Lisa Harvey - Missing - Ventura

[LadyBlue]

Here's a look at the route Lisa Harvey was taking when she disappeared early Sunday on her way from Ventura to Lake Isabella to visit a cousin. Steve Byerly
www.vcstar.com/story/news/2017/05/04/search-missing-ventura-woman-takes-air-extends-north/101289000/

Searchers continued to look for a Ventura woman on Thursday more than four days after she disappeared somewhere along Highway 99 north of Bakersfield.

Searchers are not only looking for Lisa Harvey from the ground but also from the air, her niece Amanda Thorn said Thursday from Ventura.

Harvey was last heard from shortly after midnight on Sunday after a voicemail was left during a call made from Harvey's cellphone. The message contained no speech, only muffled sounds in what appears to have been an accidental call, her niece said.

While the initial search focused on Kern County, Thorn said the search was extended into Tulare County after searchers failed to find any sign of Harvey.

By Thursday, the search also extended into Inyo County, east of Lake Isabella, Thorn said.

She said searchers found a pilot who was going to look for Harvey and her vehicle from the air on Thursday. They were also looking into using drones, she said.

Harvey left Ventura on Saturday with plans to drive the 160 miles to Lake Isabella to visit a cousin, Thorn said. But the 51-year-old woman never arrived, Thorn said.

Thorn said her aunt took Highway 126 out of Ventura, stopping in Fillmore to visit a friend. Harvey then got back on Highway 126 and then Interstate 5 before taking Highway 99 to Bakersfield, where she planned to take Highway 178 to Lake Isabella.

Harvey called a friend late Saturday from a service station on Highway 99 in Tulare County after she realized she'd missed the Highway 178 turnoff in Bakersfield, Thorn said.

Harvey told the friend "she was going back," she said. The friend asked if that meant Harvey was returning to Ventura and Harvey said she was going south to find the exit to Highway 178.

That was the last time anyone is known to have spoken to her aunt, Thorn said.

Harvey's cousin alerted authorities around 9 p.m. Sunday that Harvey was missing, Thorn said.

Harvey is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall, with red hair and hazel eyes, and weighing 230 to 270 pounds, according to a flier distributed by the Kern County Sheriff's Office. She was driving a white 2000 Toyota Solara with California license plate 4KKU552.

Anyone with information on Harvey or who may have seen her car is asked to call the Kern County Sheriff's Office at 661-861-3110 or the Tulare County Sheriff's Office at 559-733-6211.

[LadyBlue]

***PLEASE HELP FIND LISA HARVEY***
Lisa Harvey went missing April 29, 2017 when she was traveling from Ventura to Lake Isabella. Law Enforcement has verified that Lisa's last communication was a phone call at 11:50PM to a friend stating she had filled up her gas tank and her cell phone pinged a tower in Palmdale. Lisa was last seen when she asked the clerk of the ARCO gas station for directions to Lake Isabella. The clerk misunderstood Lisa and accidently gave her directions to Lake Elizabeth instead. Lisa was last seen wearing White short sleeve top, blue cuffed jeans, black sandals. PLEASE SHARE!
*NOTE* It is not clear if Lisa took her medication and/or if she had a limited supply with her and it is believed that she did not have food/water for traveling.
Anyone with information regarding the location of Lisa Harvey is asked to call her Family; Jennifer [phone] OR Kern County Sheriff's Office at [phone] and refer to case number 2017-01042280.
www.facebook.com/groups/652395934958859/

Name: Lisa Gail Harvey
Age: 51
DOB: 3/27/1966
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 230-270 pounds
Hair: Red
Eyes: Hazel
Vehicle: White 2000 Toyota Solara, CA LICENSE # 4KKU552
Medical problems: High Blood Pressure
Identifying features: Left nostril is pierced with a nose ring, she likes to wear sunglasses and headbands/bandannas to hold her hair back.

[LadyBlue]

***ROADS ALREADY SEARCHED***
3 points road
Bouquet canyon road
Elizabeth lake road
Johnson rd
Lake Elizabeth Road
Lake Hughes Road
Munz ranch road
Pine Canyon Road
Ranch Center Dr all the way until it connected to Ave S

[LadyBlue]

I'm so worried about this woman. The police municipalities are tossing around her case like a damn football, meanwhile back she's out there somewhere in need of help.

I know she's been in a car crash, I can just feel it, and the longer the search goes on, the less likely a good outcome. Why are the police not helping in the searches,
this pisses me off to no end. They should be ashamed of themselves!! Leaving it up to the family to do the searches, ridiculous. They can't be THAT damn busy.

I attempted to help on their search facebook, suggesting they check for broken branches on trees, and told them that the car might be hidden somehow laying with only the black underside of the car visable. They need to start searching bodies of water, but I hate to even suggest it at this point. They may not even have the resources to do that.

There's a body of water off Lake Elizabeth road, it's Lake Elizabeth and there's a bend in the road that's rather close to what looks like would be quite a drop off into the lake. I don't like it and it needs to be searched.

This is where I get myself into trouble. Do I suggest it, or do I just sit like I've been doing for days now and not say anything. I hate my heart sometimes.

Had she followed the directions that she was mistakenly given in Palmdale, and not realized it, this is the route she would have taken. I know the family has been searching in this area, but I've seen it so many times, where even LE has overlooked an upside down vehicle, walked right past it.

I may be wrong but I don't feel that I am, she's somewhere off the road and has been there since that night. I know what it's like to not be able to see well at even dusk, it's horrible, so I don't drive after dusk.

Lord, please intervene in this case, see to it that Lisa's family gets the resources necessary to find her, and soon.

[LadyBlue]

LE should be reminded of this case:

Tanya Rider, 33, was found alive but dehydrated at the bottom of a steep ravine in suburban Maple Valley on Thursday, more than a week after she failed to return home from work. After being cut out of her SUV by rescuers, she was taken to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center, where she was in critical condition.

Dr. Lisa McIntyre said during a hospital news conference Friday that while Rider was doing better, she’s “not out of the woods yet.” McIntyre said Rider’s kidneys failed because of toxins from a muscle injury in the crash and dehydration. She was sedated, on a ventilator and being treated with intravenous fluids.

Rider broke her collarbone and dislocated her shoulder in the accident and has pressure sores from the days of being held by the seat belt, probably upside down, the doctor said. Her caregivers were not yet sure the extent of a leg injury but McIntyre said they were hopeful it would not have to be amputated.
She said Rider was probably alive because she was young and healthy and was wearing a seat belt.

“She’s a fighter, obviously,” said Rider’s husband, Tom. “She fought to stay alive in the car, and she’s fighting now.”

Husband critical of police
Tom Rider said he was frustrated by the red tape he had to fight to get authorities to launch a search for his wife more than a week after she disappeared.

“Any policy that restricts officers from saving a life is a wrong policy,” he said. “No one else should have to go through what she went through.”
Authorities found the Maple Valley woman after detecting the general location of her cell phone Thursday morning, then searching along Highway 169 near Renton, southeast of Seattle, the route she took home from work. They noticed some matted brush, and below it found Rider’s vehicle, smashed on its side, State Patrol spokesman Jeff Merrill said.

Tanya Rider left work at a Fred Meyer grocery store in Bellevue on Sept. 19 but never made it home. Tom Rider said that when he couldn’t reach her, he called Bellevue police to report her missing.

Bellevue police took the report right away, but when they found video of Tanya Rider getting into her car after work, they told her husband the case was out of their jurisdiction and he should notify King County, he said. Tom Rider said he tried that, but “the first operator I talked to on the first day I tried to report it flat denied to start a missing persons report because she didn’t meet the criteria,” he said.

“I basically hounded them until they started a case and then, of course, I was the first focal point, so I tried to get myself out of the way as quickly as possible. I let them search the house. I told them they didn’t have to have a warrant for anything, just ask,” he said.

Husband asked to take polygraph test
Thursday morning, detectives asked him to come in to sign for a search of phone records. They also asked him to take a polygraph test.

“By the time he was done explaining the polygraph test to me, the detective burst into the room with a cell phone map that had a circle on it,” he said.

His wife’s car tumbled about 20 feet down a ravine and lay buried below brush and blackberry bushes. The air bags deployed, but she was injured and trapped. Rescuers had to cut the roof off to get her out.

“I know there were delays (in finding her) because of red tape,” Tom Rider said.
Tom Rider said he also drove the route where his wife was found but didn’t see any sign of a crash. He also offered a $25,000 reward for any information leading to her safe return.

Authorities said they followed procedure in the case.

“It’s not that we didn’t take him seriously,” Deputy Rodney C. Chinnick said. “We don’t take every missing person report on adults. ... If we did, we’d be doing nothing but going after missing person reports.”
www.nbcnews.com/id/21020571/ns/us_news-life/t/woman-missing-days-found-alive-ravine/#.WQimf9orI2w

Sheriff apologizes to husband of trapped woman

SEATTLE -- King County Sheriff Sue Rahr has apologized to the husband of a woman who spent more than a week trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle, saying the sheriff's office could have done more to help him as he tried to get his wife's disappearance investigated.

"Could we have done more? Yes, we could have," Rahr said at a news conference Thursday.

With Tom Rider standing next to her, Rahr said the sheriff's office could have eased his frustration by better explaining how missing-persons cases are processed and by giving him more specific instructions about what he could do while he was waiting for more help from detectives.

[LadyBlue]

Tanya Rider writes a book
abcnews.go.com/US/tanya-rider-trapped-days-car-writes-book/story?id=12682635

[LadyBlue]

I am so pissed....all this time that Lisa's been missing, the family has just found out that she wasn't EVER in Palmdale, that she never spoke to a gas station attendant there and that her last cell ping was on 4-29-2017 at 11:51 p.m. was in between Pixley & Tulare - More towards Tipton/Tulare (Tipton is N. of Pixley) on the 99, when she spoke to her family member. She had missed her turn off to Lake Isabella and needed to get gas and head back to the turn off she had missed.

I had a feeling right from the start that they were searching too much south. By Lisa's own words, she was heading SOUTH to find the turn off to 178 that would take her to Lake Isabella. When looking at the map, is she had indeed been in Palmdale, she wouldn't have gone south to find 178.

The police agency's have kicked Lisa directly into harms way by not giving the family the correct info at the beginning. She may have been saved, but now, I highly doubt it. Had she not been terribly hurt, had she had plenty of water with her and able to grab it, she may have been ok for awhile. But she would have had to be somehow stuck in the car not to be able to even try and walk to safety.

Someone is going to need to answer for this. This wasn't handled correctly.

[LadyBlue]

Her last bank transaction at the gas station should give them an idea of which station she might have used. Who is in charge of this investigation. I wonder if they could request the information, the family I mean. With no proof that anything has happened to Lisa, I'm thinking not. And had she used cash, which I don't think she would have, driving alone with cash would be ridiculous, they wouldn't be able to know which station she stopped at. I'm thinking that it would be at one on the 99.

Chevron & Shell station on 99 in Tipton

There's 2 cell towers, Cingular Wireless, near Love's Travel Stop outside of Tulare and one between Tulare and Tipton.

American Towers almost in Tipton.

And another Cingular Wireless just south of Tipton.

[LadyBlue]

I've done a 100 mile radius from Pixley Ca, which would encompass these towns:

Tulare, Tipton, Pixley, Earlimart, Delano, McFarland, Calico, Saco, Oil Junction and Bakersfield all on 99
www.freemaptools.com/radius-around-point.htm

A cell ping will be within a 100 mile radius.