The Lung on the Beach: How Spain Erased Romina's Last Trace
The Lung on the Beach: How Spain Erased Romina's Last Trace
A single human lung washed up on a Canary Islands shore on January 5, 2019 - the only piece of Romina Celeste Núñez Rodríguez ever recovered, later destroyed by an administrative error at the Institute of Legal Medicine. The lung’s DNA match was confirmed on February 21, 2019, but by then the rest of her body was gone and the state had already erased the last trace; how did routine failures let this happen?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from Romina’s arrival in Spain in 2010 to the moment a tourist found the lung at Las…
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