Found Deceased OR - Gwen Brunelle, 27, from Boise ID, Last Seen in Jordan Valley, 27 June 2023 *Car Found*

[j_in_c]

I hope these latest finds help locate Gwen and bring her home.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

The shirt was found hung up on a lower strand of a barbed wire fence in the Dog Creek drainage. A member of Mountain State Detection Dogs spotted it.

The sheriff said a helicopter pilot volunteering his time flew over the area Friday, locating the boots.

Searchers found the boots and a pair of mismatched socks roughly a mile-and-a-half from where she left her car. The boots were stacked crisscrossed.

Brunelle was wearing the knee-high outdoor boots when she was recorded on a security video stopping at a Nampa service station after leaving home. She had left her Boise house wearing Nike tennis shoes, according to her boyfriend, Gerald Sanderson.

“We thought if she was bare foot, she wasn’t going to be far from those boots. It’s rocky and rough where the boots were,” Johnson said.

He said it’s possible she switched into the tennis shoes, which were missing from her car.

Searchers find boots, socks of woman who disappeared near Jordan Valley - Malheur Enterprise

Helicopter pilot spots boots worn by missing Boise woman, but new search north of Jordan Valley on Saturday, Sept. 23, didn't find Gwen Brunelle. She has been missing since late June.

www.malheurenterprise.com

 

[PommyMommy]

SEP 26, 2023

Boise woman now missing for three months

Tuesday marks three months since a Boise woman disappeared while on a road trip out of state.

www.kmvt.com

Tuesday marks three months since a Boise woman disappeared while on a road trip out of state.

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The Malheur Enterprise reports on September 10, investigators found a t-shirt and this past weekend, a helicopter crew spotted boots and socks approximately a mile and a half from her vehicle, but no sign of Brunelle.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

“We had a crew put on a bunch of miles hiking in that area where her boots and socks were discovered”, says Johnson. “Our thinking was if she had taken her boots off, she wouldn’t have gotten very far, because that ground is pretty unforgiving on the feet. But it turns out we think she may have had another pair of shoes with her.”

More Clothing Found in Search for Missing Woman In Malheur County - Elkhorn Media Group

MALHEUR COUNTY – Even more new clues have emerged in the case of a missing ...Read More

elkhornmediagroup.com

 

[makeadifference]

My question would be why do they think she had another pair of shoes? Just because they didn't find her dead nearby?

What about this case makes any sense that one would come to such a conclusion?

 

[MangoCove]

My question would be why do they think she had another pair of shoes? Just because they didn't find her dead nearby?

What about this case makes any sense that one would come to such a conclusion?

It's because when she left home she was wearing white Nikes. She is wearing boots in the convienence store footage, but now those have been found. The tennis shoes were not in her car and are presumably with Gwen.

Repeated searches near Jordan Valley fail to turn up missing Boise woman – Malheur Enterprise

www.malheurenterprise.com

 

[Knox]

Timeline:

• June 26: Gwen Brunelle left Boise for a solo road trip to California.
• June 27: Last known contact with Brunelle.
  • The last known contact anyone had with Gwen was at around noon on Tuesday, June 27, when she was spotted at the Sinclair Station in Jordan Valley, Oregon. She was traveling in a gray 2008 Honda Element with Idaho license plate 5WT6X.
• June 30: Her vehicle was found.
  • Brunelle's vehicle was found deserted on Friday, June 30.
  • Succor Creek Road in Malheur County, Oregon, just half a mile off of the highway.
• July 10: Police suspended their search.
  • The Malheur County Sherriff has confirmed that the search has been suspended.
• Sept. 10: Two months later, a new clue emerged - the search for Brunelle is resumed.
  • On Sept. 10, a T-shirt belonging to Gwen Brunelle was found tangled in a barbed wire fence roughly 1.5 miles away from her abandoned vehicle - which investigators had located on June 30, four days after her disappearance. The car was found deserted at Succor Creek Road in Malheur County, Oregon, just half a mile off of the highway.
  • Dozens of Gwen's family and friends searched the surrounding area of Succor Creek, both on foot and by all-terrain vehicles. Horseback riders explored areas to the north, ATVs searched trails east of the highway and two miles south of Gwen's car - where her shirt was found at Dog Creek.
  • The website stated that the newfound clue encouraged leadership of Malheur County Search and Rescue to resume search efforts. An organized search is presumably scheduled for this weekend.

Third clue emerges in search for Boise woman missing since June

The boots belonging to Gwen Brunelle were found by a helicopter searcher, making it the third significant clue since her disappearance.

www.ktvb.com

 

[Knox]

Was Gwen having a breakdown at the time she disappeared? Is this what we're leaning towards?

 

[OddOneOut]

She may have worn the boots because of rattlesnakes and changed when they became too hot.

 

[OddOneOut]

I was hoping for more news after they found her boots; after all, that tells them what direction she was headed.

 

[siliconrod]

Where are you Gwen.

 

[haggis]

Still no news?

 

[GraceG]

Gwen's remains have been found. My condolences to her family as they lay her to rest. Remains of long-missing Idaho woman found in Succor Creek area – Malheur Enterprise

 

[sassyblue]

Oh my. Finally. Such a huge area to search but so glad they finally found her. RIP lovely girl.

 

[ortripletmama]

I was just thinking of Gwen recently. I'm glad her family has some closure.

 

[j_in_c]

Gwen's remains have been found. My condolences to her family as they lay her to rest. Remains of long-missing Idaho woman found in Succor Creek area – Malheur Enterprise

They mention that drone imagery helped locate her. Definitely good to know more searches are learning how to utilize those capabilities!

Very glad she will be returned to her family who clearly loved her greatly.

 

[haggis]

Very sad. Her parents wrote a lovely tribute to Gwen on the search page mentioned above, and they also thanked volunteers near and far for helping to search and spread the word about Gwen.

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Malheur County Sheriff Travis Johnson confirmed the discovery of Gwen Brunelle’s remains in area about 18 miles north of Jordan Valley in the Succor Creek area.

An analysis of drone photography yielded crucial clues that led to her discovery, according to her father, Andy Brunelle of Boise.

Woman missing since June found dead in E. Oregon

Gwen Brunelle was 27 when she left her Boise home in June 2023 with a car loaded with 11 show rabbits for what she told her family was a trip to California.

www.oregonlive.com

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Malheur County Sheriff's Deputies searched the location given to them and recovered human remains that were determined by the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office through dental records to be Gwendolyn Brunelle.

Remains of missing Idaho woman found nearly a year after disappearance

The remains of an Idaho woman who has been missing since June 2023 have been found.

www.abc3340.com

 

[ohemgee.kay925]

This is one of those cases I just wish we had answers for. Deepest condolences to Gwen's loved ones.