Deng set out to collect mushrooms in rural Del Norte county, California. When she wasn’t home in the evening, her son assumed she went to the local casino so he didn’t want to upset her by calling. He realized something was amiss when she wasn’t home the following morning when he woke. The weather has been foul- some parts of DN have had over 25” of rain since the first of the year. The Smith River was just a few feet short of the Christmas Flood levels from ‘64 in mid January.
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Siblings hoping for answers in January disappearance of California mother Deng Vongphachan; “It just doesn’t make any sense”
The 71-year-old mushroom picker’s truck was found abandoned on January 5 in Del Norte County, California.
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