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| 1996 Hagner, Ylva October 14th 1996; Belmont 42 YO | |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 8 2006, 09:04 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hagner_ylva.html![]() -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missing Woman's Car Found a Mile From Her Job in Belmont - Saturday, October 19, 1996 A car belonging to a missing software marketing manager was found yesterday in San Carlos, four days after she was last seen in her office in Belmont. Belmont police announced at a news conference last night that Ylva Hagner's black 1992 Honda Civic was found on Spring Street near El Camino Real, less than a mile south from where the 42-year- old Swedish national works. The vehicle was being checked for evidence in an effort to determine what may have happened to her. Asked if foul play is suspected, a police spokesman said Hagner was still presumed missing. Belmont police were led to the car yesterday morning by an unidentified person who heard a description of her car. Hagner, who has lived in the United States for more than a dozen years, was last seen at about 9:30 p.m. Monday at the headquarters of Ixos Software Inc., where she is a product marketing manager. The Palo Alto resident and graduate student at Stanford University was reported missing by her employer. Hagner is 5-foot-6, weighs 110 pounds and has shoulder-length reddish hair and blue eyes. Belmont police said anyone who may have seen her or her car, license plate 3BBS966, should contact them at (415) 595-7400. Page A - 16 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../19/MN55589.DTL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ©2006 San Francisco Chronicle |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 8 2006, 09:05 PM Post #2 |
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Return to regular view -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missing Woman Not Forgotten Palo Alto police search continues 2 years later - Julie N. Lynem, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, October 14, 1998 PALO ALTO sb: a15 1-30-3,33 deck 1-14-2 jmps to a18 col 4, 3-24-1 jphed with 5 line caption at 5p7 of ylva -- High in the hills above Palo Alto today, Marshall Bern will pause to remember his missing friend, Ylva Hagner. Unlike last year, however, he won't help to plant an oak tree in honor of the Palo Alto woman who disappeared two years ago. He probably won't light a candle along with several others. He doesn't expect to give a speech. Instead, without fanfare, he will stop at the special site just to keep her memory alive. ``We don't ever want to forget,'' Bern said. Hagner, 42, was last seen at 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 14, 1996, as she worked late at Ixos Software Co., which was then located in a downtown Belmont office building. Her black Honda Civic was found four days later, in front of a San Carlos hotel 10 blocks from her office. Hagner's purse was missing, but her car keys were still in the ignition. The FBI conducted forensic tests of the car but never found blood, semen or evidence of a struggle. Police feverishly looked for Hagner for several days after her disappearance. In March 1997, acting on a tip, police searched a vacant home on Page Mill Road. They found nothing. Since then, Belmont detectives have continued to dig, but have not turned up any new leads, said Commander Larry Riche. For fear of jeopardizing the investigation, police declined to discuss any details about the case. ``When your trail is cold, it's hard to keep momentum up,'' Riche said. ``We talk to the family to tell them what's going on with the investigation. At any day, something might happen, and it could be solved.'' Hagner's friends and family are convinced that solving her disappearance is closer than detectives think. Bjorn Hagner, Ylva's younger brother, believes that his sister was the victim of foul play. The family, he said, works almost every day to uncover facts about the case that might help investigators gather the proof they need to bring the killer to justice. ``There's no hope that she's still alive,'' Hagner said. ``Our only hope is to get the killer behind bars.'' A native of Sweden, Hagner was a software executive who was working on a master's degree in liberal arts at Stanford University. Friends and relatives describe her as energetic and social -- the kind of person who had a gift for making and keeping close friends. But those who knew her well say she was not so trusting that she would let down her guard. Hagner said his sister was a world traveler. She never put herself at risk. ``She just wasn't that way,'' he said. While Hagner's friends and family search for answers to the mystery of her disappearance, they also struggle to cope with the loss of a loved one. Some visit with Ylva Hagner's relatives from Sweden. Others simply share their favorite Ylva stories. On the anniversary of her death last year, about 30 of her closest friends gathered at the Arastradero Preserve in the Palo Alto hills to plant a tree in her honor. ``I go up there every now and then,'' Marshall Bern said. ``I've watched it grow a lot.'' Page A - 15 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../14/MN77008.DTL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ©2006 San Francisco Chronicle |
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| PorchlightUSA | Jul 8 2006, 09:07 PM Post #3 |
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Return to regular view -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psychic Consulted in Search Missing woman's father, brothers arrive from Sweden - Benjamin Pimentel, Bill Workman, Chronicle Peninsula Bureau Wednesday, October 23, 1996 Missing software executive Ylva Hagner loved socializing, throwing dinner parties, organizing river rafting trips and having lots of friends hang out at her Palo Alto home. That's why friends and family cannot make sense of the 42-year- old woman's mysterious disappearance nine days ago, and why they are trying anything that might help find her -- including bringing a psychic into the search. Hagner's father and two brothers have arrived in the Bay Area from Sweden to help investigators. They declined yesterday to discuss the case with reporters. Hagner, a marketing manager for Ixos Software in Belmont, was last seen working late at her office on October 14. Four law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have joined the investigation. ``This keeps getting more and more baffling,'' said Marshall Bern, a San Carlos computer scientist and friend of Hagner's. ``It would be a good mystery, if it wasn't someone I cared so much about who's missing.'' Bern disclosed that a Bulgarian psychic contacted by other friends of the missing woman has taken an interest in the case and has asked for photographs ``to get a better feel for Ylva.'' The female psychic talked with a roommate of Hagner's, Bern said, and was able to describe such personal items as a blue earring that Hagner seldom wore and where the missing woman kept her address book. Bern did not know the psychic's name, and the Santa Clara couple who consulted her could not be reached last night. The only clue so far to Hagner's disappearance is her black 1992 Honda Civic, found Friday in San Carlos less than a mile from where she worked. FBI technicians yesterday completed combing the car for evidence of blood, semen, fiber or hairs and sent their findings to the agency's Washington, D.C., laboratory, an FBI spokesman said. The spokesman would not say what evidence was recovered. Hagner's friends and co-workers painted a picture of an outgoing woman who constantly drew new acquaintances into what one friend described as her ``Bohemian household.'' A number of friends, mostly Silicon Valley professionals and European expatriates who shared Hagner's interests and multilingual skills, are distributing flyers with her photograph. Andreas Ramos, an executive at Silicon Graphics, has created a Web page detailing Hagner's disappearance and displaying a half dozen photographs of his missing friend. ``She's a typical European who liked the outdoors and was always organizing outings,'' said Ramos. But, he said, she was ``not what you would call a party girl. She was very outgoing, but also very shy and proper -- almost a Victorian woman.'' Ramos said police asked him if his friend might have gone off without telling anyone. ``When you're in college, you do something like that,'' scoffed Ramos. ``She's a 42-year-old manager of a company.'' The daughter of a retired Swedish forestry professor, Hagner grew up in a small town near the Arctic Circle. She moved to the United States 12 years ago and became a legal resident, according to friends. Friends say she is a well-traveled and highly educated woman who speaks fluent German and English as well as Swedish, and likes to tell stories in all three languages at parties. Taped to the door of her home on Second Street in Palo Alto yesterday was a handwritten note she had penned: ``Welcome. Please Take Off Your Shoes. It's the Swedish Tradition.'' With little to go on, investigators have not officially concluded that Hagner has met with foul play, although they said they are leaning toward that theory with each day she is missing. Bob Collins, a business professor at Santa Clara University and a good friend of Hagner's, summed up the fears and feelings of those who know her: ``As far as I know, we have no reason to think that anything bad has happened,'' he said. ``But I have no information to think that she's OK. We just don't know.'' Page A - 16 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file.../23/MN30447.DTL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ©2006 San Francisco Chronicle |
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| 100PercentFound | Sep 4 2006, 08:07 PM Post #4 |
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http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-79315/ What happened to our Ylva? Ylva Annika Hagner was working in her office in Belmont, California, late and alone at night on October 14th 1996. Since then she has not been seen or heard from. This case is a very difficult one for the police. They are hampered by the fact that they cannot even prove that a crime has been committed, since Ylva´s body has not yet been found. Ylva lived in Palo Alto for several years, a community south of San Francisco, USA, in an area often called "Silicon Valley". She worked as a business-marketing manager for a German-American software company, iXOS. She was 42 years old, single, and had no children. Ylva was a spirited, well-educated woman, full of initiative and used to having many irons in the fire. She had a wide circle of friends, mainly professionals in the computer business or working at nearby universities. She loved outdoor life in the Californian nature. She had just started evening studies towards a Master of Liberal Arts degree at Stanford University. On the one-year anniversary of her disappearance more than 30 of Ylva´s friends paid homage to her during a Memorial Service in the Arastradero Preserve, Palo Alto. For the ceremony an oak tree had been planted to honor her memory. Parallel to the ongoing police search Ylva´s family have been carrying out their own investigation. We still do not know what happened to our Ylva and are constantly struggling with questions like: Why did Ylva have to vanish? Who waited for her? What happened then? Who moved her car? Where is she hidden? We appeal: Anyone who feels you can give us a clue, please help us! At this point we have decided to go public with some relevant facts: Ylva vanished on Monday night, October 14, 1996. Not until two days later, on Wednesday, October 16 at noontime, was it realized that something serious had happened to her. Until then, during Tuesday and Wednesday morning, nobody but the one responsible for her disappearance could have known she would later be found missing. According to friends who talked to Ylva only hours and minutes before she was last seen at 9.30 p.m., her mood was very good, pretty upbeat, still exited from the weekend, very energetic etc. The day before she was last seen, on Sunday, October 13, she returned home from an outdoor weekend. She had been stargazing together with her boyfriend, a hobby astronomer. Prior to the stargazing weekend, Ylva received several e-mails from a university professor, who had considered and behaved himself as being her boyfriend. In these e-mail letters, he shows that he is frantic in boiling rage at Ylva. He claims she is not friendly with him, refuses to have sex with him, is abusive etc. He writes: "I WON´T forgive you. I have done way too much of that." He says he is serious. He had earlier warned her against being unfaithful. The same week Ylva confides to a work mate the fact that the professor keeps pestering her to move in with him. She is upset over his attempts to get complete control over her and complains that he persecutes her with hang-up calls. Reminded that most women are harmed by men they know, Ylva said she was not afraid, but it was clear to the work mate that Ylva was troubled. For half a year Ylva had repeatedly expressed concerns over her relation to the professor, a relation she described as a dilemma. She accepted him as a friend but he was constantly putting pressure on her for sex. Furthermore, on 23 September 1996, three weeks before she disappeared, Ylva confided to another close friend that the professor was putting great pressure on her to marry him, and this made her very uncomfortable. Investigations into the professor´s past have revealed that such behavior was not unique to Ylva´s case. In publicly available documents, for example, both his second wife and his daughter have accused the professor of both psychological and physical abuse. To date, however, no criminal charges have ever been filed against the professor. After Ylva´s disappearance the police interviewed the professor. He failed a lie-detector test on the questions: "Did you cause her disappearance?" and: "Do you know for sure where she is now? Such test results cannot, however, be used in court in USA. The professor was for a time actively pursuing an own unusual search for Ylva among the homeless in the area. His theories about her disappearance have found various expressions over time. In his own words: "She may be psychologically impaired, and desperately in need of professional help". There is no evidence that this was true, Ylva was known as an extremely reliable person. And at the time of her disappearance she was particularly upbeat. We have politely asked the professor to justify his sensational search for Ylva. He has responded that he considers this request to be "unacceptable". When expressing our indignation over his detestable letters to Ylva, the professor answered Ylva´s father by writing that; he is "not interested in hearing your delusional rambling or bizarre theories". He also says to her father that; he "will not deal with liars or lunatics". We appeal to the public -- did anyone notice any unusual activities during the period of October 12-18, 1996? Do you have experiences or have you made observations of value? Please contact us bjorn.hagner@swipnet.se Ylva´s family |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 7 2006, 09:46 AM Post #5 |
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http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/hagner_ylva.html Ylva Annika Hagner Above Images: Hagner, circa 1996 Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: October 14, 1996 from Belmont, California Classification: Endangered Missing Date Of Birth: August 4, 1954 Age: 42 years old Height and Weight: 5'5, 110 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Red hair, blue eyes. Hagner has a fair complexion. She speaks Swedish, German and English and has a Swedish accent. Hagner's first name is pronounced "Eel-vah." At the time of her disappearance, her hair was very long, past her shoulders. Details of Disappearance Hagner was employed as a software marketing manager at a small company called Ixos Software in 1996. The business was located in an office building at Sixth Avenue in Belmont, California at the time, fifty yards down the hall from the Belmont Police Department administrative offices; it has since changed locations. Hagner was last seen at her office at approximately 9:30 p.m. on October 14, 1996 by an executive who headed out for home, leaving her alone there. She has never been heard from again. Hagner's black 1992 Honda Civic with California license plates numbered 2BBS966 was discovered abandoned on October 17, 1996, three days after she initially disappeared. The vehicle had been parked south of the Belmont/San Carlos border in California on the corner of El Camino Real and Spring Street in front of the Days Inn motel. This location is a mile and a half away from Ixos Software. The car was unlocked and the keys were still in the ignition. There was no sign of Hagner at the scene and her purse was also missing. A photo of her car is posted below this case summary. No sign of forced entry was found at the office, and there was also no blood or evidence of a struggle there or at her car. Hagner usually turned off her computer and straightened up the items on her desk when she left; however, on the night of her disappearance, her computer was left turned on and papers were strewn across her desktop. Hagner was a resident of Palo Alto, California in 1996. She was a graduate student at Stanford University at the time she vanished; she was enrolled in a liberal arts master's degree program. Her loved ones describe her as outgoing, cultured and "Bohemian," but responsible. She is well-traveled and enjoys the outdoors. Hagner's family and friends have stated that it is uncharacteristic of her to disappear in such a manner voluntarily. They stated that she was being harassed and stalked by a male acquaintance prior to her disappearance and also that he failed a lie-detector test about her case. Hagner's parents and brother lived in Sweden at the time she disappeared; her father has since died. She had no relatives in California at the time she went missing. She is a Swedish national and had been living in the United States for about twelve years prior to her disappearance; she is a legal resident of the U. S. Authorities believe Hagner was abducted by someone she knew and trusted, such as a family member or friend. Her case remains unsolved. Above: Hagner's car Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Belmont Police Department 650-595-7400 OR Palo Alto Police Department 650-329-2348 Source Information Ylva's Memorial Belmont Police Department KRON 4: the Bay Area's News Station The San Francisco Examiner The Child Seek Network What happened to our Ylva? The San Francisco Chronicle Updated 3 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated July 10, 2006; details of disappearance updated. Charley Project Home |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 7 2006, 09:48 AM Post #6 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Dec 7 2006, 09:48 AM Post #7 |
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| PorchlightUSA | Feb 17 2009, 06:39 AM Post #8 |
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http://www.andreas.com/missing/ Ylva Hagner's Memorial Friends marked the anniversary of Ylva's disappearance (Oct. 14, 1996) by holding a memorial service in Palo Alto's Arastradero Preserve. About 30 people gathered around a newly planted live oak tree in the hills above Palo Alto and exchanged stories and remembrances of Ylva. The service evoked the memory of a kind, funny woman. It was good to talk about Ylva alive and to temporarily put aside discussion of her disappearance. A tree is an especially appropriate memorial for Ylva, because she loved nature and the outdoors. As a full moon rose over the hills, friends lit candles (something Ylva would have loved) and placed them in a circle around the tree. Marshall Bern, who led the ceremonies, said that the candles represented "not hope, but remembrance. (...) We should remember Ylva as more than someone who disappeared. I remember her as a vivid, energetic, wonderful person with this marvelous angelic face. She made every activity special". The tree stands near the highest point in the park on the site of the original ranch house. Ylva's Tree is growing very well. This past winter, El Nino brought a great deal of rain to California and the tree has grown. Help us find Ylva March 1998: Ylva's case is still very much unsolved. There was a flurry of activity in March 1997, when the police searched a vacant home on Page Mill Road, but nothing substantial has happened since then. If you have any information about Ylva's disappearance, please contact the police: Belmont Police by email or telephone at 650.595.7400 Palo Alto Police, Detective Luis Verbera, at 650.329.2348 Native wild flowers near her tree... |
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| PorchlightUSA | Mar 12 2010, 10:49 PM Post #9 |
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Belmont Police Department 650-595-7400 police@belmont.gov Agency Case Number: 96-1522 NCIC Number: M-9700693207 |
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