Dorn's brother-in-law, Stan Cornine -- who traveled to Silver City from South Carolina during last month's search -- told the Las Cruces Sun-News at the time that Dorn was an experienced camper who was at home in the outdoors.
Cornine, who described Dorn as "very much a free spirit," said he and his wife sometimes would go for more than a year without hearing from her. But he said she had called before she headed to Silver City to let her family know.
Carolyn Dorn was rescued after she went missing in Gila National Forest, New Mexico, nearly five weeks ago.
| Written by Bruce Daniels - ABQnewsSeeker | |
| Friday, 29 December 2006 | |
| Official search called off, but family keeps vigil for 52-year-old. Carolyn Dorn, 52, a familiar face to people around Silver City and Grant County, went missing some time around Dec. 6, and her locked Mazda was found on Dec. 11 parked in a ravine off Turkey Creek Road in the Cliff/Gila area, but a subsequent search turned up nothing, the Silver City Sun-News reported today on its Web site. Her ATM card was used in Las Cruces on Dec. 6 and her cell phone was used to check voice mail messages on the same day in Las Cruces, but apparently no one has seen her since, her brother-in-law Stan Cornine, who arrived in Silver City on Wednesday from his home in South Carolina, told the Sun-News. Cornine described his wife's sister as a "free spirit," who wasn't often in touch with her family, but said he last heard from Dorn in early December, at which time she said she was heading west, possibly to Silver City, the Sun-News said. Before that, Cornine said, his sister-in-law had called during the summer to say she was living in Florida, the paper reported. "She could very well be camping or her car could have become stuck and she went for help," Cornine told the Sun-News. "She may be snug in an apartment somewhere," he said, adding however that she had told her family of suicide attempts in the past. |