Bodies of woman and baby, both unidentified, found in Rome park.
Rome police have released images of tattoos on the body of a woman found dead on Saturday in Villa Pamphilj, the largest park in the capital, in a bid to identify her.
The woman’s body was found in a rubbish bag under bushes on Saturday evening, a few hours after passersby discovered the body of a baby girl in undergrowth a few hundred metres away.
The results of DNA tests, released by police on Tuesday, confirmed that the woman was the mother of the baby.
Appealing to the public to help identify the woman, police said she was aged between 20 and 30, with fair skin, 164 centimetres tall and weighing 58 kilos.
The images of several tattoos shared by police include a surfboard carried by a skeleton, stylised bird wings with a red design, and intertwined leaves with a hanging star in the middle.
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Initial autopsy results showed no injuries on the body of the woman however the baby, aged between six months and one year, may have been strangled the night before the macabre discovery.
The woman, whose body was in an advanced state of decomposition, is believed to have died several days before the baby.
Police are working on the assumption that the deceased woman was the mother of the baby and that they had been sleeping rough inside the park.
The woman’s fingerprints did not match any results in the police database, leading investigators to suspect they were foreigners, possibly from eastern or northern Europe.
The investigation continues as police seek to clarify the exact causes and dates of death.
