✝️ Natalija Ivanova, age 27, russian – January 29 2000, Randers, Denmark 🇩🇰💔
Natalija was russian, but lived in Latvia. She was mother of a six year old son, who lived with her mother in Riga in a very poor neighborhood. The mother believed Natalija went to Denmark to marry a man she had met and did not know she was lured to Denmark by traffickers.
Natalija was murdered with several stabs with a bread knife in the brothel she was prostituted in.
Natalija`s mother could not afford to pay the transport of Nataljia`s remains to Riga, so Kurt Kjær from the Funeral Home Patterns Eftf. in Randers decided to bring her there on her expenses.
DNA and fingerprints were found at the crime scene, but more than 2000 interrogations did not lead to success in terms of finding the perpetrator.
The double-murder of Natalija and Bang-On Nielsen led to an extensive investigation uncovering large scale human trafficking of eastern european women to Denmark. Eight charges against traffickers were brought to court.