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Missing teenage girls on hike
Sgt. Jim Walsh
of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department,
Hemet Station, contacted RMRU member Walt Walker
by telephone at 1935 hrs. on May 15, 1986. Sgt.
Walsh asked that RMRU be assembled to search for
two missing females, 13 and 18 years of age. The
two subjects were participants in a hiking group
from the Beverly Hills area that was staying at
the Idyllwild School of Music and Arts. The
group, along with two other groups were day
hiking from Humber Park to Saddle Junction, Skunk
Cabbage Meadow and Tahquitz Peak. The two
subjects were slow hikers and were transferred
from the Tahquitz Peak group to the Skunk Cabbage
group. That occurred at approximately noon at
Saddle Junction. That was the last time anybody
remembered seeing . the subjects. They were not
missed until the groups had returned to ISOMATA.
The RMRU paging system was activated and members
were on their way to Idyll-wild when the missing
pair were located. The paging system was then
used to abort the mission. Once again, the paging
Sys-tem that was purchased by funds supplied by
the Sustaining Members was put to very good use
twice in one evening.
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