A British father wants to reopen the case after his daughter’s disappearance. On the 20th anniversary of the disappearance, he hopes to get new tips.
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It has been twenty years since Louise Kerton (24) disappeared. The woman spent several weeks with her fiancé with her future in-laws in Germany after failing her senior year of nursing. She would return to England from Germany by taking the ferry to Dover in Ostend. Her boyfriend’s mother dropped her off at Aachen station on July 30, 2001. Somewhere along that route, Louise disappeared without a trace. It is not even certain that she ever left Aachen.
Louise’s boyfriend Peter Simon had already traveled to Dover to fix things in their apartment. He was waiting for her on the 30th of July. When she didn’t get off the ferry, he called Louise’s sister in panic. “He cried. He yelled that she must be dead. We responded that he should not panic and that she would be on the next ferry.”
Suspects
The family suspected Simon, or his schizophrenic brother Michael. The latter had already been charged with the murder of a woman in Kent. But they were never formally charged or even questioned, as the family refused to cooperate with the investigation.
“I just want to know what happened to her,” says her father, who tries to make people aware about the case with her photo in the Ostend station. “I kept the same cell phone number all this time hoping to hear from her. As impossible as that sounds.”
The private detective hired by the parents was also never able to clarify. The search message for Louise is also with us always online.
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