Gunnel Gummeson

Gunnel Gummeson (born 1930, declared dead in absentia 8 February 1977), was a Swedish school teacher, last seen travelling in northern Afghanistan with her American fiancé Peter Winant in 1956.

Three governors were fired, 10,000 riders were sent out and so many people were arrested that the jails became overcrowded, according to the reports of the Swedish embassy advisor Lennart Petri.

In 1961, the investigations were finally completed and the foreign minister of Afghanistan gave a formal statement concluding that both missing persons were likely to have been murdered in Sheberghan.

[2] In May 1963, the cabinet secretary of the Swedish foreign office, Leif Belfrage, received a confidential personal letter from the US ambassador J. Graham Parsons with the information that Gummeson was likely being kept in captivity as the daughter-in-law of a wealthy clan chief in Qaisar, Kala Khan, and also that she had allegedly had to give birth to a son.

Asked by the American priest, "Joe" travelled to Maimana territory dressed as a toy merchant, entered the summer camp of Kala Khan and there met a blond boy with European features.

In June, King Zahir Shah sent a team of 175 elite soldiers dressed as road workers to search through every village and nomad camp for Gummeson.