A home in Redwood City is being investigated by the Belmont Police Department in conjunction with the FBI after it is allegedly linked to the disappearance of a woman in San Mateo County nearly 27 years ago.
Since Wednesday morning, Redwood City residents have witnessed a large police presence at 3789 Farm Hill Blvd., where officers have surrounded the house to search for evidence related to the unsolved case of the sudden disappearance of 42-year-old Ylva Hagner, last seen on October 14, 1996.
The case of the disappearance of the then software executive remained frozen for 27 years, until this Wednesday, when everything seems to be reopened due to new evidence.
According to the media NBC Bay Area, authorities have used ground-penetrating radar, focusing mainly on the backyard and a park near the home.
Hagner, who was last seen on Oct. 14, 1996, was a resident of Palo Alto, and according to authorities, had just left the Belmont office where she worked as a product marketing manager at Ixos Co. that day, while her car was found in San Carlos with the keys still in the ignition but her purse missing.
At the time, one of those questioned about Hagner's disappearance was her then-boyfriend, Thomas Pressburger, a computer programmer at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
A source close to the investigation told NBC Bay Area that authorities were first focusing on the backyard of Pressburger's home. Pressburger was reached by phone at his home but declined to comment.
"The investigation has been refocused and we're here today to try to close the case," Belmont Police Lt. Pete Lotti told NBC Bay Area. "The public is safe at this point, we're just doing our due diligence on the case to follow up."
Lotti said that both the FBI and investigators from the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office are involved in the search that is being conducted in both the park and the house, in order to close a case that has remained unsolved for almost 27 years.
"It's a long time," Lotti said.
With information from NBC Bay Area.
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