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"For the first time, Interpol have released a list seeking information about 22 unidentified murdered women, whose names are a mystery. Anita is joined by BBC journalist Alice Cuddy to explain why this is happening, and forensic scientist Carina Van Leeuwen who is passionate about giving these women a name."
- Interviewer: "Why is it all women? Why are there no unidentified men?"
- Alice Cuddy: "There are actually more unidentified men who, erm ... male bodies, but police told us the difference is that those men died in a big range of circumstances whereas the women there, the vast majority of them [were] suspected murder cases. INTERPOL have also spoken a lot about how women take a risk of gender-based violence, including things like trafficking."
- Interviewer: "Why is finding the identity of these women so important?"
- Carina Van Leeuwen: "I think for 3 reasons. It's very important in the first place for the women themselves because if you don't have a name, you are just a number. You are buried in a nameless grave so nobody can tell your story. We can only tell the story of how they died but not how their life was. So that's in the first place for me. In the second place, I think it's very important for those who are left behind, their families who sometimes are looking, waiting for 20-25 years, they don't want to move because 'She's coming home, she doesn't know where we live'. And of course in the third er, in the last place, if we don't know who the victims [are], we can't find a perpetrator. So it's very important for those 3 reasons. [...] I am sure that even after 20-25 years they are still missed somewhere in the world."
- One of the women could be English. Found in a little boat, killed by fire. She lived for a while in the Netherlands and spoke only English.
- Carina Van Leeuwen: "To be missed is worse than to be dead, because then at least they [their families] know what's happened."
