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Missing child linked to mysterious shooting and suicide
03 Août 2007

Ylenia Lenhard, 5 ½ years-old, was last seen at 9:30 a.m. on July 31 in front of the village swimming pool. Police and firemen began scouring the area, questioning residents and searching the nearby river Sitter.

Now, the mystery has taken a new and strange turn. Police in Appenzell and St-Gallen have revealed that, on the same day that Ylenia disappeared, a 46 year-old man with a gunshot wound was taken to hospital by a passing motorist. The wounded man said that he had been shot by an unknown assailant as he slept in the woods of Oberbüren (SG), 24kms from Ylenia’s home. When police investigated the attack, they discovered a truck in the woods with Spanish license plates. The next morning, Aug. 1, they discovered the body of a 67 year-old Swiss man who had apparently committed suicide. Ylenia’s push-bike, helmet and backpack were found next to the body.

According to police, the dead man may have tried to kill the sleeping man as a witness. However, they are now looking for a second gun: several shots were fired although the weapon found next to the body had fired only one.

Police are still investigating the scene and are trying to determine if the truck was used to carry the child. They have already ruled out any relationship between the girl’s family and the two men.
Petition to set up system to find missing children in Switzerland

The FREDI Foundation (Foundation for the Search for Missing Children, International) is calling for an immediate alert system to notify the public when children in Switzerland go missing. The organization is collecting signatures to support the initiative.

Switzerland has had 25 cases of missing and murdered children since the 1980s; five are still missing.

“Child pornography is the essential factor in the kidnapping of children today,” says Diane Burgy, director of FREDI.

Switzerland has been relatively spared, because many attempts fail probably because the territory is small and densely populated, explains Burgy.

“In Germany, there is practically a kidnapping per day. In France, one every week,” she said.

http://www.tdg.ch/pages/home/tribune_de_geneve/english_corner/news/news_detail/(contenu)/114996

Police searching for missing Swiss girl say DNA tests show link to chief suspect
The Associated Press
Published: August 6, 2007

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland: DNA tests showed a link between a missing girl's belongings and the alleged suspect, a 67-year-old man who was found dead last week, Swiss police said Monday.

Police said investigations are also under way in Spain and Portugal, where 4-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared three months ago. But they declined to comment on whether there was any link between the two cases.

Ylenia Lenhard, a 5-year-old girl from Appenzell, in northeastern Switzerland, disappeared on Tuesday afternoon. Police found her backpack, cycling helmet and scooter in the woods, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) away on Tuesday evening.

The chief suspect, a Swiss man, had been living in Spain since 1990.

The suspect had "direct contact with the Ylenia's backpack, helmet and the scooter," said Bruno Fehr, chief of canton (state) St. Gallen criminal police. The girl's clothing items were all neatly folded in the backpack, he told reporters, suggesting she was left naked.

>>>>>>>The Complete Article

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/06/europe/EU-GEN-Switzerland-Missing-Girl.php

Swiss police find missing Ylenia's DNA in van belonging to main suspect
By m.p - Aug 8, 2007

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_11904.shtml

Swiss investigators to check alleged child abductor's house in Spain
 August 10, 2007

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland: Police ended a search for a kidnapped 5-year-old girl in woods in eastern Switzerland and took their investigation to Spain, where they prepared to examine the chief suspect's home, authorities said.

St. Gallen cantonal (state) police said they found no sign of Ylenia Lenhard in days of searching the area where on Aug. 1 they found the body of Urs Hans Von Aesch, who shot himself in the head the previous day when he allegedly kidnapped the girl in nearby Appenzell.

The 67-year-old Swiss man, who had lived in Spain with his wife since 1990, had left traces of his DNA on Ylenia's bicycle helmet, backpack and scooter, authorities said.

Police said they were sorting through hundreds of tips phoned in by citizens and would reopen the search for Ylenia if they thought it was warranted.

A Swiss investigating magistrate, two police officers and a federal official have arrived in Benimantell in Alicante, Spain, where they planned to search the home of Von Aesch and examine how he lived, the police statement said.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/10/europe/EU-GEN-Switzerland-Missing-Girl.php

Investigation Continues

By Staff Reporter (office@theleader.info)
(Published: 13/08/2007  Edition No.: 173)
 
At the weekend the Guardia Civil and representatives of the Swiss police force continued their minute examination of the Benimantell home of Urs Hans Von Aesch, who is suspected of being involved in the disappearance of the little Swiss girl Ylenia Lenhard, as reported in last weeks ‘Leader.’

According to the locals, Mr Von Aesch lived a very closeted life in Benimantell in a home he owned for the last twenty years, hugely different from his style in Switzerland, where he made himself out to be a millionaire.

On Saturday investigators took DNA and other samples from the house as well as removing a computer. The 67 year-old committed suicide after having injured another man who apparently expressed the view that he was behind the kidnapping of Ylenia, who vanished on her way to a swimming pool near where she lived, and it is believed that evidence was discovered linking Mr Von Aesch to the crime.

Hans Eggenberger, the spokesman for the Saint Gallen Police stated that they had discovered a digital camera in the van belonging to Mr Von Aesch and that the memory card is being examined.

The Times newspaper in particular has published stories alleging similarities between the Von Aesch case and that of Madeleine McCann, and the Swiss man was allegedly close to Praia de Luz when she disappeared.

http://www.costablancaleader.com/news/article.php?article_id=12489&article_section_id=1

Card Switzerland

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* Purple: where the little girl was kidnapped
* Light blue: the place, where the body was found of Urs Hans Von Aesch  
* And the last want I have read, the Swiss police is searching in the bunches near the river the Sittle. (See light green plane).

Beyond upset over reading all these posts.

Me too.

Missing Girl - Ylenia Lenhard (PLEASE WATCH)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lRzRITfZgw

Bleached Black all I can say is WOW.  What moving videos and also a great way to get the word (as well as the pictures) out.

Thank you BB! For the Youtube video. Sad she is still missing, missing for 42 days.

Still here also, a video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vrvkUHO0g

Thank-you for the link NYC. Beautiful sad music. What a cutie she is. I only wish she would be found well.........my prayers to her and those searching for her.

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Body_of_missing_girl_found.html?siteSect=105&sid=8221344&cKey=1189871988000&ty=st

September 15, 2007 - 5:59 PM
Body of missing girl believed to have been found
 

 
Police in the eastern city of St Gallen say they are nearly certain to have found the body of Ylenia, the five-year-old girl who went missing on July 31.
At a news conference on Saturday, a police spokesman said they were able to make the identification because of the general appearance of the body and jewellery found on it.

 
The corpse of the girl, who was believed to have been abducted, was uncovered by a private individual in a wood between the villages of Oberbüren and Niederwil.

 

The police said the buried body had been apparently dug up by wild animals.

 

The results of the autopsy are expected to be known by next Tuesday.

 

On the day Ylenia disappeared from a swimming pool in Appenzell, the suspected kidnapper shot at and wounded another man in the chest before turning the gun on himself.

 

The shooting incident occurred in the same wood where the child's body was found. Passersby stumbled upon the corpse of the 67-year-old Swiss in a nearby forest the next day, where the backpack and bike helmet the girl was carrying when she disappeared were also uncovered.

 

Police believe the man abducted the girl in a white van with Spanish licence plates. An analysis of DNA taken from the vehicle indicated that it had been used to transport Ylenia.

 

The man was a resident of eastern Switzerland before resettling with his wife in Spain in 1990.

 

Immediately following Ylenia's disappearance, Swiss police said investigations were also being carried out in Spain and Portugal, raising speculation of a possible link between her case and that of missing British girl Madeleine McCann.

 

McCann was last seen in the Algarve holiday region in Portugal at the beginning of May.

 

Sad news. At least her parents know where she will be.

   
Child's body found in Switzerland confirmed as missing Ylenia

Sep 15, 2007, 15:42 GMT

St Gallen, Switzerland - Swiss police confirmed Saturday a body found in a forest in St Gallen, in the north of the country is that of missing five-year-old girl Ylenia.

The child's body was found in a wooded area near the area where her clothing and belongings were found after she disappeared on July 31 from a swimming pool in the town of Appenzell, some 60 kilometres east of Zurich.

Urs Hans von Aesch, the 67-year-old Swiss national believed to have abducted the girl, was found shot through the head the day after her disappearance. Police believe he killed himself.

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