The husband returned alone, after about four hours, from a boat trip that the couple had taken one evening from Traunkirchen to Rindbach; on the Tuesday evening at about nine o’clock he arrived at the fisherman Moser’s in a state of great agitation and stated that during the storm that had suddenly arisen his wife had been thrown out of the boat, one of the old skiffs that are still to be found on the Traun lake, and had drowned. He had done all in his power to save her. His wife had suddenly gone down. Finally, he stated, he had feared for his own life and had turned back and had managed with the greatest difficulty to reach the shore. A search undertaken on the following day yielded no results. Three days later, after all hope had been abandoned, the husband had held a service in the parish church, and a year later he installed a black marble tablet to the memory of his drowned wife in the wall of that same church that was closest to the lake. Shortly afterwards he got married. That was in 1973. Two years later, divers discovered a body on the lake bed and, as the weather was favorable, brought it up onto the shore; the body had a cord around its neck, and attached to the cord was a boundary stone from Altmünster parish. The body was that of the woman alleged to have drowned.