King County Search Dogs

March and April 2004

March 8, 2004
04-ES-004
Kent
0900 start for planned cadaver search. We responded with four cadaver teams, 6 personnel total. This was a search of an area with a possible buried subject from 1961. Sage, Coyote and Griz did a trained indication in the same general area. Boston did a trained indication approximately 25-ft east of the other indications. (36.5 hrs)

April 1, 2004
04-0670
Mercer Island, WA
2000 callout for missing 9 yo female. We responded with two trailing and three airscent teams, 9 personnel total. The initial callout was for a missing 9 yo female. Upon arrival at search base, we learned the subject had been kidnapped, there was a ransom demand and the search needed to be kept low-key. Our role was to do a hasty search in the immediate area of the subject's residence in the event she was injured and close-by. The perpetrator was followed after picking up the ransom. After a chase at speeds exceeding 100 mph, the perpetrator was stopped and the girl was located in fine shape. We were the only KCSARA unit called out at the request of MI PD. (32.5 hrs)

April 3, 2004
04-ES-011
Yelm, Thurston Cty
0800 start for planned evidence search in Thurston County. We responded with three cadaver teams, 5 personnel total. We were searching a specific location in a private campground for the remains of a person who went missing in 1996. Nothing was located during this search. (40 hrs)

April 4, 2004
04-0312
Auburn, WA
1300 start for planned water search along Green River. We responded with two water teams, four personnel total. This was a continuation of the February 13, 2004, search for a missing fisherman. Stacie Chandler and Sage were first in the boat. Sage started showing interest along one bank with overgrowth. The KCSO deputy and Chandler noted a shape under the water and it turned out to be the subject! (18.5 hrs)

April 10, 2004
04-0754
Burien
2115 callout for missing Alzheimer's subject in Burien. We responded with 11 personnel. The subject had walked away from his new residence for 3rd time in last week. After interviewing the caregiver and returning to base, Dog 2 was contacted by the caregiver and told that the subject had been located by the caregiver on a nearby arterial and returned to the residence. (26 hrs)

April 16, 2004
04-0807
Redmond
1700 callout for missing Alzheimer's subject in Redmond. We responded with four trailing and five airscent teams, 12 personnel total. The subject of the 4/10/04 search had been moved to this home and was already on the road. He was located by an ESAR team on the 16500 block of Woodinville-Duvall road about 35-ft off the road, conscious but requiring medical aid. The subject was 5.6 miles from the facility. SAR was not called out until 24 hours since he went missing. Hitchner had talked with a neighbor who reported seeing the subject on Avondale Road which lead to shifting the search area and ultimately locating him. (76.5 hrs)

April 28-29, 2004
04-0912
Black Diamond
1030 callout for missing 57 yo male in Green River, east of Black Diamond. We responded with two trailing teams, three airscent teams and 11 personnel total over the two day search. The subject was dropped off on 4/25 by his girlfriend at a bridge crossing the Green River. He did not return home. The trailing teams worked off the bridge to the west. The airscent teams covered the areas near the bank and into the woods. On the second day, KCSO and Rescue One divers started floating downriver and located the subject, deceased, river right about 1/4 mile down from the put-in point. The teams then spent the next few hours trying to locate a key to get the divers and the body out. (31.5 hrs)

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