Unidentified man, Toirano (Savona), 15/06/1984
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 15/06/1984
- Case file number
- 2819
- Place of recovery
- Varatella stream Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
- Municipality
- Toirano
- Province
- Savona
- Region
- Liguria
- Sex
- Male
- Estimated age
- 45 years Previous version of the register: 0 Register value corrected on the basis of a press source cited below.
- Distinguishing marks
- metal plate on the femur, fixed with seven screws, result of surgical intervention; right femur, plate approximately 22 cm long Previous version of the register: placca metallica al femore, fissata con sette viti, esito di intervento chirurgico Register value corrected on the basis of a press source cited below.
- Clothing
- none Not present in the official register; added from a press source cited below.
- Presumed cause of death
- homicide 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.
- The record gives 15 June 1984 as the date: articles from the time place the discovery of the body on Sunday 3 June 1984, twelve days earlier.
- The article of 13 June 1984 estimates an apparent age of between 45 and 55 years, against the single value of 45 years given in the record.
- The case was also followed by Interpol over a possible connection with the German federal police; the file was never recorded as closed.
Articles and sources
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Omicidi savonesi, Roberto Nicolick ricorda il ritrovamento de "L'ignoto decapitato al Salto del lupo"
The article places the event in the 'first days of June 1984' and notes that the case, also followed by Interpol for a possible connection with the German federal police, was never solved.
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Toirano, attraverso una protesi identificato l'uomo decapitato?
More than a week after discovery the victim, apparent age between 45 and 55 years, is still not identified; the search continues through the femoral prosthesis.
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L'uomo del «Salto del lupo» fu decapitato vivo
The autopsy established that the man, apparent age 50-60, was decapitated while still alive; in the right femur, a 22 cm metal plate fixed with 7 screws, probably the result of surgery.
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Trovato il corpo senza testa di un uomo
Naked and decapitated body found by two fishermen along the torrente Varatella, near a bridge on the provinciale Borghetto-Bardineto, in the territory of Toirano.
Original record
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