14/07/2010Police continue search for missing Aubrey Caroline

It is been nearly three months since Aubrey Caroline Sacco, 23, was last seen and police say they still don't have any leads on her disappearance. Though the search for the missing Greely woman continued in Langtang buffer zone and adjoining areas, no leads have led the search attempts any closer to finding her till date, said Om Bahadur Rana, DSP at the District Police Office, Rasuwa. A team of police is on the way to Ghoda Tabela area in Langtang region on Tuesday to collect some clothes reportedly found by the locals. DSP Rana said a police team has been sent to Ghoda Tabela after locals informed that they found ‘suspicious’ clothes yesterday. The team is expected to collect the clothes by this evening. According to Rana, they also circulated flyers of the missing woman in the region. A tourist guide who talked with her in Namaste Hotel in Pahiro on April-21 said that Aubrey was interested in volunteering work in Nepal. “We exchanged our e-mail addresses while I met her in Pahiro,” Renjin Dorjee said. “I asked Aubrey to be in touch with me in Kathmandu after completing the Langtang trek to discuss the volunteering opportunities, but she didn’t,” he added.

Aubrey, who was scheduled to return on or around April 30, begun her trek on April 20 and was last seen at Lama Hotel area in Langtang National Park in April 22. Meanwhile, officials said that the US Embassy in Kathmandu inquired from the police about a badly decomposed body which was found at Ghyangphedi area on June 4. “Officials from the US Embassy visited the District Police Office (DPO), Nuwakot three days ago and inquired about the details of the female body,” Hari Bahadur Pal, DSP at Nuwakot DPO said. According to him, the embassy officials collected the pictures and related documents prepared by police before cremating the body. DSP Pal claimed that the unclaimed female body was cremated after documenting the incident as a joint search team confirmed that it didn’t match with the missing woman’s description. The joint team comprised of members from US Embassy and private search firms, he added.