Denise Thiem, a visitor from the United States, was motivated to walk the Camino de Santiago, a historic Catholic pilgrimage whose popularity has increased dramatically in recent years, three months ago after seeing the 2010 film “The Way.” She was scheduled to begin a second part of the 155-mile journey from the village of Astorga in northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela on Easter Sunday, April 5. After breakfast with an Italian pilgrim, she accompanied him to Mass and a religious procession before they split up around midday.
Ms. Thiem had emailed a British pilgrim she had met earlier on the Camino to let him know she would be walking the few miles west to the village of El Ganso the next day. Nobody heard from her again after that. Additionally, Spain’s national police have not provided any additional information regarding the search for the missing woman since Tina Ascher, one of her acquaintances, put together her final known activities.
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