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Hi all,
I am Duncan's mother. I just stumbled across this article tonight.
Thanks to all for your interest in the story.
I just wanted to point out a few things
Walter, the snowboard instructor, has provided contradictory information, so his credibility is an issue.
In 1989, Walter told us that when Duncan entered the ski school office on the morning of August 9, he already had remt d the Duret snowboard and boots from the rental,shop on the glacier (just across the hall from Walter's ski school office.
In 2006, Walter told CBC fifth estate the same thing for the documentary (The Iceman). However, in 2011,hen acBB fifth estate did the second documentary, he told CBC that he went with Dincan to the re tal,shop and helped Dincan pick out the board.
Further contradictory information provided by Walte: in 1993, to a German television program that air d on Sat 1, he said that Duncan was very. Authors, was aware of the boundaries. He created the impression nothing could,happen to,Duncan on the ski slope.
Then, after Duncan was found in the middle of the ski slope, he changed his story. He told CBC fifth estate (for 2006 documentary, A Cold Case) that Duncan was fearless, that he was a "Canadian hotdog."
Further contradiction by Walter - in 1989, and 1999, he gave a sworn statement that his girlfriend, Daniela (who was co-ownerbof the snowboarding school) saw Duncan on the piste at 2:30 pm. Daniela also told us, and police the same story in 1989.
Then, in 2014, Walter told me that Daniela was not even on the glacier on August 9, 1989.
I have no idea why Walter has provided different versions of these three events, but for sure it raises the question of his credibility, and raises the question of whether he knows far more about what happen d to Duncan than he is saying. casts a question on his cseems to me that n knows far more about wnat happened to Duncan than he is saying.
Waltwr is not the only liar in this story - in fact it is a story of liars. Polic lied about the location of,death,,telling the Austrian media Duncan was found 120 meters east of the tow,(which placed Duncan outside the controlled ski area). In fact,,Duncan was found 30 meters east of the tow.
Police did. It attend the death scene. Four unnamed slope workers conducted insupervis d recovery of the body. Duncan''s Saskatchewan driver's license was not return d to us. There are only two possible ilities here - either the slope workers removed it from the corpse in 2003, or, and more likely, it was left with the rental shop in 1989 as security for the rental equipment, and when Duncan did not return at the end of the day, someone who knew why he had not returned, destroyed the license.
The receipt for the snowboard rental, his lift ticket, car keys, and shoes have not be n returns to us.
We personally found the serial number for the Duret snowboard at the death site, a week after slope workers conducted insupervised recovery operations. We also found fragments of Duncan's bones I I guess the slope workers could Not be bothered to pick them up.
An hour after his frozen body was rcovered from th glacier, the coroner examined the completely frozen body, and concluded death due to multiple trauma after fall into crevasse. The public Ptosecutor immediately released the body to the undertaker
No one examined the body for injury.
The Public Prosecutor refused our request for an autopsy.
The coroner falsified the Death Report, stating an autopsy had been conducted.
To reconstruct the accident, police relied only on the speculatiive theory of three slope workers, all of whom sang the same song, and offered no evidence to support their theory. They speculated Duncan "probably climbed over a fence", and fell into a crevasse. That simplistic, and unsubstantiated story, was good enough for police. I guess they saw no need to consult forensic experts, or professional glaciologist.
On 19 July, RCMP notified us Duncan's body had been found. We made immediate arrangements to travel to Innsbruck to claim his body. Only hours before our arrival in Innsbruck, police had Duncan's body transported from the funeral home to the Fornsic Institute, together with an order to have Dincan's jaws removed, for what they said was "identification purposes". Why on earth would Austrian authorities inform the Canadain Of mbassu Duncan had benn found, have RCMP provide us oPofficial notification, and then four days later, after we've flown halfway around the world, dthe decide you need to do an identification? Duncan was readily identifiable by next of kin. All of Dincan's identification (except his driver's license) was found with the body. And, in 1997, we had left our DNA with Innsbruck authorities.
If police had succeeded in their attempt to mitigate Duncan's body by ripping his face off, we would have been denied us the opportunity to view his body, and say goodbye.
Duncan's body remained at the Forensic Institute, yet according to the forensic pathologist, Dr. Rabl, he did not examine the body. He assumed any injury sustained must have bee caused by "ice movement." Really? Ice movement would completely sever the left leg (which was directly underneath the right leg) and yet the right leg sustained no damage).
Numerous other forensic pathologists that have examined the photos of Duncan's injuries disagree with Dr Rabl, as do professional glaciologists. These professionals state that the injuries result from mechanical means.
Duncan's death certificate does not provide day, month, or year of death. It's as if he never existed.
Even the most diralects in society, including Adolf Hitler, are afforded the dignity of having their fate of death documented. So, why not Duncan?
Of course, the only reason authorities refused to document date of death is because to do so would connect his death to his snowboarding activities of August 9, and authorities were just not going to allow that to happen. The "Godfather of the valley" (the ski operator) would not want thatand that.
In spite of our efforts to find out if there had been any other sudden disappearances/fatal accidents on the ski slope, for 14 years police assured us no one had disappeared from the ski slope, and there had been no fatal accidents. That was a bold-faced lie.
In fact, in August 1988, a young Asian man suffered a fatal accident in the same crevasse area where Duncan vanished one year later.
At closing time, the young man's friend reported that he had not seen his friend since 1:00 pm. A search began, and Rescue people quickly found him in a crevasse near support 7 (exactly where Duncan was found one year later). The young man died in hospital on August 9 from complications of hypothermia.
The police officer (Franz Brecher) that conducted the 1988 investigation of the young Asian man, also conducted the 1989 investigation of Duncan's sudden disappearance from the same area of the ski slope. Apparently the police officer suffered memory lapse, as it did not occur to him to mention that it was highly probable Duncan had suffered a similar accident. The police officer told us that most likely after Duncan returned rhe snowboard (a lie), he went for a hike in the "vast mountainous area" and got lost. The police officer told German TV that he believed one day a hunter would find Duncan "behind a rock"
For 14 years, police assured us the ski slope was 100% safe for skiing, and that "nothing could happen to Duncan on the safe, and controlled ski slope." If it is so safe, why did two people lose their life in the same place within the space of one year?
For 14 years, police assured us the rented Diret board and boots had been returned. That was a bold-faced lie,
Accidents are one thing; they happen to anyone, and there is nothing anyone can do except to conduct a but A proper investigation, and learn something From the tragedy; and hopefully put in place measures that may prvent similar accident from occurring again. If police had conducted a proper investigation of the young Asian's death in 1988, and the ski slope was more closely regulated to ensure adequate snow cover over crevasses in late August, there is a good chance Duncan would not have lost his life there in 1989?
Sorry to b so long-winded, but there were some things I thought some of you might be interested in. Feel free to ask me any questions.
Cheers, Lynda MacPherson
Ok, deine Meinung die sich so im Gesetz allerdings nicht wiederfinden, den die Würde des Menschen endet nicht mit dessen Tod. (zumindest in DE aber ich denke das es in AT ähnlich ist)Petz hat geschrieben: 04.11.2025 - 04:19 ….
Nachdem ich davon ausgehe das Duncan nicht bei lebendigem Leib und zu Betriebszeiten überfahren wurde (denn das wäre allein schon aufgrund der fräsenverursachten Blutverteilung sicher nicht unbemerkt geblieben), halte ich das ganze Tamtam das um den Fall gemacht wurde und wird, für völlig obsolet. Ein toter Körper hat für mich als nüchternen Realisten nur mehr denselben Stellenwert wie Schlachtvieh und ob man ein Rind zu Hundefutter häckselt oder das möglicherweise eine Pistenraupenfräse bewerkstelligte, macht für mich keinen Unterschied da dies nur der menschlichen Überheblichkeit geschuldet ist.
Das halte ich, zurückhaltend formuliert, für völlig abwegig.Petz hat geschrieben: 04.11.2025 - 22:18 Mir persönlich kommt der Wirbel der immer noch um den Fall gemacht wird so vor, als wäre Duncan am hellichten Tag bei lebendigem Leib geschreddert worden und alle Beteiligten hätten dann versucht den Fall zu vertuschen. Dies sehe ich für den konkreten Fall für auch deshalb unangebracht an, weil ich denke das der Pistenraupenfahrer den Vorfall möglicherweise gar nicht bemerkte. Hätte er den Kontakt wahrgenommen, wäre dieser entweder von ihm gemeldet worden oder er hätte den Korpus entkleidet in geiertaugliche Stücke zerfräst und viel großflächiger verteilt, damit die Beweise im Zuge der Ausaperung aufgefressen und damit vernichtet werden.
Wir haben alles richtig gemacht!Petz hat geschrieben: 04.11.2025 - 04:19 ... Man versuchte unter allen Umständen, einen Nachweis einer Mitschuld von Behörden zu verhindern und diese auf Zivilpersonen zu überwälzen wofür Kaprun ein Paradebeispiel ist und sich bis zur behördlichen Vorgangsweise bei den ersten Coronafällen in Ischgl beobachten lässt.
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