Recovered/Located WA - Missing woman, 28, located 2 hours later with no memory of what happened

[sasha17]

"One minute, she was standing on the porch of an Edmonds [Washington] home. Two hours later, she woke up in a field near a gas station 2 miles away. She was barefoot and her body was covered in cuts and scrapes."

""The only thing the missing woman remembers for certain is waking up in a 'grass field' with a man kneeling next to her and a woman standing nearby," Edmonds police wrote in a bulletin. "She also remembers running off into a wooded area prior to finding her way to the gas station.""

Mystery Surrounds Shoreline Woman's 2-Hour Disappearance

Edmonds Police on Twitter

 

[10ofRods]

I was just thinking "curiouser and curiouser" and then I saw your avatar.

Indeed.

Chloroform? I mean seriously, this is a tough one.

 

[LadyL]

huh weirdness

 

[sasha17]

I was just thinking "curiouser and curiouser" and then I saw your avatar.

Indeed.

Chloroform? I mean seriously, this is a tough one.

I don't know how chloroform works. Does it knock out one's memory like that? Such a bizarre story.

 

[borndem]

Date rape drugs (GHB and Rohypnol) make you have amnesia -- I don't know how she would have been given it, however. In a cup of coffee from a "friend" perhaps?
Yes, it's a stretch. Dunno. Just odd.

 

[sasha17]

Here is a map from where she was last seen (the fiance's family's house) to where she was found by passersby (the gas station). If she had walked this route and didn't stop, it would take about 30 minutes. She was missing for about two hours total. If her memory of being in a grassy field is accurate, it looks like there are a couple of schools and churches in the area with fields.

Google Map: Google Maps

 

[Laughing]

Grassy field beside Westgate Elementary, a few blocks west of the blue-dot path.

 

[oceanstarryeyes]

Very scary. Did she have shoes on when she was standing on the porch?

 

[borndem]

Let's hope that after a good night's sleep -- if possible for her -- she will be able to remember more. The "cuts and scrapes" part is disturbing -- was she just unfamiliar with the area (likely, esp. at night) or could she have been stumbling due to possibly being drugged?
I "walked" down some areas of the map that @sasha17 (and a big thank-you to sasha17!) gave us, and some of the road areas do not have a very good shoulder for someone walking, but if she took this walk at 12:20 am, it's no wonder. And did she even walk by the roadside? Just mysterious -- hoping for a quick resolution to this. I hope she is much better tomorrow and the next day and the next...

 

[sasha17]

Very scary. Did she have shoes on when she was standing on the porch?

It sounds like it. The press release says that along the way, she lost the black sandals that she was wearing. I wonder if the sandals were eventually found.

 

[sasha17]

This article makes it sound like the sandals are still missing: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/edmonds-police-trying-to-solve-2-hour-gap-in-womans-memory/

"Police hope someone might remember seeing the sandals and can describe where they spotted them. Perhaps, [police Sgt.] Hawley said, someone might have found them in a front yard and wondered how they got there."

 

[Hazelnutty]

Totally bizarre.

 

[PaulR]

Grassy field beside Westgate Elementary, a few blocks west of the blue-dot path.

Also Sherwood which is closer to where she was found. There also seem to be woods nearby.

Edmonds is heavily populated though I'm not sure how busy it would have been that time on a Sunday; Seattle area tends to close up shop early.

 

[sasha17]

I wish LE would release more information. Was the woman drinking/on some medication where she could have had a memory loss event from that? Did she have some pre-existing mental health problems? Does LE think that she was abducted or that she wandered away on her own? Possible abduction would really be scary for the surrounding neighborhoods but if LE thinks it could be related to substance use or mental illness, then there would be no concern for the safety of other people in the neighborhoods. The press release doesn't really say whether they think there's an ongoing community safety issue or not.

 

[10ofRods]

There are mental states called "fugue states" and the more I think about it, this is a possibility. Rare condition, but it does happen.

Fugue state - Wikipedia

 

[renah]

My first thought was a car accident. A hit and run. Maybe she was hit & the force threw her into the grassy field. Her sandals could have flown off because of that, too.

Trauma victims often have no memory of the time prior to impact. Finding those shoes would help clear this up. If it happened the way I'm envisioning, there would be evidence at the impact site.

 

[10ofRods]

My first thought was a car accident. A hit and run. Maybe she was hit & the force threw her into the grassy field. Her sandals could have flown off because of that, too.

Trauma victims often have no memory of the time prior to impact. Finding those shoes would help clear this up. If it happened the way I'm envisioning, there would be evidence at the impact site.

Very true. I hope she's checked for internal injuries. Really strange case.

 

[borndem]

My first thought was a car accident. A hit and run. Maybe she was hit & the force threw her into the grassy field. Her sandals could have flown off because of that, too.

Trauma victims often have no memory of the time prior to impact. Finding those shoes would help clear this up. If it happened the way I'm envisioning, there would be evidence at the impact site.

Good theory -- I wonder if her injuries could somehow show it was a car accident -- is that possible? I hope so...

 

[scandinavian girl]

What about epilepsy? After an grand mal attack my dog just ran off if he happened to be outside, did´t recognize me or were aware of surroundings, just kept running straight ahead until he snapped out of it.

 

[oceanstarryeyes]

We’re all family members in the BF’s household accounted for during the two hours she went missing?
Was she raped?