RE: Melissa Lane
A compilation of news articles regarding her disappearance
Two of the six hikers missing in Idyllwild over the last five months have been found
41-year-old Melissa Lane was reported missing on June 15th around 9:20 a.m. heading to Idyllwild from Pine Cove. Her phone and her belongings were left behind at her boyfriend's house, according to her sister on a Facebook post. Her mother, tho nervous, is hopeful Lane will be found. She says, “I am very concerned and I miss you Melissa. I love you.”
2 of 6 missing in Idyllwild area found safe; families speak out
Kathy Lamont last spoke with her daughter, Melissa Lane, 41, on June 8. She has been missing since about June 15 and is believed to have gone hiking – something she loved to do alone.
Lamont described her daughter, who lived in Pine Cove, as a loner who loved to hike.
As more people have learned of her daughter’s disappearance, Lamont said, she has been receiving lots of calls, but nothing that leads to Lane’s whereabouts.
“I’ve been praying day and night for her,” Lamont said, adding she has had three dreams recently her daughter is in trouble and screaming out for her.
She described her daughter as 5-foot-2 or 5-foot-3, petite with brownish/reddish hair.
“She looks like a petite little Irish girl,” Lamont said.
Lane doesn’t like carrying cell phones, so didn’t have one with her and usually doesn’t have a backpack when she hikes, her mother said.
“I have cried a river,” Lamont said and hopes if there is a connection between her daughter’s disappearance and the disappearance of the others still missing, investigators will find out soon before harm comes to anyone else.
Detectives investigate 6 missing person cases in and around Idyllwild
The mother of Melissa Lane, 41, reported her daughter missing on July 4 north of Pine Cove.
“She hasn't called anybody she knows. She just disappeared,” said her mother, who asked only to be identified by her first name, Kathy.
The mother said Lane exited a relative’s vehicle near the trailhead to
Black Mountain Truck Trail, eight miles north of Idyllwild and she was never seen again.
“She hiked all over. She wasn't afraid of anything. She had no fear,” said the mother.
Kathy said she spent weeks looking for Lane.
“I think it’s a predator. They could be stealing people for the sex-slave trade or it could be a serial killer,” said Kathy.
