Is Scientology key to solving a young woman’s disappearance? Police want to know.
What a treat it was this week to speak with Ursula Caberta, someone we haven’t heard from in several years. Longtime readers will remember that Ursula was a political figure in Germany who spearheaded a state-sponsored effort to expose Scientology abuses in that country.
She retired several years ago, but on Wednesday we spoke to her by phone and she asked for the help of the Bunker community. We’re certain that our readers are eager to help if they can!
Ursula was speaking about a case that has mystified the authorities in Germany for a few years now. On September 25, 2019, a 23-year-old Leipzig woman named Yolanda Klug told her roommates that she was going on a shopping trip to a nearby IKEA before meeting a friend. But she never met up with the friend, and she never returned. According to phone records, her phone was turned off at 2:15 pm that afternoon, and never turned on again.
Her passport was still at home, and she had about 8,000 euros in the bank that went untouched, which cast some doubt on the idea that she had simply decided to go elsewhere.
Over time, the case has gained notoriety in the country, not the least because Yolanda’s family is heavily involved in Scientology, and Yolanda herself apparently had left the church a couple of years before her disappearance. The night before her disappearance, she had met her Scientologist father for dinner. In an interview, he said that his daughter was talking about taking a trip to Jordan.
According to German police, Yolanda had a health condition that caused her to have fainting spells. After her disappearance was reported, police used dogs to find traces of Yolanda’s scent at the IKEA and the area where she was supposed to meet her friend but never did.
Ursula tells us that no one has accused Scientology or Yolanda’s Scientologist parents of being involved in Yolanda’s disappearance. But after nearly three years of dead ends, they are finally starting to ask some more questions about the church.
And for that reason, they reached out to Ursula to get some background on the organization.
In particular, Ursula says the police are interested in learning more about Yolanda’s sister, who reportedly is a Sea Org member in Los Angeles, and also has the last name of Klug. Ursula says that the sister came to Germany and met with Yolanda shortly before her disappearance.
Ursula wants to know if anyone in the Bunker community has any information about the sister, and particularly what her role might be in the Sea Org in Los Angeles. If you know something, please drop us a line.
Again, we want to stress that no accusations have been made about Yolanda’s father in Germany or her mother, who is in Switzerland, and their involvement in Scientology. But the police, after three years of fruitless searching, want more information about Scientology to help them get the total picture.
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