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mahatmakanejeeves

(66,501 posts)
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:39 PM Jul 27

North Carolina woman found alive months after car found near Death Valley

North Carolina woman found alive months after car found near Death Valley

By Kerry Breen
July 25, 2025 / 2:05 PM EDT / CBS News

A missing North Carolina woman was found alive in Colorado more than eight months after her disappearance. … Kelsey Pittman's family last spoke to her in November 2024, the Inyo County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Inyo County is home to California's Death Valley National Park. Pittman was 33 at the time.

Pittman was last seen in St. George, Utah, on Dec. 2, 2024, according to her profile in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, or NAMUS.

On Feb. 5, 2025, deputies from the Inyo County Sheriff's Office and the National Park Service were called to a remote area of Death Valley after receiving a report of an abandoned car on private property, the sheriff's office said on social media. Death Valley is about 260 miles from St. George.

The area where the car was located is commonly used by campers during the winter months, the sheriff's office said. Officials confirmed the car, a 2009 Chevrolet HHR with North Carolina plates, was registered to Pittman.

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North Carolina woman found alive months after car found near Death Valley (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 27 OP
CBS investigative journalism is all clammed up bucolic_frolic Jul 27 #1
The article mentioned that NamUs was used. littlemissmartypants Jul 28 #2
thanks bucolic_frolic Jul 28 #4
There's even a map of her last known location... littlemissmartypants Jul 28 #3

bucolic_frolic

(52,146 posts)
1. CBS investigative journalism is all clammed up
Sun Jul 27, 2025, 08:43 PM
Jul 27

They barely ask the government any questions. The new normal.

littlemissmartypants

(29,260 posts)
2. The article mentioned that NamUs was used.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 05:49 AM
Jul 28
https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/missing-person-namus-mp144164

Go look at it for yourself. There are several pictures of her.

They also mentioned "respect" and "privacy" as reasons for the minimized reporting.

bucolic_frolic

(52,146 posts)
4. thanks
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 06:40 AM
Jul 28

I didn't realize there were standards to NamUs. I saw it in the article but didn't click on it.

Still seems the story and article just ends with no explanation. Resolution is found and privacy.

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