‘One Night Mum & Dad Left To Milk The Cows.. They Never Came Home’ – Daughter Of Couple Found Frozen In A Swiss Glacier 75 YEARS After They Vanished

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This handout picture distributed on July 18, 2017 by the Swiss cable cars company Glacier 3000 shows the mummified remains of a Swiss Couple who went missing 75 years ago and who were found in a glacier in the Diablerets mountains, in southern Switzerland. The perfectly preserved bodies lay close to each other, with at their side backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch, the director of the ski area Glacier 3000, Bernard Tschannen told the daily newspaper Le Matin. An employee of the ski resort found the two frozen corpses on July 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Glacier 3000 / handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Glacier 3000 " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS HANDOUT/AFP/Getty Images — This handout picture distributed on July 18, 2017 by the Swiss cable cars company Glacier 3000 shows the mummified remains of a Swiss Couple who went missing 75 years ago and who were found in a glacier in the Diablerets mountains, in southern Switzerland.
The perfectly preserved bodies lay close to each other, with at their side backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch, the director of the ski area Glacier 3000, Bernard Tschannen told the daily newspaper Le Matin. An employee of the ski resort found the two frozen corpses on July 13, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Glacier 3000 / handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE – MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / Glacier 3000 ” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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The daughter of a couple whose remains were found perfectly preserved in a receding glacier 75 years after they vanished has revealed how the mystery left her orphaned and separated from her six siblings.

Monique Gautschy-Dumoulin, (left), was 11 when she waved goodbye to her parents for the last time on August 15, 1942. Marcelin Dumoulin, a 40-year-old shoemaker, and his wife Francine, 37, (inset), left their village in Chandolin, Switzerland to milk their cows in a meadow.

They never returned. Now 86, their eldest daughter Monique told how the mystery had cast a shadow over her life. For nearly eight decades their disappearance remained a mystery. Now 81, their daughter Monique, pictured, said the mystery cast a shadow over her life.

Last Thursday their perfectly preserved bodies were found next to each other in the Diablerets massif on the Tsanfleuron glacier in southern Switzerland, right, along with their identity cards, backpacks, a bottle, a book and a watch they had with them.