The Girl in the Forest

‘There is something surreal about this case, it involves a combination of a young woman, lost in herself and then physically but not spiritually, lost in a lonely forest. Then perhaps found in her isolation and death, but not without the assistance of a psychic intuitive connection with others.

It is the sad and very real story of Claudia a young woman, tormented by mental health and drugs, and the search for her remains in a quiet and beautiful autumnal German forest.  An interesting investigative story that introduces the uninformed reader to the world of Remote Vision, the intuitive investigative use of the sixth sense, perception and quantum science’.

(I was introduced to this case by Stefan Bosselman, The Private Investigator from Solingen, Germany, www.privatermittler.eu whose team was ultimately responsible for the successful investigation and location of the remains of Claudia in a German Forest…)

Note: A number of identifying features have been removed for confidentiality and privacy reasons.

_______The Case in detail_______

Just like the back story behind a case can be complex, so to can the circumstances of each case be difficult and equally subject to the environment upon which it is conceived and delivered.

However, most everything changes with the time and circumstances.  Just like the falling leaves of autumn signal the shift from the seasons of plenty and herald the approach of much leaner times.

For Claudia at first there was alcohol as she entered the local German party and rave dance scene, and its more advanced associated experimenting with social drug use, and then the drug use became more addictive and dangerous.  Eventually Claudia moved out of home and diagnosed with a mental health problem together with the drug use, she was a ticking time bomb of psychological emotional hurt soon to explode.

Like most young people in this existence, Claudia would flick between bouts of desperate highs of hope built on flashes of achievement, perhaps as a result of the furnishing of her newly leased apartment with a swag of Ikea flat pack furniture and plants, or a three-week stint on the dry without using.  On the flip side, all would come crashing down with one drug and alcohol fuelled bender, which would spiral into an oblivion of overdose and desperation often resulting in eviction following violent fights with her male partner, and if she was lucky some hospital rehabilitation.

Because of her mental health instability and drug use Claudia was under the care of a mobile social worker who would visit her on a regular basis.  Claudia now lived alone in her apartment and was separated from her boyfriend, who was also a drug user known to local law enforcement.  

It was Mid-May, a warm Spring day, a beautiful time for life, but a day which would be the last anyone would see or hear from Claudia.  She was reported missing to police who attended her apartment, launched a search and commenced investigative inquiries.  A tracker dog was deployed, which followed her scent to a drivable dirt road where it quite literally and suddenly ended in the sand.

The surrounding area was full of natural features: open fields, meadows, and nearby forests. However, due to the vast size of these areas, the police had never intended to conduct a large-scale search.  The police concluded their work at that location, especially since her phone signal also stopped in that same area. One open question was whether she may have entered a vehicle. This was further considered due to a red car being allegedly seen nearby, but the vehicle was never identified.

The police investigation stalled, there were no usable leads for them to go on and their inquiries and interviews with the boyfriend, family and other associates had led nowhere.  A large scale land search was not undertaken due to there being no determinable area of search, and the European woodlands and marginal areas tend to be a mix of criss-crossed fields boxed in by hedgerows, thick woodlots, forests, tangled brush and briars, all sometimes making it difficult to discern an area of search for an adult without an indication of probable travel.

Time would pass and a suffering family would eventually contact Stefan Bosselmann’s Private Investigation team from Solingen to seek help in finding their daughter Claudia. Stefan’s team realised that they were faced with a challenging task.  The police had finished their work and had, whilst still assigning it as an open case, basically relegated it to the inactive case file load.

The task for Stefan’s team was obviously to find the missing girl and bring some end to uncertainty as to where she was.  Perhaps, together with finding Claudia there could be some possibility of revealing what truly happened to her. 

By the time the team had picked up the investigation it was early October.  Whilst Claudia had disappeared on a warm Spring Day in mid-May, now it was early autumn and the trees had shed most of the leaves as the woods shut down and the weather turned bitterly cold.

Two of Stefan’s investigators met with the three-members of Claudia’s family at their home in the north of Germany.  They were distraught yet composed as they took the investigators through the timelines of Claudia’s disappearance. 

The family described Claudia’s wide circle of friends, her professional and mental health background, and the many personal efforts they had made to find her, all of which had failed to shed light on her fate. Suspicion and hypothesis mainly centred on two theories: that she had run away and gone into hiding after a fight with her ex-boyfriend, or that he had killed her and disposed of her body. The police had investigated both possibilities without results.

After a detailed briefing from the family, the team needed to define the key focus points of their investigation. In addition to extensive background research into her social and family environment, they needed to understand why the police leads had gone nowhere. Everything had to be taken from the beginning, which is, in most cases the best way to go, and in this case, it would be no different, as a request for the official case files showed the material to be extremely sparse, which left investigators with no option anyway.

To help determine all of the unknown factors in this case Stefan’s team was expanded to include a number of specialists. In addition to the traditional investigators Stefan engaged a small team of Remote Crime Viewers (RV) specifically trained in crime related cases, to provide an alternative perspective on the disappearance.

Whilst the use of the Remote Viewers was considered with regards to how they would best complement the conventional investigative work in this case, they had no knowledge of the actual question they were to be asked.    However, the one crucial up-front question for the remote crime viewers was whether the missing woman (Claudia) was still alive at the time of the investigation.

What and who are Remote Viewers?

At this point for the uninformed, it is important to briefly explain Remote Viewing (RV), an investigative genre that will be explained in much more detail in a later article.  RV has been around for a very long time and was covertly used by the CIA until de-classified in 1990.  

RV is reportedly a natural ability we all have, yet something that we have mostly all unconsciously surrendered upon entering structured learning systems upon where we are taught to approach everything in an analytical way.

The sophistication of RV, more specifically Remote Crime Viewing, is based on scientific and military parameters and represents the systematic use of intuition.

RV can best be described as the perception that everything is connected at all times – call it the quantum field. Whether future, present or past, i.e. all information exists somewhere.  It has been best explained as to imagine entering a darkened room with a flashlight, wherever you shine the light, you only become aware of that portion of the room, even though the rest, which you cannot see at that moment, still exists.

In RV, the idea is to direct the viewers subconscious focus toward a specific target, question, object, or topic in order to gain insight, i.e. to obtain initial clues for further investigation.

The task of working with RV is tied to a strict process, which is controlled by a monitor, who is also unaware of the target case, but is there to ensure adherence to the process, this ensures, a (double-blind) secure setup. 

Multiple viewers document their intuitive perceptions, which are later analysed by a trained analyst. Remote Crime Viewing systematically taps into the human subconscious, operating beyond analytical logic, to access information not available to the rational mind.  In essence, RV is a very complex and controlled process that captures the perceptions of a number of RV’s on a case. 

Those RV perceptions are then compared to and worked in with conventional intelligence and other investigative data.

It is worth noting that in complex cases a team of up to eighty or more viewers may be involved, with many being tasked on different areas within the viewing process in addition to the actual crime viewers.  A typical team might consist of the crime viewers who know nothing about the target, the tasker, who defines and encrypts the assignment and the analyst, who later examines all viewer results for information and compiles the report.

The first question put to the RV’s in this case was to determine if Claudia was still alive or not.  In this case the answer was unfavourable, in that it allowed investigators to determine that she was deceased.

With the RV’s continuing to work on their tasks, the other conventional investigators in the team concentrated on interviewing Claudia’s friends, neighbours and acquaintances to get a better understanding of anything that may have caused or influenced her disappearance.

The ex-boyfriend repeatedly came up as a suspect, and never in a positive light. Some suspected he had not only supplied her with drugs and abused her but ultimately may have killed her. The team examined Claudia’s former apartment and the surrounding neighbourhood, a quiet midsized town surrounded by nature.

As earlier mentioned, the police man-trailing dog had led their investigators to a dirt road from where Claudia’s trail vanished, which is where the police concluded their work, especially since her phone signal also stopped in that same area. One open question was whether she might have entered a vehicle. With the report that a red car had allegedly been seen nearby but was never identified.

As the police investigation stalled, Stefan’s team ramped theirs up, with the RV insights providing information, which at first did not seem to make sense, until it was subjected to a closer analysis and compared to other data.  However, it was noted that several viewers provided similar sketches depicting an outdoor location in nature.

The area of interest was vast, and the team were well aware that the police had not conducted a full search, which left the team planning how best to deploy drones to at least do a closer examination of the mass of fields, forests and meadows near Claudia’s home. At one stage the contracting of a helicopter was even considered.

Simultaneously, in thought it was determined to focus on analysing the RV data more closely to identify any new investigative leads from the material provided.  This closer analysis indicated, not only that the Remote Viewers had indicated that Claudia was deceased, but that her remains might lie on some kind of outdoors plateau, with the mention of a forested area being of high significance.

It is accepted that RV is generally strongest in the provision of descriptive data.  However, in this case Stefan’s team used mapping techniques to translate the viewed impressions into geographical data.

Based on the analysis of the RV insights considered against the wider drone images and the geographical material, Stefan’s team homed in the drone searches on forested areas, starting from the last confirmed location by the man trailing dog and Claudia’s mobile phone’s final signal. Combining these with the RV data allowed them to triangulate a much tighter search zone.

After several days, hampered by poor search conditions, the breakthrough came: in a wooded area, deep within the forest, where human remains were found. The location was only a few kilometres from where Claudia had last been traced.

Later, it was determined, based on time markers and environmental evidence, that Claudia had abruptly left her apartment one evening, disappeared into the darkness, likely wandered onto the dirt road, entered the adjacent forest, became disoriented, and ultimately succumbed to the cold of the night, where it would certainly drop low enough to kick in hypothermia for the unprepared.

The official forensic examination of Claudia’s body found no evidence of external violence and for Stefan’s team, the assignment ended here as any further investigation if deemed necessary was a matter for the police.

Why Claudia was in the forest we may never know, but what we can imagine is what the forest may mean to some as the involuntary choice for a final resting place. For in its purity there is no human disturbance in the forest, one can immerse into its quietude. The trees do not judge, the dark is silent, the cold engulfs to shut down without pain.  Freedom comes in the end, back to the primeval, to die as you lived and dreamed, alone and in peace.

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Note: The author is a strong advocate in the application and use of the natural senses in investigative thinking and incident/crime scene examination. However, whilst retaining a completely open mind to knowledge, the author does not have any experience in the use of Remote Crime Viewing in investigations.

The author is aware, however that Stefan Bosselman is experienced in Remote Crime Viewing and is a strong advocate for its use in investigations.   It is also quite apparent that Stefan presents as a professional in this regard and his detailed explanation with regards this case was extremely interesting and revealed a high standard of investigation.

Written and prepared by Valentine Smith APM of www.missinginaustralia.com.au based on notes and material provided by Stefan Bosselman of Solingen, Germany, www.privatermittler.eu