MISSING SIMI VALLEY MOM'S KIN STILL SEARCH.Byline: ERIC LEACH Staff Writer Authorities are investigating the disappearance of a 25-year-old Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. mother who was last seen Saturday walking down a desolate dirt road dirt road n (US) → camino sin firme dirt road n → chemin non macadamisé or non revêtu dirt road dirt n east of the Owens Valley This article has multiple issues: * It needs to be expanded. * It may need copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. town of Independence. ``It's not like a normal missing-person case,'' said Detective Paul Bedell Bedell could refer to A person:
Her mother, Judy Cairns Cairns, city (1991 pop. 64,463), Queensland, NE Australia, on Trinity Bay. It is a principal sugar port of Australia; lumber and other agricultural products are also exported. The city's proximity to the Great Barrier Reef has made it a tourist center. of Simi Valley, said her daughter had just graduated from Pierce College In 2006 the Library won a national Excellence award. Academics Pierce College offers associate's degrees, mainly in the arts and sciences. There are also certificate programs in early childhood education, social services, dental hygienist, and others. in Woodland Hills and had planned to attend California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , and become a teacher. Fox had given her no clue she was planning to go on a trip to the remote high desert area dotted with mine shafts. ``After her car broke down, she took a blanket, and her purse and her clothes and walked about eight miles, dropping her stuff along the way,'' her mother said. ``The dogs followed her scent to a mine shaft and it just stopped. My two sons have been out there for days and are still out there searching.'' Authorities were particularly concerned that she might succumb to daytime temperatures of more than 100 degrees, but Bedell said someone may have given her a ride. ``We're concerned she hasn't contacted anyone in her family,'' he said Thursday. Her Volkswagen Jetta apparently broke down Friday night or Saturday, and she got some water from a group of campers who passed by Saturday afternoon. The next day, the case was reported to authorities, who launched a massive search after her purse was found by the road with $900 inside. That search was suspended Thursday, although the missing woman's brothers continued to look for her. Her relatives were all at a loss to explain why the 5-foot-tall, 100- pound blond woman who has a 5-year-old son would have driven alone down the remote dirt road. ``From what I know, she would have had no idea how to get there,'' said her estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. husband. ``She wouldn't have gone there by herself.'' Tracey Somes, the sister-in-law of the missing woman, spent days searching in the Owens Valley with her husband Reese, Renee's brother. ``It's a mystery,'' she said. ``I'm very worried.'' eric.leach(at)dailynews.com (805) 583-7602 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: FOX |
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