That is very helpful. Thank you!
My French is not what is was anymore, but I can follow it pretty well. I think for others who want to search with us, maybe you could do a translation of the paper clipping on the left/under. I think there is a lot of explanation what was going on in her life. Also maybe we could try to add the additional info to the doe network? I read she wanted to be a stewardess, that opens somehow the possibility she traveled. But then again she left everything behind so I can hardly think of a runaway situation.
Here is what I found in the swiss newspapers archives. I will try to throw a translation in case you need it
Translation of the article (excuse my english mistakes)
Mysterious disappearance in Haldimand
Runaway or kidnapping ?
Since a couple of days, no one knows where a young 16 y.o girl, who worked as an au pair at 51, Haldimand Avenue for Mrs Jocelyne Cosandey (a medical delegate and mother of two) is.
Born on july 21st in 1960, this young girl, Heidi Knobel, is originary from Arbon in the Thurgau Canton, where her mother and her two sisters live. She started working for Mrs Cosandey on the 15th of July, Mrs Cosandey who says that the young girl seemed happy with her new position, always cheerful, hard-working and well-behaved, serious and also athletic. She was committed to marry a technical cooperator presently based in Africa and wanted to become an air stewardess when she would reached legal age. « Very good looking girl », it is also said so.
At the end of last week, Miss Knobel had to go through a small surgical intervention at Yverdon Hospital, where she came out from on Monday between 10 and 10.30 am, then headed home.
She dropped her bag and got back to her work and usual chores.
Because the girl was on leave every afternoon until 5pm, her absence didn’t strike Mrs Cosandey. As she didn’t see her return, she called the police around 6pm (after calling her family in Arbon who had no clue of her whereabouts). Since then, no one has seen Miss Knobel, who is now researched by the Federal and Cantonal Police.
Miss Knobel hasn’t been yet subject to a public search warrant, because these disappearances happen « every day » as we have been told in Lausanne. But is it really a « banal » disappearance though, a disappearance that remains no less disturbing, or could it be a kidnapping, as supposed by Mrs Cosandey ? Little knowing the girl, she nevertheless declares being certain she did not run away, because she left all her belongings as well as her ID at home.
For all practical purposes, she left us a picture of the young girl asking for its massive diffusion, hoping to get at least a few clues about her ; the woman was visibly astonished at the silence surrounding the mysterious case.
Tall, , slim and healthy, Mrs Knobel was wearing a pair of blue jeans like trousers, a dark (probably navy blue) pullover/sweater with kimono-like sleeves, and some dark purple loafers. She has short, dark brown hair, styled in a neat haircut. She probably wasn’t wearing a jacket on Monday, and, if she had been surprised at it seems, either in the apartment, either in the building hallway or even outside the building, she was probably not carrying her personal belongings, her bag in particular.
The near future will - maybe - give us an opportunity to tell what really happened to the disappeared girl.
