'Missing 411', by David Paulides: Tracking unusual missing persons cases

Sad, angelburst29, cause we are both putting missing people on this thread at the same time.

And unfortunately, here are a couple of odd stories. One was missing and now just found and the other is still missing. Heart wrenching for the families is an understatement and the evidence may lead somewhere else, yet it seems off.

This first case is of Alison Leanne Raspa of Australia who was working at a ski resort, Whistler, in the mountains north of Vancouver, BC. On the date of November 23rd, 2018, she went missing and she has since just today been found.

Facts are hard to assess as they remain outside the public preview and most of the articles say very little, even today when she was found, other than the RCMP don't see it as a crime, or so they saying yet not why.

This link gives you the basics and there is a little video with overlaid points as to when when and where she went missing back in November.

Here is what I get: http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/police-reveal-australian-missing-in-whistler-sent-final-desperate-text-messages-to-friends/news-story/401d7a905742eee543d629366cfcb1b2

1. Alison left a bar, the 'Three Below Bar' on the night of Nov. 22 - assuming just before midnight.
2. She has not been seen till just after midnight.
3. Rumors had it that there was an altercation outside the bar/restaurant which was later dismissed from an employee who was there and said nothing of the sort happened.
4. Between the time she left and around 1:00 am she somehow went about 7km to the Alpha Lake Park.
5. Why 1:00 am, apparently, some friends received texts from her saying she was lost; these friends might have been in Australia, not sure, however, no one seemed to do anything about it regardless. The texts have not been provided as evidence.
6 . Why there at Alpha Lake Park? They know this because "Her jacket, backpack and wallet were found in the same area by a local later that day."
7. That day (in the morning after she failed to report for her work shift) she was reported missing and a search took place and was stepped up in earnest after her items were found.
8. The news (various Canadian sites) echo the statements that sometimes people take off their coats when they get hypothermia (possible).
9. The search became intense with underwater divers in the lake, sonar, search and rescue, fire and police and volunteers - noting day after day. Her family arrived and joined in the search.
10. "The search to date (has) been extensive and has circumnavigated the park, lakes, as well as the road/trails/parkades leaving from the village to Alpha Lake Park. At this point all available leads have been exhausted." https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/police-suspend-ground-search-for-missing-australian-woman/Content?oid=5866520
11. It seems the search was called off around December 5th with the family continuing with a small party.
12. In the video you can see very little snow, and the temps might have been hovering to a low of -5 c.

Here is a block of text:

“She spoke with a friend in the Village Stroll area and later investigators believe Ms Raspa may have taken public transport to an area near Highway 99 and Lake Placid Road (before) walking west toward Alpha Lake,” Sgt Hayes said. {there is nothing I can find that verifies anything said}

“At approximately 1.15am, Ms Raspa texted some of her friends to confirm she was lost. {nothing verifies this yet}

“A citizen found a jacket, backpack and wallet belonging to Ms Raspa. These items were found near Highway 99 and Lake Placid Road.

13. “Her cell phone was located by another citizen in Alpha Lake Park.”

14. A point to make: "Police have refused to say whether Ms Raspa was intoxicated when she left the Three Below bar and owner Priyanka Kathuria declined to be interviewed while the investigation is ongoing."
15. Another few points to add: {people not revealed said} "They included claims she had been “upset” by “something that happened at work” before going missing." and "Police are looking through the camera footage where Alison works so they can observe her on a day-to-day basis in the days before she disappeared,” the insider said.
16. A physical point to add: "They had believed Ms Raspa would be safe travelling on her own thanks to her expertise in Kung Fu. She had a Black Belt.

Headline Today (March 19, 2018 - near three months later)- Body of missing Australian woman found in Whistler, B.C. park http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/allison-raspa-missing-whistler-australia-1.4583513

17. "On Friday evening, police say they received a report of human remains at one end of partially frozen Alpha Lake which turned out to be Raspa's."
18. "Police say a cause of death has not been confirmed, but the death does not appear to be suspicious."

I don't know what to say with missing data, and from the polices statement (18) which they are basically saying there is nothing to see hear, she went in the lake or something and she has been found. This may sync with other evidence from people who know more about her state of mind following the bar, and they are not saying how she got 7 km away or why she would in the middle of winter. They are not saying how, given the such a search day after day she was not located. The Lake, Alpha Lake is not deep (max 12 m) and not big
(2.9 km. perimeter) http://www.sharphooks.com/tripplanner.aspx?subpage=lakeinfo&lake=alpha+lake&lakeid=6 Much of the lake is shallow with only a couple of 3 spots shown at 9m.

I can't really say anything else.

May Alison rest in peace.

This one is not that far away from where Alison was, being also in the province of BC and also at a ski resort. This is of Ryan Shtuka of Alberta who was working at Sun Peaks and "mysteriously disappeared."

http://cfjctoday.com/article/610130/mother-makes-emotional-plea-information-missing-son

The 20 year old, who moved to the mountain ski resort just a few months ago to work the winter season, went missing early Saturday morning after leaving a house party just minutes from where he lived. - February 17 was the last time anyone saw Ryan Shtuka.

His mom said: "He's not one of those kids, he's not a kid he's a man, he's not one of those ones that would just go off and certainly not tell us where he was, he was here for a purpose and he was happy doing what he was doing here."

Tuesday morning, the RCMP's canine unit conducted a major ground search as well, and the police helicopter has been active canvassing the area from the skies. But with plummeting temperatures and heavy snow...

Ryan hasn't used his cellphone or been active on social media since he disappeared. The Shtuka family is appealing to anyone who may have information on Ryan's whereabouts, to come forward.

The canines are pretty good knowing how the avalanche dogs work (they can sense in deep snow), and the search area would have been small (5 minute walk) and yet at the time it was super cold and snowy.

To date Ryan has not been found.

May Ryan be found somewhere safe for the family!
 
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Paulides talks about the disappearance of triathlete Victor Teni on a 2016 lecture in Toronto.
Later on his mummified body has been found around the spot where he was training on 21 October 2017, in Tenerife Island, Spain.

Apparently it started snowing the very night following his disappearance, then the dry weather did the rest to mummy it up. Body was found 'behind a boulder' and that was why they cannot find him, the theory was that he fell down for many yards. Certainly the location was not a good one for running... there are many articles around and some talks about his cellphone too, but the details ain't illuminating enough to figure out what really happened.

I was catching up with this thread I abandoned quite abruptly back then... then watched Paulides 2013 lecture at Mufon LA, and the Skinwalker stuff craziness he recommended to read about, and Whoa! Quite impressed about all these bleedthroughs :shock:
 
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This one flew under the radar.

Missing ski instructor Carson May found dead at Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in California | Daily Mail Online
Updated: 17:52 BST, 1 March 2016
Carson May, 23, disappeared from Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in California
Rescue teams found his body near the back of a mountain on Monday
The area is believed to have had six avalanches in the last six weeks
May is the son of Paralympic bronze winner and record-winning blind skier Mike May

The body of a missing ski instructor was found buried under five feet of snow, six weeks after he went missing from a California resort.

Rescue teams found the body of 23-year-old Carson May near the place where his cell phone last sent a signal from on January 15 - near the back of a mountain at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, according to SFGate.

When May first went missing, telephone crews were able to trace the signal but rescue workers were unable to find him after searching for four days.

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Rescue teams found the body of 23-year-old Carson May (pictured) near the place where his cell phone last pinged on January 15 near the backside of a mountain at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort

Crews from the Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue team and the El Dorado County Search and Rescue dog teams found May's body on Monday while training near their original search area.

The Placer County Sheriff's office posted on Facebook: 'Our condolences to the May family and our thanks go to all of the dozens of searchers who continued to search for Carson.'

May, who was the son of bronze winning Paralympian and record breaking blind skier Mike May, was reported missing by friends on January 15 after he failed to return home.

Colleagues became even more concerned when they found his belongings still in his work lockers.


He was last seen skiing while off duty at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort with his younger brother Wyndham before the two became separated.

A rescue team of almost 60 people searched for May over four days, but their search was halted by the weather.

The area May was last seen had been hit by as many as six avalanches during the last six weeks.

Rescuers had two helicopters, two snowcats and six snowmobiles at their disposal to track down May and they searched both inside Sugar Bowl's boundaries and out of bounds.

May was an instructor with the resort's Mountain Sports Learning Center ski school, near Norden, providing lessons to customers of varying ski levels.

He was the son of celebrated blind skier Mike, who has previously set the world's speed record for downhill skiing by a blind individual.
Mike May competed in the alpine skiing event at the 1984 Winter Paralympics and won three bronze medals in the downhill, giant slalom and combination events.

In 1999 he founded Sendero Group in Davis, California, which produced the first accessible GPS solution for blind persons.

After pioneering stem-cell surgery
and a transplant in 2000, Mike's eyesight was partially restored.

Today Mike, who has another son, Wyndham, with his ex-wife Jennifer, has published a book about his life - Crashing Through - and continues to give inspirational talks.

Skiing appears to be a family passion for the Mays and both Carson and Wyndham started on the slopes as young as two.

'Our boys are now excellent skiers, better skiers than we are,' Mike May said in a 2004 interview by the American Foundation for the Blind.

Jan 16, 2016
 
In case you missed this these ....:ohboy:

Missing Marysville Nurse Found after Frantic Foothills Search
Posted 5:05 PM, March 16, 2018 Video / 01:31
Donovan’s family tells FOX40 that she has been found safe.
NEVADA COUNTY — After more than a week of frantic searching, Sheryl Donovan’s family has some relief.
The family of a missing Marysville woman are continuing a frantic search in the Sierra Foothills and beyond.

Sheryl Donovan is a home care nurse who was working at a client’s home on Tuesday in North San Juan when she went missing.

"We’re sort of at a loss for what's happened to her," said Donovan's brother, Paul Adkins.

It was Donovan’s first day with her new client. No one has seen her since she left that client's house around 6 p.m.

"She had responsibilities, a time schedule to keep to pick up her daughter and grandkids. So that’s out of the ordinary for her not to make that," Adkins said.

Family members say the weather was bad when she left and Friday was much the same.

Search and rescue teams spent the last three days looking along winding Highway 49, the route she would have taken back to Marysville. The search has centered around her gold colored 2000 Ford Explorer.

"Looking for any signs on the side of the road, debris moved, pine needles moved, any tire tracks going off the road. We did not see any," said Roger Adkins, another one of Donovan's brothers.

Family members said she was used to working with other clients in the foothills and actually drove the new route to and from her client’s house before she started working with the new client.

"We tried calling her. We have no information on her whereabouts," Paul Adkins said.

Some family members said after three days missing from her daughter and grandchildren, they are beginning to believe some foul play is involved, although the Nevada County Sheriff's Office has not indicated that that would be the case.

If you have seen her or her car, the sheriff’s office wants to know about it.



Oregon police: Missing trucker walked 14 miles to get home
Updated 9:29 am, Monday, April 30, 2018
Comments:
Oregon police: Missing trucker walked 14 miles to get home

Wow DHLS was part of this investigation and search. Imagine that?

Published on Apr 6, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQp-Uu_pa4
A body has been found where a vehicle went off the road and plummeted about 100 feet down an embankment in the Oakland Hills. Da Lin reports. (4-6-18 )
"http://abc7news.com/video/embed/?pid=3310797"

Published on Apr 13, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLl9bik7rVs
A driver was pulled to safety after his van plunged 150 feet off the notorious Devil's Slide cliff on the Peninsula coast. Jackie Ward reports. (4/13/18)

Published on Apr 6, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQp-Uu_pa4
A body has been found where a vehicle went off the road and plummeted about 100 feet down an embankment in the Oakland Hills. Da Lin reports. (4-6-18)

Published on Mar 29, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnU8ZLDdmeo
Raw video of victim rescue after vehicle plunges off Pacifica cliff

Published on Mar 26, 2018
A vehicle associated with a bizarre murder-drowning two weeks ago was pulled from the murky waters of Lake Merritt on Monday. (3/26/18) 75Ft from the shoreline

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Friday, April 06, 2018 06:41PM
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) --
by Leslie Brinkley
Police confirm that the body of a woman was found near her car in a ravine off of Grizzly Peak in the Oakland Hills on Friday. They're still unsure when the car went off the road.

They say the vehicle was found in the 4900 block of Grizzly Peak Boulevard, near Marlborough Terrace. This may be related to a missing person's case.

Judy Spiegel says her son's girlfriend was reported missing this week. She drove a white Prius, she says, the same car that went off the side of Grizzly Peak and down 100 feet in steep terrain.

She says her son last saw his girlfriend Sunday night and left for Hawaii the following morning.

By mid-week, he was calling his mother to have her check and see if she had seen his girlfriend.

Police were investigating the woman's disappearance near Marlborough Terrace Friday at 8:50 a.m.

Police say they happened to check the area for the missing person and found the vehicle off the embankment. Fog, rain and wind hampered their rescue efforts. But they eventually confirmed there was no one inside the vehicle.

Friday afternoon, as the vehicle was towed up the muddy hillside, cadaver dogs with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department found a woman's body near the Prius.

E7, T5, B2, R1, R2, E29, PMP, and OPD on scene at #GrizzlyPeak for a vehicle down an embankment. No occupants found. OFD resources, including one of our highly trained search canine teams is conducting a wide area search of the area to ensure no victims were ejected. #oakland


2nd car in a month abandoned off Oakland's Grizzly Peak Blvd.
2nd car in a month abandoned off Oakland's Grizzly Peak Blvd.
2nd car in a month abandoned off Oakland's Grizzly Peak Blvd.
OAKLAND/Cristina Rendon) - Oakland police are searching for the driver of a car that was found abandoned off Grizzly Peak Blvd. near Fish Ranch Road on Wednesday morning.

Officer Marco Marquez with OPD said the car was reported stolen out of Richmond. No one was found inside or near the car. It was reported to police around 11:00 a.m.

It is the second time a car has been found abandoned in the past month. On Dec. 7, a car was spotted on the hillside in the exact same area after it hit a guardrail and went off Grizzly Peak Blvd. at the same curve.

Tow Manager Donnie Robinson with Auto Plus Towing and Auto Body said he was not surprised to get the call about the car on
Wednesday.


“Anytime we get a call up here, Fish Ranch Road and Grizzly Peak, we already know what we’re going to do,” Robinson said. “They need a guardrail all the way down.”

Police said it is unclear if the driver accidentally lost control or if the car was intentionally pushed over the hill.

“In this area it’s not necessarily uncommon to find abandoned vehicles and how they end up in the potions that they are in, on the embankment, off the roadway, we’re going to take a look at that in the investigation,” Marquez said.

Anyone with information on the stolen car is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department.

Missing Fernley Woman Located Deceased in Crashed Pick Up Truck
Missing Fernley Woman Located Deceased in Crashed Pick Up Truck
Posted: Dec 15, 2017 1:58 AM RST
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Lyon County Deputies and the Storey County Sheriff's Office responded to a crash on Six Mile Canyon Road in which a deceased woman, 57-year-old Nancy Vandenput, was found in a pick up truck.
Vandenput was reported missing to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office on November, 2017, and was last seen in the Jason Court area of Fernley around 8:30 pm that night.
The vehicle was located in a ravine off the north side of the road.
An investigation into the cause of the crash is underway.

Robert Perea, The Fernley Reporter
Storey County Sheriff still awaiting autopsy results on Fernley woman found dead in Six Mile Canyon crash -

January 30, 2018
The Storey County Sheriff’s Office is still waiting for autopsy results to determine the cause of the death of a Fernley woman who was found dead in a vehicle that had crashed down a ravine in Six Mile Canyon.

Nancy Vandenput, 57, who was reported missing to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 22, was found Dec. 14 inside a pickup truck that had crashed off the road and into a ravine off the north side of Six Mile Canyon Road, near the border with Lyon County.

Storey County Sheriff Gerald Antinoro said the case is puzzling, because it doesn’t appear that Vandenput died of injuries suffered from the crash.

Missing Nevada woman reportedly spotted in Chanute
Posted: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 7:27 pm Chanute, Kansas
An endangered adult, missing from Fernley, Nevada, was reportedly spotted in Chanute.
Nancy Vandenput has been missing since Wednesday around 8:30 pm. She is 57 years old, 5’4”, and weighs about 101 pounds. She has sandy blonde hair and green eyes, and was last seen wearing a flannel jacket.

She was driving a silver 2006 Chevrolet pickup with the Nevada tag VM3783.

An anonymous tip to the Lyon County Nevada Sheriff’s department came in on Saturday that she had been seen at Pete’s Southtown location between 11 am and noon on Friday.

Vandenput has no known connection to Chanute, which is a 24-hour drive from Fernley, but her son Robert Tripp resides in Wichita. According to Tripp, she has been diagnosed with dementia and is in need of her medication.

Tripp said that he has been in contact with the Chanute Police Department. If anyone has seen Vandenput or has knowledge of her whereabouts, contact Lyon County Nevada Sheriff’s department at (775) 463-6620 or CPD at (620) 431-5768.

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23 h 18 min (1,617.7 mi) via I-80 E and I-70 E (None stop)
drivnig time form fernley NV to Chanute, Kansas - Google leit
 
This is of Ryan Shtuka of Alberta who was working at Sun Peaks and "mysteriously disappeared."

Update:
To date, they are still searching. And remember he was only minutes from home that night. Ryan's parents have essentially moved up to the resort and work every day to search for him. This is what has been said from 5 days ago: Search for Ryan Shtuka continues this weekend

In the 10 weeks since Ryan disappeared, the Shtukas have had about 570 people volunteer to help them search — many of whom they did not know.
[...]
Recently, the parents have refocused on a new area, following up on a possible sighting of their son heading in the opposite direction of his home and toward an establishment in the village that may have still been open.

“The description matches, the person was sober because they just finished work, so it’s a possibility; however, as much as that is positive, on the other hand … all it does is expand the area in which he could have gone,” Heather said.
[...]
As for the possibility Ryan may have been met with foul play that night, Heather said “there’s no evidence that he left that hill whether willingly or unwillingly or unknowingly.”
 
Authorities searching for missing Nimitz sailor in Washington state national forest
15 hours ago
Officials continued to search Friday for an aircraft carrier Nimitz sailor who has been missing since May 4, when he went hiking in a Washington state national forest and never returned.

Electrician’s Mate Nuclear Power 2nd Class Jeremiah Adams went out alone for a day hike in the Olympic National Forest, according to police.

His friends got worried when he didn’t show up for a hike last Saturday, and they called the sheriff’s office on Monday when he didn’t show up for work, according to Clallam County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian King.

Adams’ car has been found at one of the trail heads, and search operations are ongoing for the 24-year-old, he said.

“We’ve come up with really zero, no tangible evidence that’s assisting us in further identifying a potential location where he may have gone,” King said. “We have his vehicle, we have a trail-head, it’s our assumption that is where he went.”

The trail is popular, so finding distinct footprints or other clues has proven difficult, he said.

The search has involved scent dogs using clothing in Adams’ car, as well as cadaver dogs, King said.

Olympic National Forest and the adjacent park “is rugged country,” he said.

“Don’t hike alone,” King warned. “While the majority of hikers are safe every day, there’s a lot that can happen to a person when you’re hiking alone.”

Adams joined the Navy in 2013, shortly after graduating from high school in the Chicago area, his mother, Christine Adams, told the Chicago Tribune.

He took up hiking with all the opportunities in Washington state, and enjoys it because it let him get out in nature, particularly after months at sea, she said.
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Electrician's Mate, Nuclear Power 2nd Class Jeremiah Adams of the aircraft carrier Nimitz went missing on May 4, when he went hiking alone in the Olympic National Forest. (Navy)

Sailor originally from Plainfield disappears during hike
Video 02:04
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Update:
To date, they are still searching. And remember he was only minutes from home that night. Ryan's parents have essentially moved up to the resort and work every day to search for him. This is what has been said from 5 days ago: Search for Ryan Shtuka continues this weekend

Updating again.

Was thinking that with the recent snow melt at this location that further signs might have come to light. No, nothing yet. The family has a website for their son: MISSING: Ryan Shtuka $15,000 reward for info leading to location of Ryan

And here is a video that is up on that site with Ryan's brave mom speaking:

 
A new interview with Paulides on Coast to Coast:

David Paulides has been researching mysterious disappearances in U.S. national parks for over a decade with cases having eerie similarities. In the first half, he joined George Knapp for an update on his recent investigations, including a number of instances where skiers have inexplicably gone missing, both current and in the past. 21-year-old Grant Cox, just released from the military in 1947, went skiing at Sugar Bowl Ski Lodge in California and vanished without a trace. A second search was done after the snow melted, and there was no sign of his ski poles or any of his equipment. Disappearing in 1988 in Rocky Mountain National Park, 27-year-old German tourist Rudi Moder also went missing while skiing. A soldier, he'd received advanced mountaineering and high altitude training while in the German military. A search found his "food cave" and pack but no fresh tracks. The next summer, Paulides recounted, another search was conducted, but the team found no trace, though oddly they heard "1942 German sonar-type sounds near Lulu mountain."

The strange disappearances strike an inordinate number of those with German heritage, he cited, including a group of physicists who were visiting the US. Recent cases of skiers disappearing, include Toronto fire captain Danny Filippidis, who vanished earlier this year while skiing at Whiteface Mountain in New York. He resurfaced in Sacramento, with no memory of his whereabouts from February 7th to the 13th. German businessman, Karl Haub, disappeared last month while skiing on the Matterhorn. A billionaire, "you know they threw every resource in the book trying to find him, and they didn't," Paulides reported.
 
A new interview with Paulides on Coast to Coast:
Thought I would include CC's teaser You Tube with your post. His link requires an account and payment.

COAST TO COAST AM OFFICIAL / 39:58

Though I do understand and appreciate compensation is of a form of gratitude of knowledge received.
pay1 is the simple, direct word meaning to give money, etc. due for services rendered, goods received.

Thanks Altair for sharing!
 
A new interview with Paulides on Coast to Coast:

Very interesting talk. Thanks for posting.

...but the team found no trace, though oddly they heard "1942 German sonar-type sounds near Lulu mountain.

Indeed, high strangeness in that case.

This reminded me to go back to the Ryan case - no family updates since the 13th except for a May 17th news report. KSAR returns to Sun Peaks to search for Ryan Shtuka

A couple of quotes:

“There’s kind of a rare window here where the snow’s gone and before the plants all green up, which makes it a lot easier to walk through the woods and you can see everything very easily,” said KSAR search manager Alan Hobler.

True, however, the dogs would overcome "green up" to a larger degree.

“There’s a lot of snow that fell. I think it was 22 centimetres of snow fell, from the time Shtuka went missing to the time it was reported to us, so any clues was quite likely buried in the snow,” Hobler said.

That was interesting to know, yet 22cm is really not a lot of snow - every 15 cm is 6 inches, so not a lot since he went missing (he might be incorrect in the cm value).

Last week’s search turned up multiple articles of clothing, but Hobler said none of them are believed to belong to Shtuka.

“There’s hats, there’s socks, there’s shoes in places you’d never expect to find those things,” he said. “There’s lots of stuff like that turning up. It kind of gets your heart racing.”

Shtuka was last seen wearing dark jeans, a grey/white shirt, a blue coat and a burgundy ball cap, but Hobler said nothing matching those items was found.

Nothing apparently there.

The KSAR search focused on the south-facing slopes above Sun Peaks Road and included search dogs, Hobler said. There are still north-facing slopes KSAR still wants to search.

This starts to get much further out.

KSAR plans to search along Burfield Road again, which is defined as a high probability area to find Shtuka, but the potential search area is quite vast.

Hobler said they determined its search area based on previous cases, the majority of which involve a five-kilometre radius of where the person was last seen, which in this case would go to the top of ski hills.

We’ll never be able to search all that,” he said.

RCMP Cpl. Jodi Shelkie has told KTW police have no evidence to suggest Shtuka met with foul play when he went missing.

“To me, it seems obvious he didn’t walk home and get lost or fall asleep in a snow bank,” Hobler said. “It kind of feels like something else happened, who knows what that was — and maybe he did walk up one of the ski runs. Maybe [he was] despondent — that’s a possibility — maybe he went to another friend’s place, maybe he went for a walk somewhere else. There was a theory he went off for pizza in the village.”

Shtuka is white, stands six feet tall, weighs 82 kilograms (180 pounds) and has blond hair and brown eyes.

Here is a satellite image of the terrain (many surrounding forest cutblocks): Google kort
 
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Perhaps this will be the last update (June 7th) on Ryan Shtuka or not. Essentially, there has been nothing, not a clue to follow. His parents have finally gone home since being there in February.

We read a lot about these people who disappear and then move on, and yet the families and friends of the missing can be just as lost as the one they are searching for. They will live with it for life.

Anyway, a couple of comments from the latest article leaves things where they are:

“We’ll come back until the snow falls and then once the snow melts, we’ll come back again each month until we find him or we’ve been given a new direction as to where we can find him,” Heather said.

She said the family is encouraging those who have volunteered to search for Ryan to continue doing so in their absence.
[...]
“There’s no leads and that has always been the frustrating part — that there’s no evidence to suggest he left Sun Peaks at all. There’s no tips, no gossip, nothing that would lead us into a different direction,” Heather said.
[...]
From what she has heard, and from information via private investigators, Heather said Ryan was leaving a party with a couple of his roommates and ready to walk the short distance to his home when he disappeared.

“They walked out the door with another friend to walk home and thought Ryan was right behind them,” Heather said, adding the friends thought perhaps he had stopped to tie his shoes.

She said by the time they turned around and noticed Ryan wasn’t behind them, they assumed he was lagging behind or decided to stay at the party.
[...]
Heather said the last known confirmed sighting of her son was of him walking toward the door inside the Burfield Drive home.

He virtually vanished into thin air,” she said.
 
Not sure how to set the video, so here is a link with the post (Heather is Ryan's mom). The video is a tribute, full of the 1,000 Search and Rescue people and a few of the doggies that helped to try and find Ryan. Not much to say otherwise yet sharing it here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2052336918380120/

Heather Warren Shtuka
June 24 at 5:32 PM
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There is another post within the above that is all about cell phones and rescue - something to add, yet not unknown to many readers here - it starts off like this:

Ryan's cell phone has been a subject of much interest so I thought I'd share this article from a SAR group in Chilliwack that addresses the topic of cell phones and rescue efforts.
 
Search for missing Navy sailor last seen in Waikiki
Updated: Jul 03, 2018 01:06 AM HST Video / 02:28
HONOLULU (KHON2) - U.S. Navy Seaman Shaun Palmer failed to report for duty at Marine Corps Base Hawaii on July 1, and was classified as unauthorized absence on July 2, after 24 hours.

Palmer is a hospital corpsman assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

A missing persons report has been filed with the Honolulu Police Department and his command is working closely with local and military officials to find the missing sailor.

Palmer was not scheduled to participate in the ongoing Exercise Rim of the Pacific, a large maritime exercise taking place on and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.

Palmer's mother Elizabeth Diane Unterein, who lives in California, said she received a call from the military of her son's disappearance on Monday morning. She ran multiple scenarios in her head. "Maybe he just went out and had too much to drink and he'll show up... and he hasn't shown up."

On Saturday night, Palmer was last seen outside the Kelly O'Neil's bar on Lewers Street in Waikiki.

Palmer never showed up for duty on Sunday or Monday.

"He loves his job, he loves being a corpsman. His commander called me this morning and right away said this is not normal behavior for our son," said Unterein.

Searching for clues, Unterein called various hospitals on Oahu to no avail. Palmer's phone has been off since Saturday. His credit and debit card do not reveal recent transactions.

Unterein says military officials said her son was with a fellow Military member the night he went missing. Palmer's friend was arrested for disorderly conduct around 2 a.m. after police allegedly tried to detain the man for engaging in a physical fight with an unknown person on Lewers Street.

Palmer's credit card statement shows the last charge was for a Lyft ride around 4:30 Sunday morning.

"It got canceled. I think because he wasn't there to catch the ride. There's no real paper trail after that of where my son's whereabouts are. There's no hotel purchases, no food purchases. His phone has been shut off, like it died. It's not for him to just disappear and vanish," said Unterein.

Unterein has been working with investigators from California and is contemplating flying to Hawaii to assist in the search.

"I'm trying to hang in there. I'm trying to stay positive. Just please keep your eyes open for my son," she pleaded.

Palmer was last seen in Waikiki early Sunday morning on July 1. If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact HPD at (808) 529-3111.

Flashback: January 23, 2013
Coast Guardsman reappears after 3 months
Video / 02:28
HONOLULU (AP) — A Coast Guardsman has reappeared after vanishing and being declared a missing person more than three months ago, Honolulu police and the Coast Guard said Tuesday.

Petty Officer First Class Russell Matthews returned home Sunday night, police said. Police say he was incoherent and taken to a hospital for observation.

Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Gene Maestas said the service doesn't know where Matthews, a Hawaii-based rescue swimmer, has been and what he's been doing since his wife reported him missing on Oct. 9.

Coast Guard investigators dispatched to see him confirmed his identity after he called his command from Castle Medical Center in the Honolulu suburb of Kailua, Maestas said. He's now being evaluated at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.

Coast Guard investigators looking into his disappearance won't question him until he's released by doctors, Maestas said. But the service will probe the incident.

"We'll try to find out why he disappeared and all the details surrounding his case," he said.

Police found the 36-year-old guardsman's car abandoned at Kaena Point, a remote area of Oahu, when Matthews was reported missing in October.

Crews from the Coast Guard, Navy, state, county lifeguards and Honolulu fire and police departments together searched more than 10,000 nautical square miles — on land and at sea — for Matthews. The search was called off on Dec. 13.

Honolulu Police Sgt. Kim Buffett of Crimestoppers said Matthews isn't giving the police a statement because he's in the hospital. Detectives have no reason to pursue the case as it's not against the law to be missing, she said.

The police case is closed now that Matthews has been found, she said.

It's unusual for a Guardsman to go missing for months and then reappear, Maestas said.

"This is not the norm for the Coast Guard. In my 28 year career in the Coast Guard, I have never come across a case like this," he said.

Matthews, an aviation survival technician, has been in the Coast Guard for 15 years. He's been assigned to Hawaii since 2007.

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https://www.facebook.com/missingpersonshawaii/
 
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Indonesia: Missing Woman Was Swept Out To Sea 18 Months Ago
Found Unconscious By Relatives On The Same Beach


Her family took her home and called medics, who confirmed that she had no major injuries.

She has since regained consciousness and has been able to eat and drink, but is so far unable to talk - meaning nobody has been able to question her about what happened and where she has been.

Police have opened an investigation into the incident, but are urging people to 'think logically' about the disappearance and not jump to conclusions.

(Happily none of her feet are missing...)

Read more at the DAILY MAIL
 
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