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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A young pistillate from Georgia has been missing for implicit 2 weeks present aft going connected a solo camping escapade successful the Fresno County mountains, but arsenic a worldwide archery medalist, and an avid quality person with "a bosom of gold," her parents and the sheriff's bureau person precocious hopes for her harmless return.
April 21 was an important time for the Slaton family; Tiffany and her parents were moving a nationalist archery tourney successful Florida. However, aft the tournament, her parents discovered she had missed the league telephone with 1 of her students. They texted her, but she didn't reply - that's erstwhile they contacted the constabulary and reported her missing.
"That's thing that's dissimilar our daughter; she ever responds to america astatine slightest erstwhile oregon twice, adjacent successful 1 day," her father, Bobby Slaton, said.
Tiffany's parents said they had past spoken to her the time prior, April 20.
"She fundamentally said to maine that this was a bucket database thing, and 'I can't walk up connected it due to the fact that aft I decorativeness this trip, I'll beryllium going to aesculapian school, and I astir apt won't get a accidental to bash this again,'" her begetter said of the coversation.
He explained that Tiffany had been moving arsenic a dialysis tech successful Oregon, but aft her declaration was over, she took the accidental to fulfill portion of her bucket database earlier becoming an anesthesiologist and joining Mercy Ships. That bucket database brought her to California.
She bought an electrical motorcycle and took up enactment successful a workaway program, which was thing her parents said she's ever wanted to do.
"My girl loves caller people. She doesn't cognize a stranger, truthful it was a cleanable accidental for her to bash that due to the fact that she was successful California, which is besides 1 of the things that was connected her bucket list, to question and spot each 50 of the United States, and California had not been checked disconnected yet."
While she was astatine the workaway, her begetter said she decided that different signifier of her bucket database was to sojourn the blistery springs she had learned astir - the Mono Hot Springs, astir 40 miles from the country wherever she was past reported seen.
On Monday, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Tiffany had been spotted successful the Shaver Lake country connected April 24. Further up the road, astir halfway betwixt Shaver and Huntington Lakes, witnesses reported seeing her structure (which deputies judge is inactive with her).
Deputies besides accidental they person had galore witnesses from the Huntington Lake and China Peak areas who person not lone seen Tiffany but besides person spoken to her.
"It's not similar they drove by and they were like, 'oh, that looks similar the pistillate successful the picture,'" Detective Anthony Puente said. "She shares her communicative of what she's doing. Without adjacent knowing her, the friendliness jumps retired to maine that Mr. and Mrs. Slaton speech about, due to the fact that those are the stories that we're hearing."
While hunt and rescue are inactive canvassing with helicopters, horseback, and adjacent snowmobiles, deputies accidental they person successfully narrowed down the hunt country from the little fractional of Shaver up toward Huntington. While the hunt country is ample and has constricted compartment service, Tiffany's parents picture her arsenic prepared.
"She's an athlete. In archery, she's a metallic medalist, a satellite champion," her begetter said. "She knows however to travel, and she knows however to internationally travel... It is not antithetic for her to question alone."
What is antithetic is that she has not been checking in. Her parents accidental she called each clip she could, sometimes 2 to 3 times a day, portion she was distant connected these trips.
"We are a tight-knit family. This is arsenic adjacent to an implicit nightmare that I could really enactment together," her begetter said. "As soon arsenic they archer america that it is beneficial for america to travel to California, we volition decidedly beryllium connected a flight."
In the meantime, the sheriff's bureau is asking anyone with accusation to travel forward, nary substance however small.
"It could beryllium a wrapper to a candy bar, immoderate of those types of things that we request to look person into to amusement that determination mightiness person been enactment precocious successful that area," Tony Botti with the Fresno County Sheriff's Office said.
Tiffany is 27 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 125 pounds, with brownish eyes and achromatic hair. She was past seen with a greenish and grey tent, an electrical bicycle, and a reddish bicycle trailer. Anyone with accusation astir her whereabouts is asked to instantly interaction the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office astatine 559-600-3111 utilizing notation lawsuit fig 25-4458.
