On October 24, 1976, a forest ranger in Maasbergen, Netherlands came across the nude body of a young girl, lying under an array of leaves in a pit near a parking area off the A12. Dubbed Huel Girl, the victim was believed to be between twelve and fifteen years old, standing about five-foot-three with a slim build. She had long, straight, brown or auburn hair, and an oval face with a pointed chin. Her teeth were perfect, with no fillings or prior dental work. Authorities estimated that she had been dead for approximately three to six weeks.
Further examination of the remains suggested that the girl’s diet had been particularly poor in the months prior to her death, indicating that she had either been living in poverty or had been held captive and underfed. Isotope analysis also determined that she had likely lived in the German Eifel or Ruhr regions as a child and that she had spent the year prior to her murder in West Germany, Eastern Europe, or the Netherlands.
During the investigation, it came to light that multiple witnesses had seen the girl’s body being dumped by two men between thirty and forty years old, but neither man has been identified. The case was featured on several German crime programs, and in 2016, a joint inquiry between Germany and the Netherlands was announced, with a particular focus on identifying the girl via DNA. Though this has still yielded no result, in 2023, Interpol confirmed that Huel Girl’s case was part of Operation Identify Me, an investigation involving twenty-two unidentified women found dead in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany between 1976 and 2019.
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