The Jigsaw Skeleton

In 2007, a small fire along Rome's Tiber River led investigators to a near-complete human skeleton arranged with disturbing precision beside the ID of a man who had been missing for four years. DNA testing revealed the impossible: the bones belonged to five different people, collected across two decades. Someone built a person out of strangers and left a name next to it. The Jigsaw Skeleton of Rome is one of the most unsettling and least-known cold cases in modern forensic history. Unsolved Rome mystery, composite skeleton, forensic cold case, Libero Ricci missing, Magliana crime, Italy true crime, unexplained death.