Missing U.S. Officer Arrives in Germany [View All]

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Missing U.S. Officer Arrives in Germany
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Sep 10, 2:51 PM (ET)

By LEILA SARALAYEVA

BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) - A U.S. Air Force major who went missing for three days arrived at a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday, and a senior Kyrgyz police official said that her departure "strongly complicates" the probe into her disappearance.

Maj. Jill Metzger vanished Tuesday in Bishkek, the capital of this former Soviet republic, while shopping for souvenirs at a department store before a scheduled departure from the country on Friday.

A massive search involving Kyrgyz and U.S. investigators came up empty until late Friday, when police said Metzger knocked on the door of a house in Kant, about 22 miles from the capital, and said she had been abducted.


Maj. Jill Metzger, 33, a personnel officer at the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing at Manas Air Base, Kyrgyzstan, is shown in an undated handout photo. Metzger, who was declared missing following her visit to a Bishkek shopping center Sept. 5, 2006, was found on the side of the road with her head shaven, father-in-law Kelly Mayo said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Colorado Springs on Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force Photo-HO)


The 33-year-old officer was taken out of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday. She arrived Sunday at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan for medical exams and debriefing, a statement from U.S. Air Forces Europe headquarters said.

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