The remains of a Continuation Two years ago a woman who went missing on a hike to Japan A proclaimed family.
Patti Vo-Murad disappeared in April 2023 during solo hikes to central Japan. Despite the wide search on the Kuman Kuman trail, which included American and Japanese search groups, the US Embassy and the FBI, it was not revealed.
In September 2024, more than a year and a half after its disappearance, the fisherman found a backpack of the storage and one tourist shoes near the stream along another trail, from where her family initially thought she was going on, the family said. Japanese officials started another search in the field, but there was no additional evidence.
Earlier this year, a member of the US initial search group, who was in Japan in April, sent the area where the backpack was found, and discovered some other personal subjects, and what seemed to be hips, her family said in a social media message.
On May 9, the family said that DNA testing using a sample of Vu-Murad's daughter confirmed that the remains were the match.
“Although we tried to prepare for this result, the finality of this news is great,” her family said on Facebook. “This offers a measure of closing, but many questions remain unanswered, including the exact circumstances and cause of Patti's death. Now we are starting the work process through international protocols to bring her home.”
The Wa-Murad family said she hoped that more evidence would be found that shed light on what had happened.
“In the coming months and years there will be more people on this trail, and maybe they will face more evidence,” – her husband Kirk Murad, said NBC Connecticut.
The family expressed gratitude to the search teams, volunteers and the expatrio they received over the past two years.
“Patti was an incredible woman whose love and friendship touched upon a lot of lives,” they said. “While we are devastated, we are also humiliated by the global community that rallied to help find it. We will continue to honor her memory with love and gratitude in our hearts.”