Presumed dead, a man had actually been living quietly in another country for 18 years. His wife reported him missing in 2004.
If some disappearances end in macabre discoveries, as was the case for Noé, other cases are still pending, as currently for Leslie and Kevin. The details revealed on various facts are often chilling, like the house of horror, but this is not what characterizes the investigation into this cold box.
A man and his wife had been living in Spain for several years and had both opened a car business. But in 2004, while the husband was doing a trip to Munich in Germany for a business trip, he no longer gives any sign of life. Worried, his wife reports his disappearance but he is not found.
Investigators reconstruct his journey to Constance, a town on the Swiss border, then nothing. They think at that time that he could have been assassinated or that he committed suicide.
What’s next after this ad
Missing man found 18 years later
But a police check in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland makes it possible to make the link between the man who disappeared in 2004 and a person controlled years later. They then inform the Spanish authorities but it is only a few years later that German police create a “cold cases” center and confirmed the identity of the man in question.
For its part, Switzerland has confirmed that the latter still lives in Schwyz, but he won’t be worriedconfirm Sudkurier and 20 minutes. The individual only gave permission to inform his wife that he is still alive.
The German commissioner in charge of investigations clarified: “If someone leaves his old life behind, it does not concern usit’s private and we don’t ask questions”.
The presumed missing man therefore lived peacefully in Switzerland for 18 years, when his wife thought he was dead. Happy ending or sad ending? Your turn to judge…