Posted on 04/19/2006 7:45:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A Kennewick woman was pulled alive from a northern California landfill after she reportedly was carjacked and kidnapped while driving to work.
Rebecca Huston, 32, was last heard from last Wednesday evening. Friends and family began searching for her after she failed to show up for work at a veterinary clinic in Richland.
A landfill employee at the Ukiah Transfer Station in Ukiah, Calif., about 100 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101, saw Huston's feet sticking out from a garbage pile Tuesday morning.
Huston spent Tuesday night at a hospital where she was treated for a cut head, minor hypothermia and an undisclosed medical condition, the Tri-City Herald reported Wednesday.
Huston told sheriff's deputies in Mendocino County, Calif., that she was driving to work Thursday morning when a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun climbed into her car, demanding that she drive south. The next four nights, she told deputies, they drove through Washington, Oregon and California. They stopped occasionally at rest stops and service stations.
She told police the man forced her into a trash bin Monday night and told her not to get out. The container was emptied into a county garbage truck and the trash was transported to the landfill.
Deputies later found Huston's car in the parking lot of a grocery store in Ukiah. Mendocino County sheriff's deputies were expected to search the car for evidence, including fingerprints, Kennewick Detective Sgt. Randy Maynard said.
Maynard said it wasn't clear if Huston was knocked unconscious or had fallen asleep when she went into the trash bin. There was no indication she had been assaulted.
"I'm pretty overwhelmed emotionally," Tere Page, Huston's friend and former co-worker, said of her discovery. "This is the best news I've had in years."
Are you Lucy from the Olduvai Gorge?
Pauli Shore movie
There to clean the place up no doubt ...
I'm sure by now that you know about the Kennewick Man than you care to know. However, please note that he was not a
Native American and that he was shot in the hip with an arrow or spear. The mystery has yet to be unraveled!
Calling Greta!!
I think I was thinkin' the same thing. There's more to this story, I bet. Remember the runaway bride?
-ccm
No headline writer worth their salt would miss an opportunity like "Kennewick Woman." It reminds me of a head in one of the science publications when new data caused paleontologists to revise the age of the Ethiopian hominid fossil nicknamed Lucy. It read: "The Problem With Dating an Older Woman."
May I be the first to call Bull$&!+ on this.
Jean Luc Kennewick?
This sounds very suspicious.
I wonder if she has some problems?
Yeah, something smells and it ain't just the landfill
Exciting indeed...both of my parents used to live in Redwood Valley California, just a few miles north of Ukiah...my old auntie still lives in Ukiah, California...shes all excited about the news...the last time she had any exciting news about her area, was when good old Jim Jones moved to town with his flock...
I think I have actually been to that landfill area transfer station...when I was moving my mother out of her home, to bring her to live with me, in Washington State, I was cleaning out their home, and discarded lots of the things she would no longer use...we had to go to the transfer station to rent one of those big metal garbage bins, to fill up and have them pick up with one of their trucks...
Golly, I am all a twitter..
Carjacking has been a problem for a LONG, LONG time apparently.
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