Posted on 05/14/2016 2:49:20 PM PDT by moose07
A woman who wasm reported missing this week after she went hiking in North Carolina's Blueridge Mountains was reportedly found alive and tied to a tree.
The unnamed 64-year-old woman was reported missing near the Blueridge Parkway on Thursday after a friend called 911 in the early afternoon.
According to reports, the friend received texts messages from the woman, who said she was having some sort of emergency, according to the Citizen-Times.
After about an hour, the woman was reportedly found tied to a tree near a trail, according to a fire department dispatch radio recording obtained by WLOS.
Crime scene near Craggy Gardens on Parkway. Buncombe EOC says the 911 call was for a missing hiker @WLOS_13 pic.twitter.com/EwZqXgFFwn — Aaron Adelson (@AaronAdelson) May 12, 2016 "She's not deceased at this time," a rescue worker told the dispatcher. "She is tied to a tree. This is the one they were looking for."
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The man is described as an unkempt, white male, about 50 years old, with salt-and-pepper hair and fa scraggly beard, according to an NPS Rangers statement released Friday.
The suspect is believed to be wearing a light or faded grey short sleeve T-shirt, blue pants and dark tennis shoes. He may have smell musty from going unwashed for several days, according to the release.
Anyone with information that might lead to this suspect is asked to call an investigative tip line at 888-653-0009.
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My neighbor has done it - he’s an old guy though. Makes me sooo jealous. As a middle-aged woman who is certain that a bear is going to attack every time I step out of my backdoor - I am a poor candidate for a very long hike through the woods alone. Well, alone except for the random occasional musty dude. Some of those would be there, I am sure. *shudder*
This has happened before ,then (?)
Nah...caused by Trump. Or maybe Bush.
“This was caused by either Global Warming or Racism.”
So Women and minorities where hardest hit, then. :)
It’s probably NOT the same woman, but here’s another story about the one here in New Mexico that would be the same age as the current woman in the Carolina’s, where the ‘missing’ woman here was from. This could only be linked together if the “tied up” woman’s circumstances are suspicious, as in, she tied herself up. Carolyn Dorn, the one ‘rescued’ here in New Mexico wasn’t right in the head.
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/apsurvival02-06-07.htm
“She’s not deceased at this time,”
Um, pretty much sums it up for all of us.
So, if she could text, why could she not untie herself? Something kinky may have been going on.......
we will see, they arent saying much are they
Another Democrat trying voter outreach.
I’m almost 63, and I hike by myself. Oh, and I’m a woman.
Please don’t do that much longer, or carry and have multiples, including mace and taser and extend a baton. Go Sarah Conner.
This is why you don’t allow these people into the girls bathroom.
Bump to that.
It has all of the retarded attributes required to be such an event.....
You don’t know the nature of the tying.
She may have simply been tied bodily to the trunk of a tree with hands free, enough to grab her phone.
She may have had her arms tied back around a small width tree wherein her entire lower arms were free to move.
Who knows.
If she was texting that she was having some sort of emergency, that doesn’t sound as if she was being abducted and tied to a tree.
Maybe she had an adverse reaction to meds or something, and the guy immobilized her for her own safety? Who knows, the lack of detail leaves open all sorts of possibilities.
The EMT crew leaving her tied to a tree sounds odd, too.
Musty old man? Heck, that could be a lot of us!
Thanks for that.
That brought back some interesting memories from NZ.
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