Couple who went missing during WWII are found preserved in melting glacier 75 years later
Missing persons are never not heartbreaking to hear about. It’s a nightmare to be separated, lost, and scared. It ain’t any better for the people looking for you either, who’re probably worried sick.
Typically, missing people are found a few years or so later – alive or not.
Most of the time, missing people are found within 24 hours despite how scary it usually sounds. Though can you imagine a person being missing for 75 whole years?
We know Marceline Udry-Dumoulin can. The people in question were no other than her parents, who went missing in a Swiss mountain range during World War II. Their names were Francin Dumoulin and Marceline Dumoulin (evidently, she was named after her mom).
Marceline was no older than 4 when her parents never came home.
The Swiss mountains and the war were the worst combination of factors you could possibly ask for. Mountain ranges are notorious for people going missing. Throw in the conflict of war, and it’s easy to lose all hope. Marceline and her siblings had to be separated and raised in different households and families since then.
But 75 years later, it looks like Marceline’s family can stop searching now.
The Swiss alps have shrunk in some parts, and a ski-lift worker in the region stumbled upon something startling. He found the bodies of a man and a woman, mummified from the ice and resting there since
These mountains are pretty big, however. No random pair of remains can be confidently identified without some forensic digging. Part of me wonders how that ski-lift worker must have felt when he found a pair of bodies on his normal job.
People go missing in mountains pretty often, though. Maybe he wasn’t too surprised?
But news of random people’s remains never stays on the down-low for too long. The police were informed about the discovery, and it didn’t take much longer before an investigation of their identity was carried out.
This is what missing person registries are for. What is lost usually ends up found, even if it takes a while.
Missing person registries in Switzerland were informed, and the ever-important DNA tests finally started happening.
Marceline and her family were floored. The couple was indeed her long-missing parents, and she and her siblings were as overjoyed and happy as seniors can be. Marceline herself is nearing her 80s now. That’s a lot of decades to live without parents.
But their family could rest now, and nothing’s more important than that. A proper Catholic funeral could be arranged, and their mother and father’s souls can rest knowing that their children found them again.
I hope they thanked the ski-lift guy.
A tragedy in the 1940s, decades of searching, an accidental discovery, and a satisfying conclusion – the tale of Marceline and Francin Dumoulin is quite the story.
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