Unidentified man, Laion (Bolzano), 19/02/2008

Reported as identified

Press reports state that this person has been identified. The official register has not updated the record. Source: la Repubblica, 2 luglio 2025: identificazione arrivata diciassette anni dopo, nell'ambito dell'indagine che ha risolto il caso.

Data shown in the record

Date of recovery: 19/02/2008
Case file number: 2676
Place of recovery: Brennero motorway, near Chiusa (BZ)
Municipality: Laion
Province: Bolzano
Region: Trentino Alto Adige
Sex: Male
Estimated age: 30 years
Biogeographic ancestry: Caucasian
Clothing: Work dungarees, light colored ribbed sweater, shoes NR. 45

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Open lead

The identification of this case, in 2025, was reported by at least nine national and local outlets besides those cited below, but those pages cannot be reached by automated tools. Anyone wishing to reconstruct the full story can look for July 2025 coverage of the discovery along the A22 motorway.

Articles and sources

Salma decapitata in A22 trovata testa 17 anni dopo

la Repubblica, 3 July 2025

Concerns the same case as the article of 2 July 2025; here too the victim is identified as the twenty-year-old Mustafa Sahin.
L'incredibile cold case: uccideva i fidanzati della figlia e di uno nascose la testa in un giardino in Germania

la Repubblica, 2 July 2025

The discovery date given by the article, 21 February 2008, differs by two days from the one in the record, 19 February 2008; the victim's age, 20 years, is lower than that estimated in the record, 30 years. The identification dates to 2025 and started from the confession of the killer, already detained in Germany for two other murders; the DNA test on the remains was under way at the time of publication.

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