AZ AZ - Mary Sloan, 53, Mt Graham, 3 Sept 2015

[lindamichelle1]

Updated Namus: The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

 

[RazzmatAZ]

I live I'm Safford and frequent Mt. Graham. There are a lot of cliffs and a lot of bears. We get bears in the valley and up top. Most are harmless, but if they become nuisances they fly them to another mountain range that has no roads.

 

[Pennysmom1]

Mary is still listed as missing

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

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Missing Age 53 Years
Current Age 62 Years
Legal First Name Mary
Middle Name Lucille
Legal Last Name Sloan
Chosen Name/Nickname/Alias Little Mary

Biological Se xFemale
Height 5' 0" - 5' 3" (60 - 63 Inches)
Weight 110 lbs
Race / Ethnicity White / Caucasian

Circumstances​

Date of Last Contact September 1, 2015
NamUs Case Created November 5, 2016

Last Known Location​

Location Graham, Arizona
County Graham County
Missing From Tribal Land--
Primary Residence on Tribal Land--

Circumstances of Disappearance Mary went camping with 7 other adults and was found missing the first morning. All of her camping gear was found bed rolled up food etc. was found in her tent. Her purse was also located in the tent

Physical Description​

Hair Color Brown
Head Hair Description Long thin brown / blonde hair
Body Hair Description--
Facial Hair Description--
Left Eye Color Unknown
Right Eye Color Unknown
Eye Description No glasses or contacts

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Clothing and Accessories​

Clothing green shirt and blue jeans
Footwear Hiking boots
Jewelry Small bracelet, necklace gold "thumbprint and ashes.





Nov 14, 2023

The strange disappearance of Mary Sloan from Mount Graham — StrangeOutdoors.com

Mary Lucille Sloan, disappeared September 3, 2015, Columbine area, near Mount Graham, Arizona Revised July 2024 53-year-old Mary Sloan, went on a group trip to Mount Graham in Arizona on September 3, 2015, in the Columbine area. The eight hikers pitched camp off of a Forest Service access road,

www.strangeoutdoors.com

<<53-year-old Mary Sloan, went on a group trip to Mount Graham in Arizona on September 3, 2015, in the Columbine area. The eight hikers pitched camp off of a Forest Service access road, not at an established campground, and Mary was last seen at around 8.30 pm when several of the group went to sleep. The site was about a quarter-mile from Grandview Peak Road and about two miles from Riggs Lake and was situated close to a steep cliff. The area is isolated and some way up a curving mountain road.

Mary was still dealing with the loss of her husband, who passed a few months before the trip.

The next morning, Mary was not in her tent, and her cell phone, purse and bag were left at the campsite. It appeared that she had not slept in her tent. She had vanished. She wore a green shirt and blue jeans the last time she was seen. >>

 

[Pennysmom1]

I don't know about you but I never use a camp site if I can help it. If they went to party I could see why not a regular camp ground.

IMO, the hikers weren't out to party. The StrangeOutdoors article I linked in the post above said some of them went to bed at 8:30 pm.

This might sound dumb, but maybe she walked a little ways to go to the bathroom in the woods, and got turned around. Maybe she walked the wrong way and got lost.