A house located in Redwood City is being investigated by the Belmont Police Department in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation ?FBI, for its acronym in English?, after it is allegedly related to the disappearance of a woman in the county of San Matthew almost 27 years ago.
Since this Wednesday morning, residents of Redwood City have been able to witness a large police movement at 3789 Farm Hill Blvd, where agents have surrounded the house to search for evidence related to the unsolved case of the sudden disappearance of Ylva Hagner, 42 years old, 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, concentrating mainly on the backyard and a park near the home.
Hagner, who was last seen on October 14, 1996, was a resident of Palo Alto, and according to authorities, had just left the Belmont office that day where he worked as a product marketing manager at Ixos Co, while his car was found in San Carlos with the keys still in it, but her bag was missing.
Back then, one of those questioned in Hagner's disappearance was her then-boyfriend, Thomas Pressburger, a computer programmer at the Mountain View-based NASA Ames Research Center.
A source close to the investigation told NBC Bay Area that authorities were first targeting the backyard of Pressburger's home, who was contacted 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 on it."
Lotti pointed out that both the FBI and the investigators from the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office are involved in the search that is being carried out both in the park and in the house, in order to close a case that for almost 27 years has remained unresolved.
"It's a long time," Lotti said.
With reporting from NBC Bay Area.
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