Costa Concordia - 5 more bodies found

It is now being reported that 5 missing Costa Concordia passengers have been found:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17472345

 

Our thoughts and prayers should go out to their families and loved ones, also for the two that are still missing.

 

Ron

Very sad but hopefully at least it will bring closure for the families.

Thank you, Ron for posting this..

Hopefully, the other bodies will be recovered too.

Such a tragic, sad loss.

Denise

Very sad but hopefully at least it will bring closure for the families.

 

It will IF the authorities unblock the ban on DNA testing needed to match the bodies with an identity. For some reason, the court stopped this, leaving loved ones in an awful state of limbo.

 

Any peep about this from Micky Arison? No? Quelle surprise. He has 'moved on'.

It will IF the authorities unblock the ban on DNA testing needed to match the bodies with an identity. For some reason, the court stopped this, leaving loved ones in an awful state of limbo.

 

Any peep about this from Micky Arison? No? Quelle surprise. He has 'moved on'.

 

Why won't they allow DNA testing? They should be doing everything they can to "reunite" families. :confused:

Why won't they allow DNA testing? They should be doing everything they can to "reunite" families. :confused:

Something about the defense lawyers halting it or wanting an expert from their side be present, I believe. It looks like they have resumed DNA testing according to this article (see update):

http://thefreelancedesk.com/?p=345

It will IF the authorities unblock the ban on DNA testing needed to match the bodies with an identity. For some reason, the court stopped this, leaving loved ones in an awful state of limbo.

 

Any peep about this from Micky Arison? No? Quelle surprise. He has 'moved on'.

 

Something about the defense lawyers halting it or wanting an expert from their side be present, I believe. It looks like they have resumed DNA testing according to this article (see update):

http://thefreelancedesk.com/?p=345

 

It was stopped, this is true, as cruiseranfromct said, by Attorney Acquarone representing Officer Bongiovanni. However, as you can imagine, there was strong objection to this & it was recommenced. The bodies have been identified now & the majority of funerals have taken place.

The last 8 bodies were identified as:

 

BAUER ELISABETH F GERMANIA

NETH MARGARETHE F GERMANIA

WERP BRUNHILD F GERMANIA

SCHROETER MARGRIT F GERMANIA

 

BLEMAND MICHAEL M FRANCIA

LITZLER MYLENE F FRANCIA

 

ARLOTTI DAYANA F ITALIA

ARLOTTI WILLIAMS M ITALIA

 

The seven still missing of which 5 have been located are:

 

GANZ CHRISTINA MATHI F GERMANIA

GANZ NORBERT JOSEF M GERMANIA

GIROLAMO GIUSEPPE M ITALIA

TRECARICHIMARIA GRAZIA F ITALIA

 

REBELLO RUSSEL TERENCE M INDIA

 

HEIL BARBARA F USA

HEIL GERALD M USA

The five bodies have now been identified as:

 

GANZ CHRISTINA MATHI F GERMANIA

GANZ NORBERT JOSEF M GERMANIA

GIROLAMO GIUSEPPE M ITALIA

HEIL BARBARA F USA

HEIL GERALD M USA

 

RIP.

Very sad news all around, but I hope this will bring some closure to their families. I know everybody is thinking of these folks. Just so very sad.

It's good that these families are able to gain closure, but I'm sure they're grieving all over again. Hoping they can find the last two to provide closure to those families as well.

 

 

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Today we received confirmation that our parents, Gerald and Barbara Heil, have been positively identified as two of the five missing passengers recovered from the Costa Concordia several weeks ago. We will now be able to move forward and bring them home to rest. The rescue and recovery crew on the island of Giglio have been relentless in their mission to find the missing and have given us hope through this whole process. We cannot thank them enough for continuing to risk their lives in an effort to find our parents. Our hearts go out to the two families that are still missing loved ones. We will continue to hope and pray for closure for those families. We will not stop praying and following the news until they have found their loved ones as well. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

 

We have so many people to thank. We want to thank everyone in Italy who helped us find our parents and treated us with hospitality. Thanks to our friends, colleagues, neighbors, family and loved ones who were always there for us. Thanks to all those who we have never met who sent us words of encouragement and prayer.

 

We would like to thank the media for respecting our privacy. This blog entry will be our last post and form of communication with the media. We are very grateful for the wonderful articles and stories you did on our parents. They were very special people and you shared this in a respectful manner. We know our parents are together and are happy. We look forward to the day when we can all be together again.

 

Thank you,

 

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