A Roman Catholic nun and theology teacher at St. Anthony's High School on Long Island, New York, Sister Eileen Christie retired in 2015, and in the summer of 2016, took a solo, multi-stop vacation to Austria. It wasn't the 72-year-old Christie's first time traveling alone, nor her first trip to Austria. On July 6, during a planned six-day stay in the town of Hallstatt, Christie sent a check-in email to her nephew, Bill Freda, as she'd done throughout her vacation; she told him she was going grocery shopping. After he failed to receive any more emails, Freda got worried and reported his aunt missing. Authorities in Austria investigated Christie's room at the Haus Jodler hotel and found the missing woman's wallet, passport, and phone, which included recent photos of a visit to an Alpine area. Police also discovered that Christie never made it to her next scheduled stop, in Innsbruck, and that her credit card wasn't used after the day of the disappearance.
After a week-long search, it was evident that Christie had simply and inexplicably vanished. "The authorities in Austria have conducted extensive investigations for her, but to no avail," Christie's parish priest, Rev. Joseph Mirro, told the Long-Islander News. "We'll be praying for her safe return." "Either it was a hiking accident, a swimming accident or foul play," Freda added. "We really don't know which of those is the ultimate answer."
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