Found Deceased OR - Meighan Cordie, 27, Yamhill County, 18 Aug 2018

[bellesnwhistles]

I just thought of another scenario
A horrible one

What if she jumped out and the mom drive forward a bit until she found somewhere safe to turn around. On her way back to where she jumped out she’s looking along the side of the road and accidentally hit her daughter on the curb. She would have been driving erratically while drunk and while searching the side of the road at night?? Then the mom panicked since she was drunk and didn’t want to be charged with manslaughter?

I don’t know. Maybe my imagination is too wild. I didn’t get much sleep last night

Not gonna lie, that crossed my mind too. The daughter's bf (and father of her children) was in the car too though right?

 

[Deleted member 122964]

All the possible scenarios that have been posted so far are interesting, yet these scenarios' accuracy all hinge upon information that we don't have yet. There is not much information at all. We don't know whether the mom was sober. We don't know how intoxicated Meighan was. We don't know what the argument concerned. We don't know what direction she proceeded. We don't know where she intended to go. We don't know how she ended up where she did (on foot, in car?). We don't know if the blunt force trauma came from a fall, a car, a malevolent person. I think I will wait for more information. There's really nothing else we can do at this point.

Just sayin'. . .

 

[KaaBoom]

Thank you! Do we know where she lived to see if that's a direction she would walk if she was trying to go home? It doesn't look like she was (successfully) walking back to the wedding venue.

I haven't seen anything on where she lived. But the location where she was found would seem to be on the way to most any location except south towards Salem.

 

[bluesneakers]

Bizarre. Why would you drive away when your drunk adult daughter got out of the car without her phone? She couldn't call anyone else for a ride. That can't be the whole story.

Two things I can think of, not saying likely or this is what happened:
Mother was impaired and not thinking clearly, or extremely angry (maybe this has happened before?)
Daughter was going to get a ride in a car that was right behind them at the time

It's sad to say but I've seen angry mothers behave like this although they usually came to their senses. So IMO if that's what happened I would expect she turned around after another 200 meters and went back to get her daughter.

 

[KaaBoom]

Yeah, I don't know. You'd think she would have been able to stop her if that was the case.

If she wanted to stop her.

 

[Lilibet]

Thank you! Do we know where she lived to see if that's a direction she would walk if she was trying to go home? It doesn't look like she was (successfully) walking back to the wedding venue.

Reports refer to her as formerly from Salem, living in Clackamas (which is both a county and a town) near Portland. It is to the east and is not close to where she was found for someone walking.

 

[KaaBoom]

In my theory, she intended to walk back to the wedding, but obviously something happened and she ended up somewhere else.

My theory is based on figuring out why the mom would let her walk away. I think it's because Meighan intended to get back to the wedding site and the mom assumed she could make it that far (one mile, it seems).

jmo

A mile away, in the dark, with no shoes, and no phone? I don't think it matters where the mother thought she was going. It was completely irresponsible of her to let her daughter out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.

 

[Lilibet]

A mile away, in the dark, with no shoes, and no phone? I don't think it matters where the mother thought she was going. It was completely irresponsible of her to let her daughter out in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night.

She may not have been able to control whether Meighan got out of the car with no shoes or phone, but the responsible thing to do would have been to keep her in sight and/or call for help. But that’s only based on the information we have, which is obviously incomplete. So there could be a reasonable explanation for the Mom thinking she was safe. A stretch, I know, but I’m not ready to criticize Mom yet.

 

[Suglo]

If the mother was impaired herself then there’s a good chance she doesn’t remember correctly where her daughter jumped out of the car. Also did she say she jumped while driving or did she stop and let her walk off? If she jumped while driving she could have hit her head and rolled down that embankment. I highly doubt the daughter walked 8 miles barefoot.

 

[bluesneakers]

OT: Just realized why I've now had two dreams about living back on the farm in Yamhill County.

 

[bluesneakers]

If the mother was impaired herself then there’s a good chance she doesn’t remember correctly where her daughter jumped out of the car. Also did she say she jumped while driving or did she stop and let her walk off? If she jumped while driving she could have hit her head and rolled down that embankment. I highly doubt the daughter walked 8 miles barefoot.

On pavement, or gravel or dirt, and in the dark. Agree 100%.

 

[bluesneakers]

She may not have been able to control whether Meighan got out of the car with no shoes or phone, but the responsible thing to do would have been to keep her in sight and/or call for help. But that’s only based on the information we have, which is obviously incomplete. So there could be a reasonable explanation for the Mom thinking she was safe. A stretch, I know, but I’m not ready to criticize Mom yet.

A stretch, but if they were coming from the wedding and both knew a friend was close behind them it might not seem unreasonable.

 

[JDough]

Reports refer to her as formerly from Salem, living in Clackamas (which is both a county and a town) near Portland. It is to the east and is not close to where she was found for someone walking.

The distance is 48 miles from Grand Island/Dayton to the Clackamas/Happy Valley area.

I am less than 5 miles from the Clackamas/Happy Valley area, and like Meighan, formerly lived in the Salem area.

I have been to the Dayton area numerous times, but cannot recall if the on-ramp where she was found is the only direction she could have taken to get home. I just know Grand Island/Dayton is very remote, and would be very dark at 10:30pm.

 

[Lilibet]

The distance is 48 miles from Grand Island/Dayton to the Clackamas/Happy Valley area.

I am less than 5 miles from the Clackamas/Happy Valley area, and like Meighan, formerly lived in the Salem area.

I have been to the Dayton area numerous times, but cannot recall if the on-ramp where she was found is the only direction she could have taken to get home. I just know Grand Island/Dayton is very remote, and would be very dark at 10:30pm.

I wondered about the direction too, but according to the map, there really is no easy way to cross the Willamette River to go east toward Clackamas unless you go north to Dayton and then east on 18/99 etc.

 

[bellesnwhistles]

I thought I read that Meighan's boyfriend was also in the car. Can anyone confirm that? And if he was, was it him or the mom driving?

 

[Lilibet]

I thought I read that Meighan's boyfriend was also in the car. Can anyone confirm that? And if he was, was it him or the mom driving?

I don’t recall seeing anything about anyone but her Mom in the car. Perhaps you saw something about the bf on SM?

“According to officials, Meighan Cordie left a wedding in the Grand Island area with her mother, when about 10:30 p.m. they got into an argument and Meighan walked away from the vehicle.”

Search for woman who went missing after Salem-area wedding unsuccessful Tuesday

 

[KaaBoom]

She may not have been able to control whether Meighan got out of the car with no shoes or phone, but the responsible thing to do would have been to keep her in sight and/or call for help. But that’s only based on the information we have, which is obviously incomplete. So there could be a reasonable explanation for the Mom thinking she was safe. A stretch, I know, but I’m not ready to criticize Mom yet.

But instead of doing the responsible thing, she decided to go home, and go to bed, with her daughter still wandering around in the dark with no shoes and no phone. I don't see how this can come out good for the mother, whether she thought Meighan was going back to the farm, or was going to hitchhike home.

 

[Lilibet]

But instead of doing the responsible thing, she decided to go home, and go to bed, with her daughter still wandering around in the dark with no shoes and no phone. I don't see how this can come out good for the mother, whether she thought Meighan was going back to the farm, or was going to hitchhike home.

True. I hear you. But we don’t have all the facts, so I’m really hoping for a reasonable explanation that absolves the Mom. I’m just so tired of the “mom hurts (or allows to be hurt) kid” scenario. Even an adult is still your kid.

 

[KaaBoom]

True. I hear you. But we don’t have all the facts, so I’m really hoping for a reasonable explanation that absolves the Mom. I’m just so tired of the “mom hurts (or allows to be hurt) kid” scenario. Even an adult is still your kid.

I agree. I'm trying to think of a reasonable explanation for her behavior, but I can't think of any. Unless the news reports have the facts wrong, but if that is the case, nobody seems to be trying to correct them.

 

[nd1313]

A mile is still pretty far to let your drunk daughter walk barefoot back to the wedding. I'm inclined to believe the mother was impaired herself.

My first thought was that it was dark, so someone might not have seen her walking and hit her by accident. Seeing as LE is still not talking, and such little information has been shared, I'm leaning towards that something more sinister happened.