Umm..I think there wasn't a $50 million bounty on her head. On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you think about this story? > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28735791/?GT1=43001 > > BERN, Switzerland - A German woman missing for 12 years has been found > living in the woods on the outskirts of the Swiss capital with nothing more > than an umbrella and tarpaulin for shelter, police said Monday. > > The 52-year-old woman, whose name was undisclosed, appeared to be healthy > after living in the simple shelter near the community of Bolligen for the > past year. > > Even the ranger who makes regular checks of the woods had failed to notice > her before a hiker told police this month that he had seen a woman living > there, said Juerg Mosimann, spokesman for the Bern police. > 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. > > She is still living there, but the Bolligen Citizens Community that owns the > woods will soon tell her she will have to leave, said community clerk > Andreas Kohli. > > "There's no point in waiting for months," Kohli said. "We are looking for an > appropriate place for the woman in cooperation with the social services of > Bolligen and the government of Bern." > > 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. > > >
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