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Kim family updates
I’m tying to find updates. Here’s something from Oregon State police:
Following search efforts Friday and early this morning, Curry County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Dennis Dinsmore confirmed that the length of Bear Camp Road was checked by Search & Rescue personnel and deputies using 4 x 4 vehicles and a Sno-Cat without finding any sign of the vehicle. Support air search efforts also have not located any sign of the vehicle in their county. Their efforts, supported by similar search efforts involving Josephine County Sheriff’s Office, found no sign of the vehicle between Grants Pass and Gold Beach.
Personnel from Josephine County Sheriff’s Office, Search & Rescue, and BLM (Bureau of Land Management) will continue to check side roads off Bear Camp Road by Sno-Cat.
Oregon State Police troopers continued during the evening to keep on the lookout while patrolling area highways. Tips continue to be called into the established phone line of 800-452-7888, but none have led to locating the family or vehicle. Approximately 30 calls have been received on the tip line during the last two days.
More from Oregon news here, updated one hour ago.
There’s also been a site set up for flyers and info, www.jamesandkati.com
Another update from News.com:
Following confirmed sightings last Saturday night of missing CNET editor James Kim and his family at a Denny’s restaurant in Roseburg, Ore., search efforts are shifting north to Douglas County, Oregon police said Saturday morning.
Before the Denny’s sighting on Saturday, November 25, they had last been seen earlier that day in Portland, Ore., according to the SFPD’s missing persons’ report.
and also:
Lewis said the last call recorded from James Kim’s cell phone was made to a friend in San Francisco at 3 p.m. and suggested that the call to the hotel may have been made from a landline. She said the SFPD is still waiting for credit card information to come in.
While some Saab models come equipped with the OnStar vehicle security and communications system, the model the Kims were driving did not offer OnStar as an option, said Mike Weinstein, a detective with the Portland Police Bureau’s Missing Persons Unit, who said he also confirmed that information with OnStar using the Kims’ vehicle identification number. The car did not have a LoJack car security system either, Weinstein said.
So it looks like they’re going to start looking a little more North than they were before.
UPDATE 3:14pm 11/4: Oh my god they found Kati and the babies, and they’re looking for James, and they’re close. I’m freaking out. Another press conference at 5. Please please please please let them find James….
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They found him. James is gone.
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#3 written by Niek 5 years ago
I read that they were seen at Denny’s in Roseburg, OR. Do you know if they had some kind of satnav (GPS) in their car, and if so, which type? I wonder what route it would calculate from Roseburg to Gold Beach (and if it would do the same for the “fastest route” or the “shortest route” (you can usually choose between those). maps.google.com is a useful tool for this too, just to get an idea of the area (you can view the satellite imagery with a map overlay [hybrid]). That site takes you via highway 42, but if they just had a paper map, the road south of that might have made more sense to them (it looks quite a bit more direct). The one starting at Wolf Creek. Obviously, in a snow storm, you’d want to take the biggest road. But if they took the 42, i can’t understand why they would ever leave it or take shortcuts in that weather, especially since they were in a hurry to get to their hotel – you’d want to just keep driving and not get off. Also it would be hard to get lost on a highway in the first place. Since the troopers searched this road, i would guess they took the road below. It seems to me they got stuck somewhere on that smaller road, or they just took a wrong exit somewhere, got lost, and stranded by the snow. If you’ve ever driven in heavy snow, you can totally understand how someone might think: “let’s wait an hour until it gets better”. Waiting might have covered the roads completely, making it impossible to continue. Does anyone know if there is reasonable cell phone coverage there? Maybe a network operator could be called in to put a cell phone transmitter in the area? You know, sometimes they use these things for special big events when they expect a lot of strain on the network. If they could place one in the area, maybe it would allow them to make a call? If i were completely lost, i’d probably try my cell phone every now and then. So please, anyone who knows about the coverage: if it’s bad, try to suggest this idea. I’m sure the operators would be happy to assist.
Well, i’ve tried writing down some ideas. Unfortunately there’s not a lot more i can do from where i live. But let’s just stay positive and think of ideas that can really help. It’s not impossible to survive for quite a while when you stay together in a car. And presumably they’d have more than enough to drink (from the snow, rain). And Veronica, you’re doing a great job of keeping everyone updated. news.google.com is also worth mentioning perhaps (search for “james kim” and sort by date).
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I don’t think they were necessarily in a hurry to get to the motel. They had called the motel and said they would be arriving late and the motel said they would just leave the key to the room out for them.
Once this was taken care of getting to the motel in a hurry wasn’t really that important any more.
The information that is missing in my mind is exactly how the conversation went with the motel. Did they say (to the motel) where they were? What route they were coming down on? How late they might be? Etc?
I feel like someone should talk to the motel to find this out.I hate speculating on this situation and I’m sending beams to James and family. Please, send them back safe!
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#8 written by tristan 5 years ago
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I’ve been also keeping track of this with a Google news alert and periodic checks to several news sources keeping track of this story.
I really wish there was more I could do. If I was in Oregon I could at least help with the searching, but I’m on the other side of the country.
I’m keeping him and his family in my thoughts constantly and in my prayers.
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WOW, they did make CNN. This must be getting really big. In the past hour I got 137 video views of this informational video about their dissaperance!
Make is more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe0QIDcaDk
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#17 written by Jorge 5 years ago
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from;
http://kdrv.com/content/contentID/15164
?New information on the missing family is leading the search back to the Bear Camp area in Josephine County.
A cell phone tower received a signal from one of the family?s cell phones last saturday near Glendale, but officials say the signal is only an indicator the family could have been within 26 miles of Glendale late Saturday night. ?
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#24 written by Niek 5 years ago
Wonderful news! They should be finding James soon too. He probably told her what direction he’d travel and maybe they can use dogs or follow footprints or whatever. I guess they stayed by the car to stay relatively warm at night. That was such a great news conference. I was expecting a bit of an update about the progress of the search, and then you get this!
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Thank God for the great news! Will continue to pray for James’ safety. Kudos to the rescuers who are selflessly working so hard in the search and rescue effort.
I watch CNet TV everyday. I get my tech news from just two sites — Apple and CNet. Hope to see James hosting Crave with you again very soon.
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Man, I feel so useless. Wish we could do more and hope that James and family are OK!