The stays of a younger girl who was reported lacking almost 4 months in the past have been discovered this week in a distant space of Siskiyou County, authorities stated.
A hiker on March 28 reported seeing a physique off the facet of a highway close to U.S. Route 97 and Juniper Terrace, about eight miles northeast of town of Weed, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Workplace stated in an announcement.
Authorities on Thursday used DNA to establish the stays as these of Tatiana Dugger, 19, whose household reported her lacking Jan. 9.
Dugger’s household, who dwell within the Butte County metropolis of Oroville, advised the police Dugger was final seen in Oakland. Her sister advised KTVU information that Dugger was staying with a person the household didn’t know at a motel on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland. Police carried out a welfare examine on the motel room however discovered no signal of a kidnapping or different foul play, the station reported.
Utilizing phone information, Butte County sheriff’s detectives confirmed that Dugger’s final recognized location was Oakland, the sheriff’s workplace stated in an announcement. She had moved to the Los Angeles space about three months earlier than she disappeared, in line with the sheriff’s workplace.
It’s unclear how Dugger ended up in Siskiyou County, about 280 miles from the place she was final seen. The Siskiyou sheriff stated in an announcement that her stays, which have been recovered off the facet of a highway, “appeared to have been there for an prolonged time frame.”
Authorities from Butte and Siskiyou counties didn’t say if anybody had been arrested in reference to Dugger’s disappearance and loss of life. The Butte County detectives investigating her case didn’t instantly return a cellphone message in search of info Saturday.
Anybody with details about the case was requested to contact Butte County detectives at (530) 538-7671 or Siskiyou County authorities at (530) 841-2900.
On Saturday, Dugger’s household modified the acknowledged objective of a GoFundMe submit devoted to her disappearance. It had beforehand been used to lift cash to rent a personal investigator; as of Saturday it was in search of funds to cowl funeral prices.
“Our hearts will eternally be damaged by this information,” Dugger’s sister wrote in a submit Saturday. “Please proceed to maintain our household in your prayers.”
Dugger’s household couldn’t be reached Saturday.
