The bodies of a couple that disappeared 75 years ago were found lying in the Diablerets massif in southern Switzerland along with backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch.
During routine maintenance on equipment near the Tsanfleuron glacier in the Swiss Alps last Thursday, an employee of the Swiss ski company Glacier 3000 saw a foot protruding from the ice. Upon closer inspection, he saw two other boots, a hat, and the blackened remains of a couple frozen in time.Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, once a provincial shoemaker and school teacher, had been missing for the past 75 years.
"He informed security, and I contacted the police," said Bernhard Tschannen, the company's CEO. By Friday a helicopter flew to the region, cutting a large chuck of the ice from the glacier to ensure the couple's remains were removed intact. By July 19, DNA confirmed the identities of the couple who went missing on August 15, 1942.
According to reports from local Swiss newspaper Le Matin, which first reported the find, these aren't the first bodies to have been pulled from the snowy region. Three brothers that disappeared in 1926 were later found in 2012; a climber who fell in 1954 was later recovered in 2008; and in 2008, a couple was lost in the mountain and later found in 2012.
Since 1925, 280 people have been listed as missing in the Alps or nearby regions.
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