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“ As she travelled downstream, Koepcke discovered more wreckage from the plane — and found some of the crash victims. “I found another row of seats with three dead women still strapped in. They had landed head-first and the impact must have been so hard that they were buried almost two feet into the ground. “I was horrified — I didn’t want to touch them but I wanted to make sure that my mother wasn’t one of them. So I took a stick and knocked a shoe off one of the bodies. The toe nails had nail polish on them and I knew it could not have been my mother because she never used nail polish.” Juliane continued through the rainforest, wading through jungle streams infested with crocodiles, piranhas and devil rays. ”