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MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office is offering a $1,000 reward for accusation regarding the disappearance of Crystal Blackburn and Barbara Barnet.
However, determination is simply a 3rd missing woman: Laura Coventry.
The Sheriff’s Office does not judge Laura is successful danger.
“The reporting enactment reported that she was past seen connected July 3,” said Mariposa Sheriff Jeremy Briese.
Laura was reported missing connected Tuesday, July 9. The Sheriff’s Office located her and her canine Lexi via surveillance footage astatine the Foodmaxx successful Fresno County that aforesaid day.
“And past we person immoderate follow-up video of her returning, I believe, yesterday evening,” Briese said.
Through investigation, they judge she is headed to Southern California. However, Laura volition beryllium considered a missing idiosyncratic until instrumentality enforcement tin interaction her successful person.
Wednesday, Sheriff Briese announced that some Barbara and Crystal's cases are present considered a decease investigation.
Crystal went missing connected Dec. 29, 2023, successful the country of Mountain Bullion.
“Was reported arsenic leaving her home, but besides determination but besides determination was immoderate known cause maltreatment and association,” Briese said.
Barbara was past seen connected video connected March 22 astatine the Smoke Shop 2.
She was known to question connected ft oregon hitchhike on the Highway 49 corridor.
“We bash cognize that determination was some known relation with illicit drugs,” Briese said.
Briese says these 2 cases are not related.
“It is frustrating due to the fact that it's somebody's loved 1 and I would emotion to beryllium proven incorrect and we find them some blessed and safe.”
Those who mightiness person immoderate accusation regarding these women's disappearance of whereabouts are asked to interaction the sheriff's bureau astatine 209-966-3615.
