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In May 2019, Asefa, 21, went to school and disappeared.
Two years later, she is still gone without a trace.
– We have no idea what could have happened, says Niclas Juneskog in the Vimmerby police.
On the morning of May 22, 2019, Asefa Mohammad Dawod, 21, went to school and then disappeared without a trace. Almost two years later, no one yet knows what happened to him.
– He feels desperate, I have done everything I can, says his little brother Reza, 20 years old.
He had recently turned 18 when Asefa disappeared and has clear memories of the dark day. The night before, the family had dinner and laughed together.
– I had a national exam, went to school and came home. Then I called her and she didn’t answer. After that I went to my soccer practice and when I came back she was still not home.
Reza then started calling her sister’s friends, but no one was with her or knew where she was.
– Then I got worried. I went to her school but the teachers said that she had not been to school. Then I called the police and reported him missing, he says.
– I was so scared because she never used to do it without warning.
The last sure trace of Asefa by the police was when a classmate saw her at school at 9:15 a.m. They have also received clues that she was spotted in the morning at Norra Oskarsgatan, between the sports hall and Willys, who is on her way to and from school.
The investigation first concerned a missing person, but after a few weeks, the police classified the case as kidnapping.
– There were indications that the disappearance could be involuntary, says Niclas Juneskog in the Vimmerby police, who led the preliminary investigation.
– Actually, it was based on pretty vague information, but at the same time it opened up a completely different toolbox for us.
Technical information from Asefa’s mobile phone led investigators to an area around Linden Lake, just over a mile west of Hultsfred.
– This is the last clue we have after Asefa. It’s a technical clue, not after her as a person but after her belonging, says Niclas Juneskog.
– We found a place where we search with dogs and drones and Missing Persons and it has not given anything.
The 70s went bald
Two days after the disappearance, the Missing People organization had started running in Hultsfred. Around 70 people had helped, but to no avail.
Since then, they have helped the police in small efforts to comb the area around Linden, which consists mainly of forests, with occasional summer cottages and some permanent dwellings.
– We got it when the police had run with their resources there and we have a large area left, but it is very difficult terrain, says Tessan Jigfjord, operations manager for Missing People in Jönköping, who is leading the search.
– We don’t give up. We continue even if it took a long time to find it, of course. But it is important to have something good to go on, where we should apply. Otherwise we will have to search the whole of Sweden or the whole world.
“He wanted to move house”
Asefa and Reza lost their parents early and grew up in Afghanistan with their grandparents. At the end of 2014, they moved to Sweden to start a new life in the small community of Småland.
– We lived a completely normal life and we were happy, then suddenly this happens out of nowhere, says Reza.
She does not recall anything being particularly different in the days leading up to the disappearance, even though her sister was a bit depressed.
– He was a little sad and I asked him what the problem was and he told me that he did not do so well in school and that it was difficult for him to get a job, he says.
– It was just that, it’s normal to get angry about things. Otherwise it was quiet.
Wanted to move
Asefa studied at Komvux. Reza describes her sister as shy, calm, independent, and quite quiet.
– She kept everything to herself and didn’t say if she had problems or anything. He didn’t party every weekend, but he had two or three close friends that he hung out with a lot, he says.
– One of her friends says she said she wanted to move house and get a job and fend for herself and so on, but she has never discussed that with us.
On March 8, Asefa turns 23 years old. Reza and her grandparents refuse to stop waiting for her to be found safe.
– All we want to know is that she is alive and well. It doesn’t matter where you are and if you don’t want to go home, that’s fine; if he’s happy, we are too.
“No clue”
But the case has been closed since December 28 of last year.
– We have examined the advice and suggestions that we have had and it has not led us to anything that brings us closer to any theory about what could have happened, says Niclas Juneskog.
– But if a tip arrives, we will take care of it immediately. We would be very grateful if anything else comes up because we don’t have any more leads to go on.
It has not been in many cases where someone disappears without a trace.
– It definitely stands out. It’s not very common for people to disappear and then not be found in any way, he says.
– It makes you think about this case from time to time. The advice that has come in does not point in any direction. It could be anything, it’s only the imagination that stops it. We have no idea what could have happened.
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