Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:59     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:The car was left near White Oak Canyon, right?


Yes

"Police searched by ground and air Saturday and Sunday. Geller says the search is concentrated around White Oak Canyon Trail, where Mittendorff's car was found. She says there is no evidence to indicate foul play."
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:36     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:The car was left near White Oak Canyon, right?


If it was, that means that there's a parking lot at the bottom of the mountain. You could park the car on Skyline Drive and then hike down to the other parking lot and drive off with another car.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:21     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who drives two hours away from home to go run in a National Park during a weekday alone? I think her car is a diversion. She also called in sick last week and that was the last time anyone saw her. Weird.


Who does their long run on a weekday? People who work weekends. She is a firefighter--they don't just work mon-fri from 9-5.


Correct. FFs work 24 hours on, then 48 off, or similar structures. Many of them have so many weekdays off that they can have another part-time job or run a business.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:20     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Who drives two hours away from home to go run in a National Park during a weekday alone? I think her car is a diversion. She also called in sick last week and that was the last time anyone saw her. Weird.


Who does their long run on a weekday? People who work weekends. She is a firefighter--they don't just work mon-fri from 9-5.


Maybe she called in sick to have a personal day and to train/run/hike, I've certainly done that before
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:16     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
The car was left near White Oak Canyon, right?
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:07     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:Who drives two hours away from home to go run in a National Park during a weekday alone? I think her car is a diversion. She also called in sick last week and that was the last time anyone saw her. Weird.


Who does their long run on a weekday? People who work weekends. She is a firefighter--they don't just work mon-fri from 9-5.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 20:05     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
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Anonymous wrote:The car in question was seen driving into the park by an elderly woman the same day it was found. She remembered the car because of its uniqueness. Meaning the car was parked there the same day it was found. I still think foul play.


This is so so obvious. The police know it too.


That doesn't make any sense - why would an elderly woman be driving the missing girl's car, and (assuming that's even true) why would she leave it there? [/quote

The elderly woman SAW the car, the elderly woman was not driving the car.


I can't remember - is this a dangling participle? There is a basic grammar term for this type of error.


It's a garden path sentence. It's not grammatically wrong - what causes misinterpretation is that there's intervening material between the subject of the passive verb (the car was seen) and the agent (by an elderly woman).
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 19:31     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is already mentioned, but I just saw on the news that she called in sick to work the day she went missing.


No, she called out sick the day before, but she didn't call out the day she disappeared


Right, she called in Thursday but was a no call/no show Friday which was obviously worrisome since she had called out the day before.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 19:29     Subject: Re:Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It's so odd that this FIREFIGHTER goes missing presumably in Shenandoah National Park, and the same day her car is found in that park, a wildfire starts. And, according to a Washington Post article, officials believe this fire was "likely human-caused". This cannot be coincidence, can it?[/quote

I keep thinking the same thing


Exactly. Not a coincidence.


For the amateur sleuths... Do you know where her car was found? Scroll down to see which trails are closed because of fire.

http://dcist.com/2016/04/rocky_mount_fire.php


OMG some trails are where I suspected. The only drive able roads ive ever seen in the park are at Big Meadow going along it and behind it. But I haven't been thru the park much south of big Meadow. Gosh I have old pics of the roads on a hard drive somewhere. . .
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 19:26     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is already mentioned, but I just saw on the news that she called in sick to work the day she went missing.


No, she called out sick the day before, but she didn't call out the day she disappeared
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 19:25     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:Apologies if this is already mentioned, but I just saw on the news that she called in sick to work the day she went missing.


So then how does anyone even know she is missing? The initial story was nobody heard since Wednesday and then she didn't show up for work Friday. If she called in sick, what the heck kicked off all this?
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 19:22     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:And it's troubling that anyone cold enter last week without payment. You could just walk or drive in.


Why is that troubling? I don't think NPS normally charges people so they can have records of attendance in case of a murder investigation. It's the Centennial of NPS so parks are free to celebrate. Nothing troubling about it.

The car is not there for any good reason but that is not the fault of NPS.


I wasn't insinuating that at all, I meant troubling meaning possible foul play. But given this situation and other killings on the AT, maybe that policy will change in the future. It did at my campus after two people were murdered by a visitor who didn't have to show I.D. (Miami 20 years ago).
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 18:34     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Apologies if this is already mentioned, but I just saw on the news that she called in sick to work the day she went missing.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 18:02     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Police have cracked her cell phone!!!!

WTOP just reported it.

Police are NOT saying how they hacked in, or who might have helped them (the Israelis again maybe?).

Only that they have all her smartphone data now.


There is nothing new on wtop.com.


The cell provider turned it over


I read somewhere that her sister had made an urgent plea for help from a lawyer regarding cell phone laws. Maybe someone stepped up and helped them make their case to get the phone company to release the data.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2016 17:52     Subject: Missing woman search in Shenandoah
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Police have cracked her cell phone!!!!

WTOP just reported it.

Police are NOT saying how they hacked in, or who might have helped them (the Israelis again maybe?).

Only that they have all her smartphone data now.


There is nothing new on wtop.com.


The cell provider turned it over