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malaise

(267,784 posts)
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 07:06 PM Jul 2017

Frozen remains of missing Swiss couple found after 75 years

The frozen remains of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier, local media has reported.
Key points:

The two bodies were perfectly preserved with belongings and identity papers intact
Their youngest daughter is now 79 years old
Some 280 people have gone missing in the Alps or nearby rivers since 1925
Head of forensic medicine says as glaciers shrink, more findings of the sort are expected

Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to feed their cattle in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942.

"We spent our whole lives looking for them without stopping," their youngest daughter Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, 79, told the Lausanne daily Le Matin.

"We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day.

"I can say that after 75 years of waiting, this news gives me a deep sense of calm."

Valais cantonal police said in a statement that two bodies bearing identity papers had been discovered last week by a worker on Tsanfleuron glacier near a ski lift above Les Diablerets resort at an altitude of 2,615 metres.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-19/swiss-glacier-yields-bodies-of-couple-missing-75-years/8721954

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Frozen remains of missing Swiss couple found after 75 years (Original Post) malaise Jul 2017 OP
I wonder if there will be a post mortem Warpy Jul 2017 #1
What an amazing story malaise Jul 2017 #2

malaise

(267,784 posts)
2. What an amazing story
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 07:12 PM
Jul 2017

From the daughter's comments, I'm guessing she fell and he followed. Nice that a daughter is still alive.

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