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The Dartmouth
April 23, 2026
The Dartmouth

A Message from Overseas

To the Editor:

My name is Gudrun Wilde. I am a lawyer and live in Munich, Germany. I was Susanne's best friend when she and I went to school together in Hagen, Germany, and we always kept in touch and visited each other over the years. The last time she sent me an e-mail was in December 2000.

I want very much to get in touch with the Zantop daughters but I do not have their addresses in Seattle and New York nor do I have an e-mail-address for them. I have posted a letter to them at the address of their parents in Etna, but I am not sure that that letter will actually reach them and when.

I read your Internet pages every day hoping to read soon that the perpetrator(s) has (have) been arrested. While it is difficult to understand why any human being kills a fellow human being, it is even more difficult to understand why somebody should pick the Zantops, who were so friendly and open and always ready to help others.