Unidentified man, San Miniato (Pisa), 16/01/1983
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 16/01/1983
- Case file number
- 23
- Place of recovery
- Arno river, San Donato
- Municipality
- San Miniato
- Province
- Pisa
- Region
- Toscana
- Sex
- Male
- Height
- 158 cm
- Hair colour
- White
- Distinguishing marks
- Fixed dental prosthesis in gold/porcelain with bone implant system, uncommon at the time. Almost complete toothlessness
- Clothing
- Dark wool trousers, grey socks, red crew neck long sleeved t-shirt, burgundy suspenders, white short sleeved undershirt with label "MARINER MADE IN FRANCE", underwear with the same label, size 2, black loafers, size 39/40, "CARLO BENIGNO ITALY",
- Personal effects
- Seiko quartz watch, light blue handkerchief with the letter "A"
- Presumed cause of death
- Drowning
- Further information
- Death occurred a few weeks before the finding, mature or elderly age, good quality clothing Previous version of the register: Morte risale a qualche settimana, eta' matura o senile, prima del ritrovamento , abiti di buona qualita'- presenza di protesi dentaria fissa in oro/porcellana col sistema dell'impianto osseo, poco comune all'epoca. Per il resto, quasi completa edendulia.
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Open lead
On 14 October 2020 Il Tirreno published an article, by Alessandro Bientinesi, on the eight unidentified bodies found in the province of Pisa since 1983, the year of this discovery at San Donato. The text is restricted to subscribers: only the general introduction can be read, which confirms the count of eight cases but does not list them individually. Anyone with subscriber access, or a saved copy of the piece, could check whether the San Donato case of 16 January 1983 is among those mentioned.
Notes on this record
What emerges when the official register data are compared with press sources.
- An article by Il Tirreno (2020) on eight bodies never identified in the province of Pisa, starting precisely from 1983, the year of this discovery, exists: the text is subscriber-only and it was not possible to verify whether it cites this case.