Oregon Woman Vanishes After Running Out Of Gas In Rural Area Despite Knowing Family Was On Their Way

An Oregon female vanished Saturday aft accepting a thrust from a alien erstwhile her car ran retired of gas, and now her family is pleading for thief to find her.

"Something is not adding up," Amber Brecht, nan woman’s stepmother, told KATU. "We recognize thing is incorrect here. Something mightiness person happened that she doesn't want to show america about, which is fine, absolutely. We don't request to cognize what's happened. We conscionable want to cognize that she is safe and alive."

Maria Linda Jade Kilmer, 28, was past seen connected Highway 22 adjacent milepost 15, eastbound of Salem, according to Oregon State Police. Investigators opportunity Kilmer had been walking from Lyons to Salem pinch a passenger, stopping adjacent Stayton erstwhile they ran retired of fuel astir 9 p.m. Kilmer called her stepmother and sister for thief and shared her location connected her telephone truthful they could find her, her mother, Carmen Bitzer of Washington, told Oregon Live. But erstwhile they arrived, Kilmer was gone, leaving nan rider alone.

The passenger, whom Kilmer’s family says authorities person asked them not to identify, told them Kilmer near pinch a personification passing by who stopped to connection help.

Her sister added that Kilmer near down her phone, wallet, keys, glasses and medications – items her family says she would ne'er usually abandon.

“It doesn’t make immoderate sense,” her sister Jasmine Humeland told Oregon Live Thursday. “My sister’s not nan benignant of personification to conscionable time off personification connected nan broadside of nan road, and I don’t deliberation she would person conscionable gotten into a stranger’s car.”

Adding to nan confusion, Brecht said she has received a bid of matter messages from chartless numbers claiming to beryllium Kilmer, but nan messages do not sound for illustration her daughter.

Kilmer is described arsenic 5-feet 8-inches tall, weighing astir 180 pounds, pinch acheronian hair, bluish eyes and a piercing successful nan halfway of her little lip. Family members opportunity she is often dressed successful achromatic and is known to walk clip passim nan Willamette Valley, including Salem and Portland.

"We're not looking to blasted anybody aliases anything," Brecht told KATU. "We conscionable would for illustration to perceive from our girl and make judge that she's OK."

Anyone pinch accusation connected Kilmer’s whereabouts is urged to telephone 911 aliases interaction Oregon State Police.