{"id":2226,"date":"2025-03-20T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/transcontinental-cold-case-solved-as-victim-dubbed-woman-in-the-chicken-coop-is-identified\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T21:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:37:52","slug":"transcontinental-cold-case-solved-as-victim-dubbed-woman-in-the-chicken-coop-is-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/transcontinental-cold-case-solved-as-victim-dubbed-woman-in-the-chicken-coop-is-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcontinental cold case solved as victim dubbed “woman in the chicken coop” is identified"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A campaign to solve unexplained cold cases marked its first transcontinental success on Thursday with the police agency Interpol reporting<\/a> it identified a Paraguayan woman found hanged in Spain in 2018.<\/p>\n

The France-based agency in a statement named the 33-year-old victim, previously known only as “the woman in the chicken coop,” as Ainoha Izaga Ibieta Lima.<\/p>\n

It hailed the discovery as “the first successful trans-continental identification” in the global agency’s “Identify Me” campaign to identify<\/a><\/span>\u00a0more than 40 women found dead in six European countries over recent decades. Interpol has been seeking public help to put names to the missing women.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said that identification would mean they no longer have to identify the victims by their distinguishing features or apparel, such as “the woman with the flower tattoo<\/a>” and “the woman with the artificial nails<\/a>.” Other names include the locations where their remains were discovered like “the woman in the canal<\/a>” and “the woman in the suitcase<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Izaga’s brother reported her disappearance in 2019 and told investigators she had left Paraguay in 2013 for Spain.<\/p>\n

She was found hanged on a farm in Girona, northeastern Spain, in August 2018.<\/p>\n

There was nothing on her to identify her and the farm’s inhabitants and neighbours did not know who she was or where she was from.<\/p>\n

After the launch of the Interpol appeal in 2023, Paraguayan authorities in March 2025 matched her fingerprints, supplied by Spain, to ones in their records.<\/p>\n

The campaign claimed its first European success in November 2023 when authorities identified Rita Roberts, a British woman found murdered in Antwerp, Belgium in 1992. Relatives recognized her by a tattoo.<\/p>\n

Interpol Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza said in the statement that the campaign<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was “about restoring dignity to victims and giving a voice to those affected by tragedy”.<\/p>\n

Forty-five of the cases in the “Identify Me”<\/a> files remain unsolved.<\/p>\n

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