Unidentified man, La Spezia, 17/02/2022
Reported as identified
Press reports state that this person has been identified. The official register has not updated the record. Source: La Nazione, 24 gennaio 2024: nominato nel corso di un'indagine collegata; l'articolo non specifica come sia stata accertata l'identita'.
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 17/02/2022
- Case file number
- 2900
- Place of recovery
- La Foce locality
- Municipality
- La Spezia
- Province
- La Spezia
- Region
- Liguria
- Sex
- Male
- Estimated age
- between 60 and 70 years
- Biogeographic ancestry
- Caucasian
- Presumed cause of death
- rupture of ingested cocaine pellet 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.
- Sources report that the body was that of a drug courier, who died when a swallowed cocaine packet ruptured and was later dismembered by an accomplice to recover it. On the occasion of the accomplice's arrest, in January 2024 in the Dominican Republic, sources name the victim.