Les Diablerets, Switzerland – On August 15, 1942, Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin went missing while tending to their cows in the mountain pastures near Chandolin in Valais, Switzerland. The couple, who were a 40-year-old shoemaker and a 37-year-old teacher, were parents to 7 children. Despite multiple search efforts, the two were never found – until now.
In July 2017 – almost 75 years after the Dumoulins went missing – a worker at Glacier 3000 “found some backpacks, tin bowls and a glass bottle, as well as male and female shoes, and part of a body under the ice” near the ski lift at approximately 2615 meters (8600 feet) on the shrinking Tsanfleuron Glacier above the Les Diablerets resort in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland (BBC.com). According to Reuters.com, the two bodies were “bearing identity papers.”
The mummified remains of the man and woman and their belongings were well preserved in the ice of the shrinking glacier. Authorities will conduct a DNA test to confirm their identities. Hopefully this find will bring closure to the 5 sons and 2 daughters of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin.
Swiss glacier reveals couple lost in 1942 https://t.co/vmSXKcqxcg
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 18, 2017
