After reading the news articles,
I can only say that it does not look good.
4:15pm last heard from by text she sent.
10pm car found, 40 miles away, rural area, parked in a driveway.
Only thing missing, debit card.
One set of footprints leading from car.
No sign of her found in four days.
One scenario:
She knows someone in that area.
She parks her car 'in the driveway', but is off to the side, just speculation on my part. She leaves with someone else.
An old friend, a new friend?
Another scenario:
She is taken to this area by someone who abducted her car and her.
Her debit card is missing. Should atm's be checked from Wenatchee along the path to where the car was found?
Maybe she was forced to take money out. Forced to give out her pin number.
She could have been hurt seriously and left somewhere between last heard from and car found.
The abductor could have parked the car there. If so, he/she must live nearby.
Any sign the car seat was moved back? Any foreign dna?
I only hope she is found soon.
Wenatchee resident here, just wanted to sign up and hopefully clear up a few details.
That area of Pitcher canyon is extremely rural. The road becomes dirt and very primitive before the 2300 block (though it can't be rightly called a block). There are only a few houses in the area where the car was left, spread very far apart. The road splits and becomes dirt (mud right now), there are several large areas a car could be parked and these areas are amongst outbuildings, farm equipment, old cars, animal enclosures and rubbish. I don't know for certain, but my impression from what others are saying and knowing the area myself is that the car was not left in someone's driveway proper (not what any of us would think of when we think of a driveway), but rather someones muddy right-of-way parking area filled with random stuff.
One set of footprints means they belong to Mackenzie or whoever dumped her car. The police are staying tight lipped on this detail.
Of course forensics have not been lab analyzed but according to local LE there is nothing immediately suspicious found in or on the car.
As mentioned, debit card is said to be missing, I think it is probably on her. Someone on the newspaper forum (I believe a friend or relative) states that her cell is turned off.
I hate to say it but putting together the train of facts and events I do not believe Mackenzie is with us any longer. I also tend to believe that whoever has done this was a trusted person in her life, not a stranger abduction or anything like that. I hope I'm wrong.
Ummm, let's see, I'm trying to address everything I can think of.
Pitcher canyon is a canyon within a canyon, if that makes any sense. The main road is called Squilchuck and it eventually terminates at a popular skiing resort called Mission ridge. Pitcher Canyon is one of the canyons that branches off the Squilchuck canyon road. My thought? Mackenzie went for a ride with someone she knew and trusted, up Squilchuck. Maybe up to the Ridge, maybe up to Beehive (another recreational road branching off from Squilchuck), maybe up to the Heights (Yet another area accessible from Squilchuck). All of these areas contain popular teen make-out sites. For some reason this trip went terribly wrong and after it went wrong her companion panicked and decided to ditch the car up Pitcher. Pitcher canyon is the last turn off before entering Wenatchee proper and perhaps they were afraid to be seen driving her car back into town or captured on any kind of surveilance. Whoever it was probably lives within a few miles and after ditching the car walked back to town. This is just my theory. I cannot think of any circumstances whatsoever that this girl would park her car up there and walk away. The road goes nowhere. The car had to have been left there intentionally. There is nothing to indicate any distress in her life that would make her act out.
If she met with foul play in any of these areas I believe she WILL be found. This area is highly recreated all year long, and the access would have been limited to the perp in her sedan due to primitive roads, snow and mud. If she is up there alone she should not be far off a road well traveled.
I'll reread all comments and try and address anything I see that I can answer.
So tragic, the whole community is just stunned and baffled.
