Unidentified person, San Lazzaro di Savena (Bologna), 11/01/2022
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 11/01/2022
- Case file number
- 2901
- Place of recovery
- Idice stream Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
- Municipality
- San Lazzaro di Savena
- Province
- Bologna
- Region
- Emilia Romagna
- Distinguishing marks
- Maxillofacial surgery. Metal plate installed in the mandible bone with screws
- Clothing
- Elastic fragment of underwear (presumably boxer shorts) with "ERMAN" label, a pair of black knee-high socks
- Personal effects
- Steel case-back belonging to a watch case with "STAINLESS STEEL BACK BASE METAL" written on it, fragment of black leather strap
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 remains were estimated to date back no more than about fifteen years before discovery (January 2022); the detail of the metal jaw plate was circulated to missing-persons associations to assist identification (Il Resto del Carlino).
Articles and sources
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Bologna, dallo scheletro primi indizi. Placca metallica in bocca
Investigators shared the detail of the metal plate with associations for missing persons to assist identification; the remains were estimated to be no older than about fifteen years.
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Trovato scheletro a Bologna, mistero lungo il fiume
The skeleton, almost complete, was found enclosed in a black sack together with a blanket along the torrente Idice by a municipal worker working on the embankment.