I contacted Katrice's family. They do not believe it is her. I am surprised they would just say no to the possibility, and so quickly too. The reasons they gave seemed vague and almost as though they just want to believe she is alive and won't believe she was killed soon after being taken. I was thinking a few possibilities of what could have happened.
1. Back than it was easy to get a fake passport. Also, the passport if the parent was an American would only have been checked while leaving Germany, but at that time would not have been checked on the way into America if the man and/or woman coming home with the child was an American. I know this because I spoke with a flight attendant who has been working with the airline for many many years.
2. No one she told me, would have questioned a father or mother and what appeared to be his or her child. As long as Katrice did not put up a struggle and seemed happy and okay with the people she was with no one would have questioned them.
3. If Katrice had become ill, her new parents may have been too afraid to take her to the hospital for treatment. Had she been dying, or if the parents believed she were dead, it may have sparked a suicide and the reason why the woman seen with the child would not accept help and threw herself with the child off of the bridge.
4. If someone became supicious, and asked the parents where they got this child, it may have sparked the same scenario above.
5. Katrice's own family believes she was taken by someone from another country, and most likely someone in the military. The reasons the family states this are that the child was taken from a military grocery store. The only people allowed in and out are military with ID's. I don't think these ID's were fake, I think whoever took her was either in the military OR worked at the grocery store. Which by the way, were usually military anyway, who worked as a side job at the stores. So therefore, more than likely a military person.
6. Lots of US men were stationed in Germany during this time. My own father was one of them.
I think it is very possible that a US soldier saw little Katrice and took her home with him. Why? I don't know. Still working on that one. His wife could have had a miscarriage, they could have had a child die, maybe they couldn't have children at all for one reason or another, perhaps Katrice was just so cute he couldn't help himself... I don't think it was a child molestor if Katrice did end up in the states, I just don't see anyone going through that much trouble... The fake passport that would be needed... Etc... A woman jumping off the bridge with the child, not a man.... Anyways.... What do you all think? The picture of Katrice and the other little girl look sooooooo much alike, I can't just write it off. Maybe I am wrong. But I think a DNA test would give us a much, much, clearer picture. And if I was wrong we could go on from there.
