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Woman Murdered in France in 2005 Identified Through International Police Campaign; Suspect Arrested

French police have identified Hakima Boukerouis, a 34-year-old Algerian-born woman whose mutilated body was discovered in a concealed water butt in northeastern France in January 2005. A suspect has been arrested — the first time since Operation Identify Me was launched in 2023. Police used familial DNA searching to identify Boukerouis, who was previously known only as 'the woman with the Richmond dental crown' due to expensive dental work believed to have been carried out in Germany. She is the fifth woman identified through the Interpol campaign seeking to name women who died in suspicious circumstances across six European countries.