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Bodies found on glacier identified as missing couple from 1942

Shoes and clothing are visible at a Swiss glacier where two bodies were found on July 14, 2017, at an altitude of 8,580 feet. On Wednesday, July 19,2017, police said the remains belonged to a couple that went missing nearly 75 years ago. (GLACIER 3000/Keystone via AP)
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BERLIN — Swiss police say they’ve formally identified two bodies found on an Alpine glacier as those of a couple missing for nearly 75 years.

Valais canton police said Wednesday that forensic experts using DNA analysis identified the two as Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife, Francine. They were 40 and 37, respectively, when they disappeared on Aug. 15, 1942.

The couple’s daughter, now 79, has said her parents set off on foot to feed their animals but never returned.

Police were alerted on Friday to the bodies on the Tsanfleuron glacier at 8,580 feet above sea level.

Regional police have a list going back to 1925 of missing people. They note that, because of climate change, bodies of people missing for decades regularly emerge from receding glaciers.

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