I am local living about 10 miles from where she was missing and here to sort of tell you what it is like here. First off, the whole hiking thing was not realistic story. There are no hiking trails where they are looking. Lots, lots, and lots of trails to the west, to the east, and to the south of the North Plains area, but North Plains is known for pumpkin farms, Christmas tree farms, and some horse farms. It is NOT known for any trails for you to go park a car and go hiking. And believe me, us Oregonians love to hike. My family actually was in North Plains getting a Christmas tree day after Thanksgiving this year. What is known in the area is that people on drugs are stealing cars, then going to houses to steal packages from porches and break into houses that they believe to be empty for the holidays. My phone gets a lot of neighborhood alerts where someone has the Ring and packages are being taken at midnight or almost every night someone gets a doorbell rung at midnight and video shows a stranger in a hoodie trying to open their door! We have the Ring and we get notices on our phone on any activity on our porch, so we could be halfway across the country and get these. So local police on this case are asking for neighbors to share any Ring videos they might have of someone ringing their doorbell or knocking at midnight.
Also, local police have asked about if anyone has info about her mom getting a phone from someone at Reedville Café. I have been to this restaurant many times. It is nowhere near where Allyson was missing, so feel that it is the phone itself police are trying to get info on, maybe mom gave it to Allyson and police want to use that info to track it. I will say that Reedville Cafe' is a nice, homestyle, family restaurant where you show up and get seated by a hostess. Upkeep is very nice and it's not a bar where someone would bump into someone and just ask to buy a phone from a stranger. I'm saying this because I want to put out there that the police is asking to find out who "gave" the phone to the mom -- not borrowed, not bought. This is not a place where you would randomly show up and hope to get a phone from someone. If this happened, it was most likely a situation where mom arranged to meet someone to buy it from them, maybe craigslist and then they would have most likely met out in parking lot and not inside. The inside has a very small waiting area, but a large parking area. It's location on TV highway is sort of a local landmark for giving directions in the area.
