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*search over* ~ Nepal: SABINE GRUENEKLEE († 15 Oct. 2005, Nagarjun Forest)
THE SEARCH IS OVER...
On Febr. 11, 2006 human remains that were later identified to belong to Sabine,were discovered on the edge of a cliff in Nagarjun Forest.
Edit November '05 In the meantime Sabine's disappearance really looks "grim".
She vanished from the same location 6 weeks later as French tourist Céline Henry did. Many of their personal belongings have meanwhile been found back scattered all over the place. But both women are still officially missing.
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German national Sabine Grueneklee, 31 years old, disappeared since Saturday 15th October 2005. She was last seen that day in "Nagarjun Forest" aka "Rani Ban", a few miles n-west of Kathmandu.
More detailed information and photos on the special webpage for Sabine.
www.hasenfus.com/sabine
Special Missing Person-webpage on the website of the NEPAL POLICE:
http://www.nepalpolice.gov.np/missing_person.php
To e-mail Sabine's sister: sanni-grueneklee@gmx.de
To e-mail Sabine's boyfriend: doolanpeter@yahoo.co.uk
To e-mail Sabine's closest girlfriend: c.haupt@btech.de
To e-mail the German Embassy in Kathmandu: info@kathmandu.diplo.de
A long discussion about the two Nagarjun Forest disappearances took place here:
Thorn Tree webforum.
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Investigations into both disappearances going on
Among other newsmedia (in English) that start to publish now about the disappearances of both women, Sabine and Céline, especially the article in the latest edition of The Nepali Times, published December 9, stands out.
http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue276/nation.htm
Fortunately articles on The Nepali Times-website tend to stay online for at least several years. So what follows here are a few quotes just to give you an idea. Please click above link to read the whole article yourself. Investigations are véry much still continuing, of course.
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Celine and Sabine
Police have few leads on the suspected murders of two European women on Nagarjun
DHRUBA SIMKHADA
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The Nagarjun Forest on the western rim of the valley used to be a royal hunting reserve and serves as a nature sanctuary. Tourist guidebooks mention the reserve as an ideal spot for birdwatching and to acclimatise before a trek. There is a Buddhist shrine on the 2,600m summit, which the Newars call Jamacho. Pilgrims make the two-hour climb from the base of the hill during the frequent festivals held there.
The 16 sq km forest has a high perimeter wall and has served as a retreat for generations of kings, who have held special meetings there. The gate is guarded by a unit of the Royal Nepali Army. A dirt road snakes to the top and on weekends there are up to 50 visitors, some on motorcycles and cars.
There have been incidents on Nagarjun before. Six months ago, a German woman was mugged and gave a description of her attacker to police. Investigators are certain they are dealing with a serial killer who raped and killed the women and then buried them somewhere in the reserve. “Whoever did this knows the place very well and by scattering the items all over the park is taunting the police, which is the typical psychology of a killer who will strike again,” says one official involved in the investigation.
[. . .]
TIMELINE
03 September Celine Henri leaves hotel and signs Nagarjun register at 12.05PM
07 October Henri’s family notifies the French Embassy
15 October French Embassy finds Henri’s name on Nagarjun register
15 October Sabine Gruneklee signs Nagarjun logbook at 10.20 AM
16 October French Ambassador Michel Jolivet finds what he thinks are Henri’s effects
18 October Gruneklee’s friend Peter Dulan reports her missing
20 November Gruneklee’s name is also found on Nagarjun register
24 November French team finds Henri’s and Gruneklee’s items all over the mountain
01 December German Police team arrives with sniffer dogs
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2003 © Mercantile Communications Pvt. Ltd.
And in addition there is a long article now in The Telegraph.co.uk (published December 10), entitled: "Missing women may be victims of Nepal serial killer"
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No, she is no longer "missing"; officially, that is...
Time to post the announcement, now on the special website for SABINE GRUENEKLEE:
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New on 22.02.2006
Update, a note from the Grüneklee family:
Dear friends,
it is difficult to put into words what has happened, and even more difficult to describe what we feel. No words can describe the pain and sorrow we feel. The exhausting search and the time of hope and uncertainty have come to an end. Sabine went on a big journey, her dream. Unfortunately she will never tell us about it. For us, her family, relatives and friends she will always be with us. Should it be in our thoughts, on the top of a mountain, during a ski- or mountainbiketour or during our travelling. The thoughts about why it happened and how her last hours were will follow us for a long time.
On Saturday the 11th February we received an email from the chief of the Kathmandu Valley Police in Nepal. The massage was shocking he wrote that they found a female body in Nargajun. Because of characteristics as her rings there was a high probability that it is Bine. On Wednesday the 16th February a forensic doctor from Germany performed the post mortem examination. Based on some marks of identification and her teeth he is pretty sure that it is Sabine.
In the meantime it was confirmed that Sabine is the person.
Aktualisierung, eine Nachricht der Familie Grüneklee:
Liebe Freunde und Bekannte,
es ist schwer in Worte zu fassen, was passiert ist, und noch schwerer auszudrücken was wir fühlen. Keine Worte vermögen den Schmerz und die Trauer zu beschreiben, die wir spüren. Die anstrengende Suche und die Zeit der Ungewissheit und der Hoffnung ist nun zu Ende. Sabine brach zu einer großen Reise, Ihrem Traum, auf. Leider wird sie uns nie davon erzählen können. Für uns, Ihre Familie, Verwandte und Freunde wird sie immer da sein. Sei es in Gedanken, auf der Spitze eines Berges, auf der Ski- und Mountainbiketour oder bei unseren Reisen in ferne Länder. Die Gedanken nach dem warum und ihre letzten Stunden werden uns noch lange beschäftigen
Am Samstag den 11.02.2006 erreichte uns eine Email des Polizeichefs aus Nepal. Der Inhalt war schockierend, er schrieb, dass eine Frauenleiche im Nargajun-Park gefunden wurde. Durch Kennzeichen wie einige Ringe war es sehr wahrscheinlich, dass es Bine ist. (...).
Mittlerweile hat es sich bestätigt, dass es sich bei der toten Frau um Sabine handelt.
http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/mstadt/art1606,377137.html
"Veröffentlichung in einer Lokalzeitung"
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On Saturday February 11 2006 local residents who were out on Nagarjun hill discovered human remains there, and contacted the Kathmandu Police immediately. A rather good "resume" of the events that followed was published on eKantipur.com, a daily newssource (in English) published in Nepal:
"Body of foreign lady handed over to German Embassy" - The Kathmandu Post February 21
As the reports make clear, in spite of more searches ever since February 11 no traces have been found (yet) of the body of Céline Henry, the French woman who went missing in the same reserve 6 weeks earlier than Sabine did. But, sadly, it is expected by the authorities in Nepal and by many more people that she too was killed...
I think I'll ask David Koch to make a "sticky" post, or some other technical solution on this messageboard, where we can post about the final outcome of a "missing traveller case". Whether it's a positive outcome after all (as indeed it sometimes happens), or an extremely sad outcome. Such as with this beautiful young woman from Germany, who was about to meet her friend only a few days later and with whom she would go trekking to the Everest Base Camp.
I've known about her disappearance ever since mid October and witnessed a lot of the continuous search efforts. And I can't yet say "goodbye" to her on this board, and delete all information here about her.
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Closure
On Friday March 10, almost five months after she disappeared in Kathmandu, Sabine Grüneklee's funeral ceremony has taken place in Germany, in the town where she was born.
In their announcement of this sad occasion, her relatives also included this quote:
Only few people are really alive,
and those, who are, will never die.
It doesn´t count, that they aren´t here anymore.
Nobody who is so much loved, will ever be dead.
- E. Hemingway
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Her close friend Christiane, who started an alert-thread on the Thorn Tree - Indian Subcontinent forum late October last year, in order to warn other women for the dangers in the Nagarjun Forest, today posted the following warning there as well.
I'm afraid that with that inside-information about the experiences of the Grüneklee family, she makes clear once more what a mean beast it is that relatives may need to fight, when a loved one goes missing in Nepal: embassies, ambassadors and consuls of their own nationality, and paid out of their own tax money to be of help when fate strikes.
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Last but not least I want to tell everybody, who knows someone missing: Never rely on your embassy. NEVER EVER!! The German embassy till today was not able to inform Sabines family about what was found in Nargajun, even the ambassador wasn't able to tell his condolences, after they recieved Sabines dead body to send back home. It were only the Nepalese police and Nepalese friends who kept the family informed!
So please, if something like this will ever happen to someone you know, then ask the relatives to go there on their own. There are many people helping you, but it won't be your embassy for sure.
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