CA CA - Rebecca Jones 48, diabetic w/insulin pump, left campsite 11:30am, maybe walked twd ocean 200 yds away, Hardy Creek north of Westport, 5 Jan 2024

[Unalienable Rights]

https://kymkemp.com/2024/01/06/search-underway-for-missing-camper-north-of-westport/

Press release from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office:

Rebecca Jones came to the Mendocino Coast to stay with a friend in the area of Hardy Creek (north of Westport, CA) for the weekend.

On 01-05-2024 at approximately 11:30 AM Jones walked away from the location where she was camping and has not been heard from nor seen since.

Jones was last seen wearing green pants, a red hoodie sweatshirt, and a black and white hat.

Jones had no hiking gear, food, or water with her when she left, and her suspected direction of travel was toward the Pacific Ocean approximately 200 yards from her campsite.

Jones is diabetic and wears an insulin pump on her belt. Jones does have experience hiking in the outdoors but did not inform anyone that she was leaving on a hike.

Cell phone service in the area where Jones was last seen is very poor to non-existent depending on the carrier.

Deputy’s immediate search efforts for Jones during the night of 01-05-2024 produced no evidence or signs of Jones whereabouts.

Deputies and members from the Mendocino County Search & Rescue Team are continuing search efforts today (01-06-2024).

Anyone with information on Jones’ current whereabouts or potential sightings can be reported to the Sheriff’s Office Dispatch Center by calling 707-463-4086.

 

[GraceG]

If you search the comments on the Sheriff's FB page, someone has made comments about a "water rescue" underway in the area. The only water rescue noted in the media for that area was that location, but it was 4 months ago. So no verifiable information on this woman. Given the cold temperatures, I do hope she's found shelter.

 

[Knox]

Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office issued a missing person alert for Rebecca Jones, 48, who had traveled to the coast to stay for the weekend with a friend around Hardy Creek north of Westport.

Were they at a campground? Odd that she would just walk away without saying something to the friend?

Hardy Creek Beach in Westport, CA - California Beaches

Hardy Creek Beach in Mendocino County is located where Highway 1 turns inland and heads north never to return to the coast. The beach is in a small cove

www.californiabeaches.com

Hardy Creek · California 95488

River

www.google.com

 

[Knox]

Mendocino Sheriff​

UPDATED POST 01-07-2024 @ 3:30 PM:

On 01-06-2024 searchers found Rebecca Jones' clothing and a body trapped in some rocks in the ocean near the shoreline. This was near where Jones went missing.

Recovery attempts were unsuccessful due to hazardous surf conditions and there were plans to attempt recovery today or on 01-08-2024 once conditions became safe.

A recovery of the body was not attempted today as the surf conditions were still dangerous and unsafe.

The body is unidentified at this time, but speculation is that the body is that of Jones.

The Sheriff's Office is planning for a recovery operation tomorrow with the assistance of several other public safety agencies.

 

[Knox]

Look like they found her

 

[Knox]

Search and rescue crews have located human remains stuck in the rocks off the northern Mendocino Coast not far from clothing matching that of a Santa Cruz woman who disappeared while camping nearby Friday.

A cellphone and other personal items belonging to 48-year-old Rebecca Jones were with the clothes when search crews found the remains Saturday, Mendocino County Sheriff’s Capt. Greg Van Patten said Sunday.

But hazardous surf and the position of a heavy boulder trapping the body in the water prevented crews from recovering the body for a positive identification both Saturday and Sunday, Van Patten said.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/body-found-on-north-mendocino-coast-may-be-that-of-missing-camper/

 

[Unalienable Rights]

MCSO: Body found along Mendocino Coast likely missing Santa Cruz woman

A body found near the shore in the northwest section of Mendocino County has been recovered from the ocean but not yet officially identified, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported Tu…

www.ukiahdailyjournal.com

A body found near the shore in the northwest section of Mendocino County has been recovered from the ocean but not yet officially identified, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office reported Tuesday.

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On Tuesday, Van Patten confirmed that the body had been recovered Monday afternoon, but that an official identification was still “pending due to condition of the body.” He said that the MCSO was working on using “latent prints of DNA” in order to positively identify the remains.

 

[Limecat]

How awful. i can’t imagine knowing my deceased loved one is in the ocean, stuck, and having to just leave her there until it was possible to recover her! It’s truly heartbreaking on every level. May the deceased rest in peace (on the assumption it is Rebecca).

 

[wendybtn]

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/body-seen-california-woman-missing-18596097.php