Very lengthy article with lots of pics..
Cold Case Mendocino: One Day After her 31st Birthday, a Long Look at the Odd Disappearance of Asha Kreimer – Redheaded Blackbelt
May 3, 2020 Matt LaFever
Asha Kreimer [Photograph provided by the Help Find Asha Kreimer Facebook page]
''Asha Kreimer was far away from home in the early fall of 2015 living on Mendocino County’s primitive coastline. Growing up in Australia, she moved to California’s Bay Area in October 2011 and fell in love with Jamai Gayle. The couple moved to Albion finding jobs and living the tranquil, rural life known to many on California’s North Coast. In September 2015, Asha showed signs of mental distress including insomnia and sporadically entering catatonic states. Asha’s mental anguish intensified to the point that she was rushed to Fort Bragg’s hospital where Gayle looked on as doctor’s physically restrained his girlfriend. Not deeming her a threat to herself or others, doctors sent her home where Jamai and a visiting childhood friend attempted to soothe Asha in her torment.
On September 21, 2015, Jamai and Sally Scales, the childhood friend, thought it beneficial to get Asha out of the house, sight-see, and eat a meal at a local restaurant. The trio went to Point Arena’s Rollerville Cafe for breakfast. Asha did not touch her plate, engaged little in conversation, and told Gayle she was going to use the restroom. This would be the last confirmed sighting of Asha. Her disappearance would become one of Mendocino County’s most notorious cold cases spawning YouTube videos, podcasts, and documentaries. Five years later, Asha Kreimer’s fate remains a mystery to loved ones and law enforcement.
An overhead perspective depicting Rollerville Cafe’s proximity to the Point Arena Lighthouse and surrounding coastline. [Screenshot of Google Maps]
Asha Kreimer was born on May 2, 1989, in Hilo, Hawaii to Russell and Jeannie Kreimer.. In 1991, with her older sister Gancie, Asha’s family relocated to Redcliffe, Australia where Asha’s mother Jeannie studied midwifery. In 1996, Jeannie and Russell separated and Jeannie took a job as a remote area nurse deep in Australia’s interior in an aboriginal community called Pipalyatjara. Asha and her sister attend school in nearby Alice Springs that Jeannie characterized as a “small, unsafe town where there exists a clash of cultures. There is a disparity between all the different peoples, Somalis, Muslims, personnel from the Pine Gap American Army base.” Jeannie remembered that her daughter Asha “was scared of living there.''
A missing person poster for Asha Kreimer.
