RICHARD COCKLE
The Oregonian
BAKER CITY -- Baker County sheriff's Deputy Travis Ash and Oregon State Police Trooper Chris Hawkins had Thursday off, so they decided to take their ATVs and go looking for a 76-year-old Sandy woman who had been missing for more than two weeks in the rugged Wallowa Mountains.
Thirty miles northeast of Baker City, they left a rough Forest Service road and headed down a steep, brushy canyon because Ash felt they had not searched it well enough before.
That's when they heard a soft, childlike voice and spotted ravens circling overhead.
Fourteen days after she became separated from her husband on a bow hunting expedition and after weeks of searching by dozens of others, Ash and Hawkins found Doris Anderson lying at the bottom of a narrow canyon a mile off the road.
"What alerted us was birds; we heard ravens," Ash said. "We could hear her talking to herself; it sounded real faint, like a child."
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It seems that I've heard of several cases in the last few years of searches of these types being suspended earlier than they should have. Can't help but wonder if we didn't have so many of our capable men based overseas for dubious purposes, that our 'homeland security' wouldn't be short-staffed, resulting in these short-lived searches.
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