2 Suitcases, Many Names: The Isdal Woman Is Still Unidentified | 1970

On November 29, 1970, a woman was found dead in Isdalen, near Bergen, Norway. Hotel records traced her under multiple names, and two suitcases left at Bergen's train station held wigs, foreign coins, and a coded note later partly deciphered; labels had been cut from her clothing. In 2017, an isotope analysis of her teeth suggested she may have spent her early childhood in southeastern Germany and moved west, possibly to northern France or the French-German border region, by adolescence. It narrowed a region, not a name.

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Sources:
- Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years - BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39369429
- 'Major breakthrough' in Norway's 46-year-old Isdal woman mystery - BBC News: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39978131
- The Isdal woman's many identities - BBC World Service: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3WRb0vGRSrgpZXW8nvskB11/the-isdal-womans-many-identities
- The coded notepad - BBC World Service: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1DWWslfP8RKW5TpBfXg67q2/the-coded-notepad
- Does this show where the Isdal woman grew up? - BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/17vMwn430cnrnKl93rfm9Sl/does-this-show-where-the-isdal-woman-grew-up
- Isdal Woman - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isdal_Woman

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