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Interpol identifies ‘Woman with the German keys’ 21 years after death

Eva Maria Pommer was identified after 21 years through DNA and a tip linked to keys from Bottrop, marking the fourth victim named by Interpol’s Operation Identify Me.

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Interpol said Friday it had identified a cold case victim nicknamed “The Woman with the German keys” more than two decades after her corpse was found at the Dutch seaside.

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It took a full 21 years, but now Dutch police finally know the identity of the dead woman found on the beach in Wassenaar, South Holland, in 2004. Because she had keys that pointed to the German region of Bottrop, she was known as "the woman with the German keys." The breakthrough came thanks to an Interpol campaign.

·Antwerp, Belgium
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In 2004 a woman was found in the dunes in the Netherlands. Now – more than 20 years later – the dead were identified. One thing is still not clear: why did Eva Maria Pommer have to die? A previously unknown death from the Netherlands has been identified as German after more than 20 years. She was the fourth dead person whose identity had been clarified in the course of a campaign that had been going on since 2023, Interpol and the German Federal…

·Vienna, Austria
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De Telegraaf broke the news in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Friday, October 10, 2025.
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