52-year-old Woman missing 12 years found in woods
A 52-year-old German woman, whose name was undisclosed missing for 12 years has been found living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more than an umbrella & tarpaulin for shelter, police said Monday. Woman appeared to be healthy after living in the simple shelter near the community of Bolligen for the past year.
Bolligen’s Mayor Rudolf Burger said he was told about the woman on Thursday and found her the next day in the makeshift tent she had constructed.
“She answered our questions and told us she didn’t want any contact with her family,” he said.
She conversed normally, but she also spoke of a mission that she had to fulfill, Burger added. He declined to elaborate. Mosimann said it was unclear where the woman lived before she moved to the woods.
The woman was reported missing in 1997 in a village near Potsdam, Germany, outside Berlin. She was identified with the aid of an information system shared by the 25 member nations of the so-called Schengen accord enabling passport-free travel in Europe.
