Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to The Unseen Podcast, a podcast
Speaker 1: dedicated to missing people, unresolved cases and UK true crime.
Speaker 1: Today's day three of twelve days of missing person episodes
Speaker 1: throughout December. Today we're going to be covering the twenty
Speaker 1: seventeen disappearance of thirty seven year old Stefana Ottilia Malinicci,
Speaker 1: who disappeared from her home. Her two daughters have grown
Speaker 1: up without their mother and need some answers as to
Speaker 1: what happened to her. This episode is about a missing
Speaker 1: person and so does not contain any graphic details, but
Speaker 1: listener discretion is always advised. Barking is a town in
Speaker 1: East London and sits within the London borough of Barking
Speaker 1: and Dagenham. It has a population of a two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty thousand and has been under regeneration for a
Speaker 1: number of years due to the high level of deprivation
Speaker 1: within the town center. Beckel's Drive sits just outside the
Speaker 1: town center and is made up of a series of
Speaker 1: semi detached and terrace houses. Thirty seven year old Stefania
Speaker 1: Ottilia Malinicci lived on Beckel's Drive in twenty seventeen. Stephania
Speaker 1: went by Attilia and was originally from Romania before settling
Speaker 1: in London. Attilia had a husband and was the mother
Speaker 1: of two daughters. She worked as a cleaner in the
Speaker 1: capital and was known by her family and friends as
Speaker 1: someone that always looked out for others and cared about
Speaker 1: the people around her, even looking out for strangers. She
Speaker 1: was a loving and caring mother and someone who was
Speaker 1: very much loved by her family. On the sixth of
Speaker 1: September twenty seventeen, Attilia left her home on Beckle's Drive.
Speaker 1: There was nothing at all unusual about this, however, it
Speaker 1: was the fact that Attilia never returned to her home.
Speaker 1: This was certainly out of character for her, and her
Speaker 1: family were quickly worried about what could have happened. They
Speaker 1: believed it was so out of character that they decided
Speaker 1: to contact the Metropolitan Police to report her as a
Speaker 1: missing person. When Attilia had still not returned several days
Speaker 1: after she'd last been seen on the sixth, her family
Speaker 1: grew increasingly worried. The police issued a description along with
Speaker 1: what she had last been seen wearing when she left
Speaker 1: that day. Attilia was described as having reddish hair in
Speaker 1: a sharp bob style. At the time, she disappeared. She
Speaker 1: was wearing a black top with a large light colored motif,
Speaker 1: dark tight gianes or leggins tucked into flat dark mid
Speaker 1: calf length boots, and a dark colored three quarter length
Speaker 1: fitted jacket. Police also issued an appeal for anyone that
Speaker 1: might have seen her after she left home that day,
Speaker 1: while also indicating that Attilia was classed as a vulnerable
Speaker 1: person and so finding her was a priority for them.
Speaker 1: Officers began to investigate in the areas surrounding Beckel's Drive
Speaker 1: and Barking, including looking at CCTV in the areas where
Speaker 1: Attilia may have visited. By looking through CCTV, police were
Speaker 1: able to find some images of Attilia after the sixth
Speaker 1: of September. On the ninth of September, CCTV showed her
Speaker 1: entering a shop on Green Lane in Ilford. Green Lane
Speaker 1: was around two miles from Beckle's Drive, where Attilia lived.
Speaker 1: It's unclear why Attilia was here three days after she
Speaker 1: left her home. There has also been little reported about
Speaker 1: this sighting. Aside from a still image which can be
Speaker 1: seen on the Missing People website, it's clear that she
Speaker 1: was still quite close to home three days after her disappearance.
Speaker 1: Police also stated that they believed she may have bordered
Speaker 1: the number five boss from Wood Lane in Dagenham the
Speaker 1: following day, on the tenth of September, at around ten
Speaker 1: fourteen pm. Wood Lane is around two point six miles
Speaker 1: from Beckle's Drive, where she lived, and around one point
Speaker 1: seven miles from Green Lane, where she had been spotted
Speaker 1: the day before. This information about the boss that Attilia
Speaker 1: had taken is very specific, including the ten fourteen pm time,
Speaker 1: and again it's unclear where it came from. However, it
Speaker 1: could be speculated that this came from a witness sighting.
Speaker 1: Both of the pieces of information indicate that Attilia had
Speaker 1: not traveled far from her home in the days after
Speaker 1: she disappeared. Since the ninth of September, there have been
Speaker 1: no verified sightings of Attilia, and since the tenth of
Speaker 1: September there has been no more information about her possible whereabouts.
Speaker 1: She has now been missing for over eight years, and
Speaker 1: there has been very little published about any progress made
Speaker 1: on her case. It seems as though she disappeared into
Speaker 1: thin air. What could have possibly happened to her in
Speaker 1: the days following the ninth of September. Attilia left behind
Speaker 1: a husband and two daughters, a family in both the
Speaker 1: UK and Romania, and it's clear she was a loved
Speaker 1: member of this family. Her daughter's appealed in May of
Speaker 1: this for information that could lead to finding their mum.
Speaker 1: They had to grow up without her in their life
Speaker 1: and this has had a huge impact on them. They
Speaker 1: just want answers to the many questions that they have.
Speaker 1: In their statement to the public, they said, it's now
Speaker 1: been more than seven years without our mother. We've grown
Speaker 1: up without her and miss her every day. She always
Speaker 1: brings support and love for anyone who needs it, even strangers,
Speaker 1: and she always tries to cheer people up. We appeal
Speaker 1: to the public for anyone to come forward if they
Speaker 1: know anything about her or her whereabouts. We also appeal
Speaker 1: to her directly, please return home to us. Detective Chief
Speaker 1: Inspector cam Sody from the Metropolitan Police's East Area Public
Speaker 1: Prosecution Unit said it's now more than seven years since
Speaker 1: Attilia was reported missing and we are continuing our work
Speaker 1: to find out where she is. While there's no evidence
Speaker 1: to suggest that Attilia has come to physical harm, we
Speaker 1: cannot rule this out. Her family here in the UK
Speaker 1: and in Romania are still carrying on their daily lives
Speaker 1: without knowing where their loved one is. Her daughters have
Speaker 1: grown up without their mother, So we urge anyone who
Speaker 1: may know Attilia or where she is to come forward
Speaker 1: without further delay. We ask anyone who has provided shelter
Speaker 1: or support to Attilia to also please contact police, even
Speaker 1: if this was not recently, We want to hear from you.
Speaker 1: It's clear from the police statement that they don't have
Speaker 1: evidence that anything has happened to Attilia or that she
Speaker 1: has been harmed. However, they also do not have any
Speaker 1: evidence as to her whereabouts and without this they of
Speaker 1: course cannot give any definitive answers to her family. It's
Speaker 1: so crucial that these cases are discussed and that Attilia
Speaker 1: is not forgotten. Someone out there may have the key
Speaker 1: to the case without even knowing it. I will link
Speaker 1: Attilia's Missing People profile in the show notes. If you
Speaker 1: know anything about the disappearance of Stefania Ottilia Malinicci, please
Speaker 1: contact police on one oh one. Our contact Missing People
Speaker 1: through their website linked in the show notes. Thank you
Speaker 1: for listening to day three of twelve Days of Missing
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