The discovery of a big-toenail has reopened the cold case of a woman who disappeared in 1999 and is believed to have been murdered and fed to pigs by a northern Italian pig farmer.
Virginia Mihai was the second, Romanian-born, wife of farmer Valerio Sperotto who died near Vicenza aged 64 in 2011.
The toenail's DNA is a 100% match with Mihai, sources said Friday.
Sperotto is also believed to have murdered his first wife, Elena Zecchinato, in 1988, and fed the body to his pigs.
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