Drones, sniffer dogs, hundreds of helpers and helicopters failed in the search for a missing 64-year-old from Walding. The woman disappeared without a trace during a walk with her husband on June 30. The floodgates are now open to speculation.
Rarely has such an effort been made in days, but now the search for Helga W. (64) from Walding has officially ended. “We will of course continue to look when we are in the area, but the last major search took place on July 5,” says Martin Trautwein from the Grünau im Almtal mountain rescue service. The helpers, most recently 100 police, fire brigade and mountain rescue teams with 15 sniffer dogs, record every step in detail, so that you know which paths have already been taken in the vast Almtal.
Woman was never seen
It is not possible to search everything, but the helpers do not assume that Helga W. has strayed far from the paths that lead from the Almtalerhaus to the Welser Hütte. As reported, she had planned the tour together with her husband (62) and the couple left together from the Almtalerhaus on June 30. But only the 62-year-old was seen by other hikers.
The husband raised the alarm
In an interview with the “Krone”, Waldinger confirmed that the couple quickly separated, and acquaintances in Walding also know that he wanted to move on quickly. When his wife did not arrive at the Welser Hütte, he turned around that evening and raised the alarm.
Mobile phone tracked only once
But apart from a brief log-in from her two-week-old mobile phone to the only radio tower in the area on the night of her disappearance, there is no trace of the mother of two. Now speculation about her whereabouts is wide open. But the police have no doubts about the version. The investigators remain informed and will look again in small groups when time permits.
Death certificate possible after ten years at the earliest
This leaves the relatives with great uncertainty about what happened to the woman and mother. Legally, Helga W. is considered missing and can only be declared dead ‘after more than ten years of uninformed absence’. In such cases, legal ‘proof of death’ is only possible if witnesses have observed an accident or if the missing person was demonstrably in danger of death at the time of the disappearance – for example in a disaster area.
Source: Krone
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