Casualty NV - Ronnie and Beverly Barker missing with motorhome; Mar 2022

[Cabin Fever]

This is so sad. And I’ll bet it didn’t take too many mistakes to have this happen….

RB and BB were evidently driving from Albany OR to Tucson AZ. They were to be on the road for just 2 nights. They were driving an RV and towing a car. They were discovered in an area about as remote as you can get in the US. Their RV had become stuck in the mud in a wilderness area, and then the Kia soon after. Theye were spotted from a search plane. Unfortunately, RB had died in the meantime. She survived.

Missing Indiana couple found after man dies in Nevada desert

A single, desperate cry for help went through to family members too late to save a woman’s husband after the Indiana couple had been lost in Nevada’s high-desert wilderness for more than a week. It was a delayed text with GPS coordinates from Beverly Barker, 69, who survived the ordeal and was...

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[Calico Jeans]

This seems like an inordinate distance to drive an RV towing a car with only 2 nights and 3 days of driving. It’s 1380 miles. I wonder if they drove through Death Valley and got lost after that? That might explain the general location. They would then go to Las Vegas and take an easy road south to Tucson.
But they picked the wrong road going to Las Vegas? That’s a common route from Death Valley.

 

[Trippy]

It seems RB and BB's schedule has been revised with a bit more information. They stayed at a KOA in Shasta on March 26. They left on the 27th at noon (?).

And now we have a follow-up story with more details from family. They survived for over a week at their car (odd they didn't return to their RV, which was only 2 miles away, so they'd have more resources), until he died just a day before they were found.

Harrowing Search For Missing Couple in Nevada Ends With Husband Found Dead, Wife Surviving

After a week-long search for a missing couple merely found an empty RV in Nevada, the couple was located, but 72-year-old Ronnie Barker was already dead.

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Later: oh, I get it. She needed a walker, so even 2 miles would have been impossible. And he may have been obese.

 

[Twiglets]

Oooooooohhhh. A GoogleMaps wrong direction error. OMG.
I wonder how she's doing.