WA-Tanya Rider, 33 from Maple Valley

[MrsG728]

I haven't seen this woman reported missing/posted here on WS. She has been found alive! :woohoo:
Thank God!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21020571/

Woman missing 8 days found alive in ravine


MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 26 minutes ago
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A Maple Valley, Wash., woman who went missing Sept. 19 was found alive on Thursday after police used a cell phone signal to locate her, investigators said.
Tanya Rider, 33, was found around 2:30 p.m. PT trapped in her dark blue Honda Element that had crashed 20 feet down a steep ravine near Renton.
A signal from Rider's cell phone led investigators to narrow their search to a three- to five-mile radius and recheck a segment of highway Rider used to drive to work. Police said they originally missed the vehicle because it was hidden by heavy brush.


State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill told The Seattle Times that the area was "rugged and not easily accessible." Rider was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, rescue officials said, adding that she was alert and talking.
"She looks very pale, very dehydrated. She didn't have a lot of cuts but had difficulty breathing," Merrill told the Times. "We have a lot of unanswered questions right now."
Rider was reported missing Sept. 19 after leaving her overnight shift at a Fred Meyer store in Bellevue. The King County Sheriff's Office has been searching for the woman ever since.
Rider’s husband said he was taking a polygraph at the sheriff's office when he got the news she was alive, The Associated Press reported.

[czechmate7]

Hubby said police waited 4 days after he reported her missing to start searching!! Probably why we didn't hear about this sooner!

[Beyond Belief]

Four freakin days! That wait might have killed her. But oh, no, they are focused on her husband.
Missing persons reports need to be acted on with urgency.

[Beyond Belief]

her hospital spokesperson just said she is out of woods concerning "life threatening injuries".

Prayers she comes thru this okay.

[Anuniaq]

Quote:


Tom Rider said he was sitting down to take a lie-detector test at the sheriff's office so officers could exclude him as a suspect in his wife's disappearance when officers told him the car had been found.

"I wanted to make sure they weren't focusing on me, that they were focusing on Tanya," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/28/woman.found.ap/index.html

They should have at least had a clue he didn't do it. This is so different than the "other" husbands. I hope the delay doesn't cost her life.

[SewingDeb]

Sheriff Orders Review of 911 Tapes in Seattle-Area Missing Woman's Case

SEATTLE — A sheriff has ordered a review of the 911 calls made about a woman who spent more than a week missing before search crews found her trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle.

King County Sheriff Sue Rahr's order comes after Tanya Rider's husband complained that he had to fight to get authorities to launch a search for his wife.

Tom Rider said he asked the sheriff's office last weekend to use cell phone technology to try to find his wife, but was told she couldn't be categorized as a missing person because she wasn't a minor, suicidal or mentally ill.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298621,00.html

[SewingDeb]

Maybe this is why we have so much trouble matching found bodies with missing person's reports:

Case shows difficulty of finding missing adults

King County Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Rodney C. Chinnick told The Associated Press the department took Rider seriously, but that "not showing up at home is not illegal."

"We don't take every missing person report on adults," he told the AP. "If we did, we'd be doing nothing but going after missing person reports."



http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/28/missing.adults/index.html

[concernedperson]

There really needs to be a central location where LE could share reports on UID's and LE should take missing person's reports on adults. Not every adult is wanting to disappear but do without their consent. If, for instance, someone is found and they choose to not be sent home or put in contact, then it is a simple matter of closing the file.

We have so much technology and in the long run it would save municipalities money.

I am glad Tanya will make it through and I am glad that her husband said right away....check me out and then find my wife. 4 days is a long time as proven in this instance. She will have repercussions from this accident (medically) for awhile even though she is out of the woods. Just think, a few days earlier and she could be healthier. JMO.

[CaliKid]

I think her husband did the exact right thing once he realized that he was a suspect in her disappearance. Asked to by poly'd to resolve the issue so they could get on with finding Tanya. It's too bad LE wasted 8 days looking for her. I'm glad she's going to be okay.

[Taximom]

Yay Tom Rider! I hope his wife recovers completely. She's a tough woman to have survived 8 days withouth water etc. Wow!

Hey, Jason Young, why aren't you taking a lie detector test? Or bugging LE to find who killed your pregnant wife?

(sorry)

[CaliKid]

Yay Tom Rider! I hope his wife recovers completely. She's a tough woman to have survived 8 days withouth water etc. Wow!

Hey, Jason Young, why aren't you taking a lie detector test? Or bugging LE to find who killed your pregnant wife?

(sorry)

No need to apologize. I would ask the same thing of all unarrested suspects in murders and disappearances.

[concernedperson]

No need to apologize. I would ask the same thing of all unarrested suspects in murders and disappearances.

Me too, kid, me too!

[LillyRush]

I just read on CNN last night that they are going to review the 911 tapes to see if they may have mishandled anything, if the 911 operator was unprofessional and so on. So, that is a good sign, that they are at least double checking the way they handle these things! :clap:

[PrayersForMaura]

The case of Tanya Rider, the Maple Valley woman found in her crashed car seven days after she vanished, raised questions about searches for missing people.
Since she was found Sept. 27, concerns have surfaced about how quickly cell phone records can be obtained, how her husband’s initial 911 calls were handled and why she wasn’t found sooner.
The News Tribune asked Tacoma police and Pierce County sheriff’s officials how their departments handle missing persons cases.
After saying each case is handled individually, the officials said officers follow the information they receive from those reporting the missing friend or loved one.

More: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/178805.html