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Investigators Looking for Missing 17-Year-Old from Salem

Ezra Mayhugh was last seen on October 15, 2021

(SALEM, Ore.) - Detectives with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office are seeking community tips to help locate 17-year old Ezra Mayhugh.

The young man is from the Salem area, and Detectives have learned Mayhugh may be the victim of an online catfishing scheme.

MISSING CHILD ALERT: Marley Kay Wnorowski is Missing and is Believed to be in Danger

Contact 911 or local law enforcement if you believe you see her.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS), Child Welfare Division, asks the public to help find 16-year old Marley Kay Wnorowski, a child in foster care who went missing from Pendleton, Oregon on Oct. 30. Marley is believed to possibly be in danger.

She may be in the company of Kyle Teeter, a 25-year-old male.

UPDATE - FOUND! Oregon Mother and 2 Young Daughters Reported Missing

UPDATE: The three were found alive and safe.

(SAMS VALLEY, Ore.) - The search for a missing woman and her two children has ended. Tanda Christiansen, 28, and her daughters, ages 6 and 7, were found Thursday afternoon approximately two miles from their home.

On Thursday, August 9, 2018, at 1:06 p.m., a resident in the 8400-block of Ramsey Road called dispatch to report finding the three missing subjects on his property. They were hiding in a brushy area along Sams Creek.

UPDATED: FBI and Warm Springs Police Ask Public`s Help in Locating Missing & Possibly Endangered 11-year-old

Kaitlyn Stofiel has been located.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Warm Springs Police Department located 11-year-old Kaitlyn Stofiel and her father, Thomas Stofiel, a few minutes after 10 this morning. An FBI agent and a Warm Springs detective were driving separately down Highway 26 approximately 25 miles west of the city of Warm Springs when they saw the Stofiels hitchhiking.

Warm Springs transported both back to town. Both Kaitlyn and her father were wet, cold and hungry but otherwise appeared physically uninjured.

Missing Aurora Man Found Dead by Natural Causes

The man's son allegedly continued to receive and spend his father's money for about a year after he died.

(SALEM, Ore.) - February 16th, Detectives with the Marion County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant near Aurora.

During the search, detectives found the deceased body of Henry Conley Fitchett in a freezer, at the same home he had shared with his son for the last 14 years.

Sheriff`s Office Seeks Tips in Search for Missing Endangered Merrilee Cooley

Leave tips at 503-723-4949, reference CCSO Case # 16-35366

(CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore.) - The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is seeking tips as it looks for a missing endangered adult woman who disappeared on or shortly after Dec. 26.

68-year old Merrilee Bonnie Cooley was last seen on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. Her family reported her missing under suspicious circumstances on Wednesday, Dec. 28.

UPDATE: Two Missing Hunters in Douglas County: FOUND

UPDATE: The two missing hunters have been found. Their vehicle had gotten stuck and they were just able to get free. They are safe and headed home.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Eugene Police are seeking the public's help to find two Eugene men who went on a hunting trip in Douglas County and have not returned. They left yesterday, Tuesday, November 15, at 5:30 a.m. and were due back at 2 or 3 p.m. yesterday. The pair were planning to hunt between Elkton and Loon Lake.

They did not return, and their families have been unable to get a hold of them.

Missing Woman Anna Schmidt Found Deceased Near Tooth Rock on Friday

Officials say it was an Accidental Death

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Schmidt was reported missing on Wednesday October 19 to Portland Police but was last seen by her roommate on Sunday October 16. Schmidt is a hiker and her vehicle was located on October 20 in the Columbia River Gorge near Bonneville Dam.

There were no signs of foul play. Investigators were concerned that she may have gotten lost or injured hiking in the Gorge. The Medical Examiner has determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma, and the manner of death was accidental.

Search and Rescue Looking for Missing Mushroom Picker

The man has reportedly been missing since Monday morning.

(LEBANON, Ore.) - Linn County Sheriff Bruce Riley reports receiving a call today and 9:50 a.m., of a missing mushroom picker in the area of Rocky Top near Green Peter Reservoir.

The missing mushroom picker, 58-year old Oliver Keith Mercer from Lebanon, has been missing since yesterday at 9:00 am. Linn County Search and Rescue immediately sent a hasty team to the area to beginning searching.

Missing Person: 30-Year-Old Woman from Portland

She was last seen about 11:00 p.m. Saturday, September 24.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - The Portland Police Bureau's Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public's help to locate a 30-year-old woman reported missing from Southeast Portland.

30-year-old Amber Dawn Pierini is described as 5'2" tall, 100 pounds, dyed-reddish hair, blue eyes, last seen wearing a red tank top, gray sweater and blue jeans.