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The Mystery of the Nameless Girl Found Dead in a Spanish Border Town

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On September 4, 1990, the discovery of a girl hanging from a pine tree rocked the small Spanish Mediterranean town of Portbou. She was barefoot and wearing blue dungarees, and the look on her face was peaceful, almost angelic. “It looked very much like a suicide,” writes Giles Tremlett, “but there were many questions.” How did she climb the tree and physically do it? Who was she? “She carried no ID, no passport, no money, no wallet, no train tic…

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On a late summer morning, 35 years ago, the body of a young woman was discovered hanging from a tree in a small town on the border between France and Spain. She had no documents, money or wallet with her, as if someone had intentionally erased her identity. The first answers about the victim's name and the circumstances of her disappearance only emerged decades later, but to this day, it is still unknown what really happened the night the myster…

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Longreads broke the news in on Monday, April 21, 2025.
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