
- Miami
- Municipality
- Novara
- Province
- Novara
- Region
- Piemonte
- Sex
- Female
- Estimated age
- between 25 and 30 years
- Height
- 155 cm Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
- Distinguishing marks
- recent pregnancy confirmed by autopsy Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
- Further information
- Death dates back to approximately 18 months before discovery.
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.
- Sources from the time clarify that the 'Miami' location given in the record is the Miami lido, a beach on Lake Orta at Orta San Giulio, where the body was found.
- The body was found without its head and hands; the head was recovered a month later, a few metres from the site of the initial discovery, near the Miami lido.
Articles and sources
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La donna decapitata
This piece places the discovery in July 1988 rather than on 26 June as reported by accounts from the time and by the record: there is a discrepancy on the exact month, the rest of the account matches. Three years after the event, the case remained unresolved.