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Woman still missing

DAVID COLE/[email protected] | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 4 months AGO
by DAVID COLE/[email protected]
| August 5, 2015 9:00 PM

COEUR d'ALENE - It's now been two months since Jacque Grider went for a walk in Heyburn State Park and disappeared without a trace.

Benewah County Sheriff Dave Resser said people are still looking for the 69-year-old Bakersfield, Calif., woman with dementia, though there is no official organized search.

"There is still a fairly active search in the park" involving volunteers, Resser said Tuesday. "Marine deputies always cruise that shoreline."

A psychic detective working with the family to find Grider failed to provide any leads, he said.

Some of the search has been outside the park, he said.

J.T. Grider, Jacque Grider's husband, has been to homeless shelters in Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and Moscow to find his wife, the sheriff said. J.T. Grider couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

"We are actually thinking that she is not in or around the park," Resser said. "Was she picked up by a good Samaritan and taken somewhere? We just don't know."

A search outside the park is particularly difficult because Jacque Grider didn't have any identification or credit cards with her when she went missing. So she's not out there spending money and leaving a trail for the authorities to follow.

"Right now it's kind of a sit-and-wait kind of thing," Resser said.

Jacque and J.T. Grider have been spending several months each year the past two decades at their place in the park on Chatcolet Center Road.

Jacque Grider took daily hour-long walks in the park, sometimes with a friend, sometime by herself. On June 1 she was walking by herself.

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