I've been listening to Ron & Don's show on Kiro radio. The son told them that it seems to him that the police do not regard this as a probable crime. A few days ago they were talking about taking the dog back to the mountain in the hopes he'd lead them to Patty. Now they have turned to dog over to her boyfriend. (IMO, they have probably decided that the weather is too bad to allow for a search, and/or the expense is not justified.) The son told a story I hadn't heard before that awhile back he had been searching the mountain and climbed a tree. While he was in the tree he was pretty sure he heard the dog barking. This was when the police were still maintaining that Patty was probably not on the mountain. The son said that after he heard the dog, he was going to organize a search starting at the location of the tree ... but the weather was too bad for the search.
I admire the son for staying right on the case and all he is doing to find his mother. I hope they are able to find her soon and determine just what happened to her.
I don't know what to think about the boyfriend. If it had just been him and Patty on the mountain, I'd be very suspicious. But there were other people with them, and I can't see them all being involved in a crime and then successfully covering it up. It sounds to me as though they are primarily cavalier people, to have watched her walk off and just shrug like "oh well, there she goes." They said they called to her that she was going the wrong way ... but she wouldn't return to the group. If that had been my circle of friends and one of us did that, then one of the other friends would have gone with the wandering person. My circle would not let someone just wander off alone in that kind of terrain.
On Ron & Don, they said Patty and the group were supposed to scatter ashes; and the upset concerned Patty not being able to let go of the ashes ... not wanting to scatter them. I hadn't heard that before.
May Patty's son be guided to her and be enabled to learn that which he deserves to know.
