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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2020 21:03:26 GMT
Search and Rescue crews have found a woman alive after she had been missing for 12 days in Zion National Park. Holly Suzanne Courtier was found within Zion National Park Sunday. Park Rangers say they received a credible tip from a park visitor that they had seen Courtier within the park. Courtier has reportedly been reunited with her family and has left the park. The family provided the following statement: “We are overjoyed that she was found safely today. We would like to thank the rangers and search teams who relentlessly looked for her day and night and never gave up hope. We are also so grateful to the countless volunteers who were generous with their time, resources, and support. This wouldn’t have been possible without the network of people who came together.” Officials say 38-year-old Courtier was dropped off by a private shuttle bus on October 6 at the Grotto parking area at 1:30 p.m. She was supposed to be picked up later that afternoon around 4:40 p.m. but she did not return. The search continued for nearly 2 weeks with Zion National Park Rangers along with Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Multiple members of the public also helped in the search for Courtier.
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2020 22:18:19 GMT
Deputies with the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office are searching for a missing 12 year-old Beatrice Kizmyte.
Beatrice was last seen about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at a home on Candor Place in Simpsonville, deputies said.
Beatrice is described as a white female, 5’2”/80lbs with blonde hair and blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing white shoes and grey leggings, but her shirt description is unknown.
Deputies ask for anyone who sees her to call 911 immediately.
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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2020 5:17:07 GMT
A mother was arrested and charged after she falsely reported her 3-year-old girl missing in Crystal Lake, but it later turned out the girl was never missing, police said. Lisa N. Shader, 38, of Crystal Lake, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct making a false police report, a Class 4 felony. The Crystal Lake Police Department received a 911 call around 12:15 p.m. Wednesday from a residence in the 0-100 block of Berkshire Lane in Crystal Lake. The caller, identified as Shader, reported her 3-year-old girl, named Ivy, as being missing, according to Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Thomas Kotlowski. Around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, officers developed information that the child was not actually missing as previously reported. The child was located safe and unharmed at a separate Crystal Lake residence with an acquaintance of the mother, Kotlowski said.
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Post by Admin on Nov 4, 2020 22:51:03 GMT
A missing 14-year-old California girl was found in a closet and three adults were arrested for allegedly helping to hide her, the Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office reported on Monday. The teen had apparently spent time in a dirt-floor crawl space reached by a hidden trap door. The discovery came more than a week after the girl was reported missing. Her mother told sheriff’s deputies that the girl had permission to spend a few nights with a friend in West Point, 20 miles east of Jackson in the Sierra foothills. When a family member went to pick her up on Oct. 22, the occupants of the house said the girl had left on foot. The house was searched, and no sign of the girl was found. On the evening of Oct. 30, having received a search warrant, deputies returned to the West Point house. Though the residents again insisted the girl was not there, another search was conducted. She was found “intentionally hiding” among clothes hanging at the corner of two adjoining closets. “As deputies continued to search the residence for evidence, they located a hidden ‘trapdoor’ that led to a makeshift sleeping area located on the dirt floor under the house,” the sheriff’s report said. “Inside the sleeping area, detectives located bedding and a phone belonging to [the girl].” Three people were arrested: Isaiah Haggard, 20, and Annie Pearl Abernathy, 41. Accused of providing false information to a peace officer, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and felony child endangerment. Held on $100,000 bail each. Jose Tinocopureco, 34. Accused of providing false information to a peace officer and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Booked and released with a citation for the misdemeanor charges. The girl was said to be unharmed and was reunited with her parents.
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Post by Admin on Nov 8, 2020 5:16:04 GMT
IN APRIL 2017, a man started hiking in a state park just north of New York City. He wanted to get away, maybe from something and maybe from everything. He didn’t bring a phone; he didn’t bring a credit card. He didn’t even really bring a name. Or at least he didn’t tell anyone he met what it was. He did bring a giant backpack, which his fellow hikers considered far too heavy for his journey. And he brought a notebook, in which he would scribble notes about Screeps, an online programming game. The Appalachian Trail runs through the area, and he started walking south, moving slowly but steadily down through Pennsylvania and Maryland. He told people he met along the way that he had worked in the tech industry and he wanted to detox from digital life. Hikers sometimes acquire trail names, pseudonyms they use while deep in the woods. He was “Denim” at first, because he had started his trek in jeans. Later, it became “Mostly Harmless,” which is how he described himself one night at a campfire. Maybe, too, it was a reference to Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Early in the series, a character discovers that Earth is defined by a single word in the guide: harmless. Another character puts in 15 years of research and then adds the adverb. Earth is now “mostly harmless.” By summer, the hiker was in Virginia, where he walked about a hundred miles with a 66-year-old woman who went by the trail name Obsidian. She taught him how to make a fire, and he told her he was eager to see a bear. On December 1, Mostly Harmless had made it to northern Georgia, where he stopped in a store called Mountain Crossings. A veteran hiker named Matt Mason was working that day, and the two men started talking. Mostly Harmless said that he wanted to figure out a path down to the Florida Keys. Mason told him about a route and a map he could download to his phone. “I don’t have a phone,” Mostly Harmless replied. Describing the moment, Mason remembers thinking, “Oh, this guy’s awesome.” Everyone who goes into the woods is trying to get away from something. But few people have the commitment to cut their digital lifelines as they put on their boots. Mason printed the 60 pages of the map and sold it to Mostly Harmless for $5 cash, which the hiker pulled from a wad of bills that Mason remembers being an inch thick. Mason loves hikers who are a little bit different, a little bit strange. He asked Mostly Harmless if he could take a picture. Mostly Harmless hesitated but then agreed. He then left the shop and went on his way. Two weeks later, Mason heard from a friend in Alabama who had seen Mostly Harmless hiking through a snowstorm. “He was out there with a smile on his face, walking south,” Mason recalls. By the last week of January, he was in northern Florida, walking on the side of Highway 90, when a woman named Kelly Fairbanks pulled over to say hello. Fairbanks is what is known as a “trail angel,” someone who helps out through-hikers who pass near her, giving them food and access to a shower if they want. She was out looking for a different hiker when she saw Mostly Harmless. She pulled over, and they started to chat. He said that he had started in New York and was heading down to Key West. She asked if he was using the Florida Trail App, and he responded that he didn’t have a phone. Fairbanks took notice of his gear—which was a mix of high-end and generic, including his black-and-copper trekking poles. And she was struck by his rugged, lonely look. “He had very kind eyes. I saw the huge beard first and thought, ‘It’s an older guy.’ But his eyes were so young, and he didn’t have crow's feet. I realized he was a lot younger.” She was concerned though, the way she used to be concerned about her two younger brothers. The trail could be confusing, and it wouldn’t be long before everything started getting intolerably hot and muggy. “I remembered him because I was worried,” she added. Six months later and 600 miles south, on July 23, 2018, two hikers headed out into the Big Cypress National Preserve. The humidity was oppressive, but they trudged forward, crossing swamps, tending aching feet, and dodging the alligators and snakes. About 10 miles into their journey, they stopped to rest their feet at a place called Nobles Camp. There they saw a yellow tent and a pair of boots outside. Something smelled bad, and something seemed off. They called out, then peered through the tent’s windscreen. An emaciated, lifeless body was looking up at them. They called 911. “Uh, we just found a dead body.” IT’S USUALLY EASY to put a name to a corpse. There’s an ID or a credit card. There’s been a missing persons report in the area. There’s a DNA match. But the investigators in Collier County couldn’t find a thing. Mostly Harmless’ fingerprints didn’t show up in any law enforcement database. He hadn’t served in the military, and his fingerprints didn’t match those of anyone else on file. His DNA didn’t match any in the Department of Justice’s missing person database or in CODIS, the national DNA database run by the FBI. A picture of his face didn’t turn up anything in a facial recognition database. The body had no distinguishing tattoos. Nor could investigators understand how or why he died. There were no indications of foul play, and he had more than $3,500 cash in the tent. He had food nearby, but he was hollowed out, weighing just 83 pounds on a 5'8" frame. Investigators put his age in the vague range between 35 and 50, and they couldn’t point to any abnormalities. The only substances he tested positive for were ibuprofen and an antihistamine. His cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was “undetermined.” He had, in some sense, just wasted away. But why hadn’t he tried to find help? Almost immediately, people compared Mostly Harmless to Chris McCandless, whose story was the subject of Into the Wild. McCandless, though, had been stranded in the Alaska bush, trapped by a raging river as he ran out of food. He died on a school bus, starving, desperate for help, 22 miles of wilderness separating him from a road. Mostly Harmless was just 5 miles from a major highway. He left no note, and there was no evidence that he had spent his last days calling out for help.
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