Missing for more than a week, Tanya Rider was found 20 feet down a roadside ravine in a Seattle suburb after the signal from her cellphone led investigators to her. Her husband was frustrated by the futility he faced dealing with local authorities, but in the end the police traced a cellphone bleep and located her.

“Twenty feet down a roadside ravine, still strapped into the front seat of her Honda Element, Ms. Rider, 33, responded faintly when rescuers called her name through the blackberry bushes that had helped conceal her since her car ran off the road near the Seattle suburb of Renton on Sept. 19. Her kidneys were failing from dehydration and a buildup of toxins caused by muscle damage. Her clavicle and ribs were broken, her shoulder dislocated, her left leg severely hurt.”

“It was the signal from her cellphone that finally led investigators to Ms. Rider on Thursday, after what her husband of eight years, Tom, said Friday were days of futile efforts to have her disappearance investigated as a missing person case.”
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