Couple Missing Since WW2 Are Discovered In Melting Glacier With Remains Preserved

Jan 29, 2020 by apost team

A family from Switzerland finally has the closure that they have been seeking for the last 75 years after two bodies were found in a melting ice glacier. 

Back in 1942, Marcelline Udry-Dumoulin became an orphan when her two beloved parents went missing according to Swiss Info. The 79-year-old woman was only four years old when her parents left their home and never returned.

“We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day,” she said to the Lausanne daily Le Matin cited by The Guardian.

Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin went to the meadow above their house in Valais, Switzerland, so that they could milk their cows. The couple went missing on August 15, 1942, and were never seen from again.

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Recently, an employee of the Glacier 3000 ski resort on the Tsanfleuron glacier found the bodies of the couple. “From afar, it looked like small rocks, but there were too many in the same place,” said the station resort director Bernhard Tschannen to Swiss Info.

The glacier had finally melted enough to uncover the Dumoulin couple. Tschannen also said that the bodies were found lying next to each other and confirmed that the couple was still wearing their World War II-era clothing. The glacier had perfectly preserved the bodies.

The Swiss News station reports that authorities now believe that the couple fell into a crevice during their journey. It was not until the glacier had receded, that they were visible enough to be discovered. Udry-Dumoulin told Lausanne daily Le Matin cited by The Guardian,

"I can say that after 75 years of waiting for this news gives me a deep sense of calm." She added, "For the funeral, I won’t wear black. I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost.”

Be sure to spread the news of this amazing discovery to everyone else that you know. We are sure that Udry-Dumoulin is so relieved to have finally solved the mystery of her missing parents so that she can finally put them to rest.