Interesting article which mentions Lael
Erika Grant Burkhouse’s sister, Lael Grant, was last seen early the morning of Oct. 15, 2012 driving away from a friend’s trailer in Sitka. Five days later, the car she was driving was found where a logging road came to a dead end.
“We literally scoured the town,” Burkhouse said. “I mean, out the road, up the mountain. When the car was found five days later, then we focused on that area. We searched for two weeks. We just didn’t find anything at all.”
Lund shared her expertise and advised the family on creating its own Help Find Lael Grant Facebook page.
“She truly was a Godsend,” Burkhouse said. “She kind of walked us through many parts of it, even the investigation, and what we needed to do because we had no clue what we were doing. You’re so overwhelmed.”
Burkhouse described her sister as a wonderful person and loving mother, but also a woman consumed by drug addiction. Sitka police consider her disappearance a possible homicide. Sitka is an island; she had no money or means to leave. Her family, seeking closure, filed for her death certificate last year.
“That one has always stayed with me, will always stay with me,” Lund said. “I think I see my own mother in Lael, with the drug abuse, wanting to be sober but just never grasping that sobriety. My mom could have come up missing just as easily, you know, in and out of drug deals.”
http://www.anchoragepress.com/features-cover/accidental-activist