Perry, who police found dead inside a culvert at Ainsworth State Park, 35 miles east of the city, had a history of substance abuse and mental health problems, her mother, Diana Allen, told Fox News Digital.
Perry’s mother believed she had been living in a tent in neighboring Vancouver, but learned later that her daughter was last seen at an open-air fentanyl market in Portland – where she overdosed.
Perry was taken to the hospital and revived with a dose of Narcan, her mother told Fox News Digital.
But she was released without any verification of her address, no one looked up her background and the hospital did not reach out to her emergency contact – her mother – about the incident.
“I had been trying to find her, but every time I went to the tent she was staying out, she wouldn’t be there,” Allen told Fox News Digital. “At first, I didn’t know she went to Portland till the detective informed me of this. They can’t give me a day of death, but are pretty sure it was April.”
Allen said she could not discuss specifics of the case due to the ongoing investigation but said she believes the evidence shows her daughter was taken to the location in the park in an attempt to conceal her remains.
“It seems like a lot of work for a drug overdose,” she said. “So, I’m stuck on this f---ed up ride I call the ring of fire. One side is trying to reach for everything that may have a more innocent reasoning behind it. The other sucks you down a rabbit hole that I fear I may never get out of.”
Police in a statement last week downplayed concerns of a serial killer after the bodies of six women were discovered in and around the city in a five-month span.
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