Police release digital image of mystery Sorrento beach woman in 1966 cold case

Detectives are appealing for public assistance to identify the dead woman found 57 years ago on the Mornington peninsula in Victoria

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Police have released a digitally generated image of an unknown woman found dead in the water at a Victorian beach 57 years ago in a bid to solve the mystery.

The woman's body was discovered floating in the water off Sorrento beach on the Mornington peninsula by passersby in the evening of 25 February 1966.

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