After 63 years they found a lost woman. She is whole and healthy
Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when on July 7, 1962 she disappeared from her home in the small city of Reedsburg. The woman was married and had two children at the time, and a few days before the disappearance she was to make a notification to the police about her husband abuse her. The man she married at only 15 years old was to beat her and threaten her death. That is why the case aroused the interest in the services from the beginning.
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Audrey left her husband and children and was lost
On the day of disappearance, Audrey left the house to pick up the check from the wool plant in which she worked. The 14-year-old babysitter of the couple told the police that she and Mrs. Backeberg hitchhiking to Madison, the capital of Wisconsin, and from there caught the bus to Indianapolis, Indiana, about 480 km away. There was a quarrel between women and Audrey was last seen as she moved away from the bus stop.
The office of the Sauk Sheriff’s Sheriff said that investigators checked numerous clues in the investigation, but the matter overwhelmed over the years. Until the beginning of 2025, when a comprehensive review of old case file was carried out. Recently, after the matter again, after 63 years the mystery of the disappearance of Mrs. Backeberg was solved.
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After 63 years, the police found the missing
Detective Isaac Hanson, who dissolved the case, told the local Wisn television station that a key role in finding a woman had an online account of ancestors belonging to the sister Mrs. Backeberg. Details of the case are not known. We only know that Audrey Backeberg, today 82-year-old, was found outside Wisconsin, whole and healthy. Detective Hanson said he contacted the local sheriff, where Mrs. Backeberg currently lives, and talked to her on the phone for 45 minutes.
In the statement of the sheriff of Sauk, Chip Meister, said that the disappearance of Mrs. Backeberg « was her own choice and was not the result of any criminal activity or unfair game. »
– I think she just withdrew, left from some stories, just did her job and led her life. On the phone she sounded happy. Certain of your decision. I don’t regret it – said Wisn Detective Hanson.
(Source: BBC)
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After 63 years, she was found all and healthy.