Article – Couple missing for 2 weeks found in California wilderness

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WARNER SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — A couple missing for two weeks were found Sunday in a remote part of San Diego County with the elderly husband dead and his wife severely dehydrated, after surviving on just rain water and some food, authorities said.

Cecil Knutson, 79, Dianna Bedwell, 68, were found near a Boy Scouts camp on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation near Warner Springs, sheriff’s Lt. Ken Nelson said.

Knutson’s body was near a white car and Bedwell was inside the vehicle, he said.

 

That last sentence is curious. So the white car was not the same one that the woman was in? Did the woman stay with the vehicle and the husband went off for help and found another car?

Perhaps staying with the vehicle isn’t so great an option when the clock is ticking on your need for insulin. Bad story all around. Be interesting to follow this and get more details.

2 thoughts on “Article – Couple missing for 2 weeks found in California wilderness”

  1. There’s a bit more information here: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/26/couple-missing-for-2-weeks-found-in-california-wilderness/

    I no longer take “shortcuts” like this for just this reason. When I was young I could get myself out of trouble, but that’s not a given at my age & condition. What I don’t understand is that they apparently made no effort to make themselves visible. I have a kit in the car with a space blanket, candle, matches, 1st aid, etc. And being diabetic myself, I rarely go anywhere without proper food & water in the car.

    To fail to plan is to plan to fail.

  2. Also what is interesting is the man that died was a former Marine. I would have thought some of his training would have helped them in this situation. Regardless, a sad outcome.

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