Missing woman found dead at base of Upper Yosemite 'The woman was missing since Tuesday night and we located her with the aid of Rescue 117 on Wednesday afternoon. Juli Sunds body Hopefully all will go well, another user commented. On March 18, 1999, a charred rental car in a remote wooded area of Long Barn, Califonia is discovered. Woman had been reported missing since 5 April but on 7 April a local fisher spotted a black Jeep almost completely underwater. The National Park Service said "Alice" Yu Xie was hiking to the Upper Yosemite Fall overlook when she went missing last week. Photo: Tiera Strand/Facebook. Juli Sunds body was found thirty miles away a week after the car was found. Missing Cape Town woman found alive | News24 While Jens Sund, Mrs. Sund's husband, went into seclusion about two weeks ago in Eureka, with the couple's three other children, Francis and Carole Carrington, Mrs. Sund's parents, and Raquel and Jose Pelosso, from Cordoba, Argentina, have remained in Modesto to answer questions from the press and keep the case prominent until it is solved, they say. Woman special agent in charge of the case, said that investigators searching for suspects were still following up on hundreds of tips that have been made to an F.B.I. Tiera Strand: Family Demands Answers After Missing Copyright 2023 KOLO. Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. Later that day, in a surprising confession to FBI agent Jeff Rinek, Stayner admitted to killing the Sunds, Pelosso and Armstrong. Certain areas produce more missing people than others. WebAngelica Gaitan went missing for two years before she was found alive floating in the sea by two baffled fishermen. Carole Sund, who was 42, had taken her eldest daughter Julie, 15, and Silvina, 16, who was visiting the family in Eureka, to Yosemite for a holiday on Presidents' Day Weekend. Then, on July 22, 1999, the decapitated body of Joie Armstrong, a twenty-six-year-old Yosemite naturalist was found near her cabin in Yosemites Foresta region. Articles with the HISTORY.com Editors byline have been written or edited by the HISTORY.com editors, including Amanda Onion, Missy Sullivan and Matt Mullen. Local authorities arrived to the scene with a recovery crew and managed to pull the Jeep out. Police can confirm that the missing woman has been found on Wednesday. He was convicted of the other three counts of murder in 2002 and sentenced to death. Now he's retiring, Why the Pacific Ocean turned pink off an area of the Calif. coast, A trip down the most mysterious road in California, A woman was found dead in Yosemite. Anyone with information is asked to call the Lyon County Sheriffs Office at 775-463-6620. Crews have been searching for the missing 30-year-old in a vast desert area around the town of Stagecoach using drones, dogs, helicopters, and Search and Rescue teams. But no ransom note was ever found, and the authorities concluded that the women were victims of random foul play. Sign up here. What happened to Xie next isnt clear, and the Park Service has not revealed where her backpack was found. Missing Her next of kin have been notified, the park service said. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. His campsite was found undisturbed at White Wolf Campground, but no sign of Jackson was found. Discover our four plan options A local fisher rescues a woman in Marion county, Texas. You can navigate days by using left and right arrows. Steven Stayner died in a tragic motorcycle accident when he was twenty-four. All rights reserved. "Alice" Yu Xie and the green backpack she carried on the day she fell to her death from Yosemite Upper Fall. On 7 April, a local fisher spotted a black Jeep almost completely submerged and called local authorities. He had one of Yosemite's most unusual jobs. "Police can confirm that the missing woman has been found on Wednesday. Investigators found her about 5:30 p.m. in the bottom of a desert ravine about a half mile northeast of where her vehicle was found off Apache Drive in Stagecoach. He refused to comment on whether they were close to making an arrest, on how investigators had located the third body, and on the cause of death for any of the victims. Her condition was not immediately available. The woman had been reported missing since 5 April by the police department of Longview, Texas, according to a statement from the local Marion county The missing-persons post states that Xie, a 41-year-old Chinese national living in the United States is believed to have gone on a day hike to the Upper Yosemite A religious group is strangling access to Calif.'s most beautiful waterfalls. Florida's Fourth Estate: Barton Beef (12-02-22) TAMPA, Fla. The cause of death of a Florida toddler found dead in an alligators mouth last month has been released. Woman Multiple people have gone missing in national parks across the country over the past week as authorities search for Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old woman who was last heard from while visiting Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. MARION COUNTY, Texas ( KLTV /Gray News) - Texas authorities said a woman was found alive inside a submerged Jeep Friday morning. Theres nothing romantic about it.. Why the Pacific Ocean turned pink off an area of the Calif. coast, A trip down the most mysterious road in California. She's been linked to a cult and a serial killer. She took a Yosemite Area Regional Transportation System (YARTS) bus to get to the park on January 14. During his trial, Stayners lawyers argued he suffered from mental illness, childhood sexual abuse, and the trauma of his brothers kidnapping. In 1972, Stayners seven-year-old brother Steven was kidnapped by a child molestor and held captive for more than seven years before he managed to escape. Spots such as Taft Point, Nevada Fall and Half Dome have all seen deaths over the last few years, often when people were trying to capture the perfect photo without being fully aware of the dangers of their surroundings, the website reported. 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Top editors give you the stories you want delivered right to your inbox each weekday. A world-renowned endurance athlete who went missing in California's Yosemite National Park has been found dead. Petito's family blasted Laundrie on Wednesday, urging him to cooperate with investigators and calling his silence "reprehensible." Petito's stepfather, James Schmidt, and a family friend left for Wyoming's Jackson Hole valley on Tuesday to search for the missing woman. WebThe women, along with Sunds daughter Juli, had been missing since February when they were last seen alive at the Cedar Lodge near Yosemite National Park. Careflight helped with the search Tuesday night, while the Washoe County Sheriffs Offices Raven 2 helicopter is searching the area Wednesday. All were young men. They also wanted to know what Xies mood was like, Horn says. Missing Park officials say she was a 41-year-old who went to Yosemite from Park officials say she was a 41-year-old who went to Yosemite from Mariposa on the YARTS bus. Until last week, the only concrete clue as to what might have happened to the women was Mrs. Sund's wallet, found intact off a highway in Modesto, two hours from El Portal, four days after the trio disappeared. They dont evaluate it and conclude, Id be better off riding a grizzly bear, he says. Bodycam video shows missing woman argued with During their investigation of Xies death, investigators reached out to Horn a second time to ask whether she noticed the woman carrying a cellphone. According to the Yosemite Hikes website, the strenuous hike to the top of the falls is the equivalent of taking the stairs up the Empire State Building, twice. Two men -- one a convicted sex offender and the other on parole after a domestic violence conviction -- who had been working at the Houtz Family Restaurant, where the women were last seen, have been in custody in the Mariposa County jail on unrelated charges, at the request of the F.B.I. Xie is not the first person to lose her life while hiking Upper Yosemite Fall, but according to Michael Ghiglieri, co-author of "Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite," she is the first woman. Missing His comments come amid an ongoing search for. Authorities are searching for a 41-year-old woman who went missing in Yosemite National Park last week. I am pretty sure I was the last person to interact with her, Horn says. "Alice" Yu Xie was reported missing after a hike to the Upper Yosemite Falls overlook. She was reported overdue on Jan. 15 and the National Park Service put out an alert for her on Jan. 16; later that day, searchers found her body at the base of Upper Yosemite Fall. She is safely reunited with friends," said Western Cape police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Pojie. The local woman was found on the north side of Roney Rock - a rocky shoreline in north Wexford. She is safely reunited Guillermo Hechevarria, a criminal investigator with Investigation Services Unlimited in Florida, told Insider he believes Laundrie most likely left Petito alive somewhere in the Tetons. Goodness, 38, went missing after leaving her Gardens home. The location where the body was found is also about halfway between El Portal and Modesto, where relatives of the women have been staying at a Holiday Inn since Carole Sund's wallet was found there. Foul play is not suspected. Cary Stayner, a handyman at the lodge where the women were last seen a month before, later confessed to their murders as well as those of two other women. The hikers contacted the sheriffs office to report found property. Police investigating early morning homicide in Porterville, Child among 5 killed by drunk gunman still on loose: TX police, 1 missing, 2 rescued after getting swept away in Kaweah River. Hiker may have been the last person to see Alice Yu Xie She is safely reunited with friends, he said. She kind of waved at me and I said hi again., The woman was all smiles, Horn says, and she felt a camaraderie with her, a moment of connection. Subscriptions. missing Residents and business people in towns near where the burned car was found say they spotted the three a day or even two after the last confirmed sighting, but investigators say that many of the sightings cannot possibly be true. Across the country, falls accounted for 245 deaths in national parks in the past decade. Underneath, a caption read, Missing Person: Alice Yu Xie.. She was last seen and/or heard from on Monday evening. Riess was found conscious and alert; however, she was suffering from injuries related to exposure and required air transport (to) Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, NV via Care Flight helicopter, the sheriffs office said in a statement. Body of Third Missing Woman Is Found Along a Highway Leading to Yosemite, https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/27/us/body-of-third-missing-woman-is-found-along-a-highway-leading-to-yosemite.html.