By Seamus McGraw
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Eight miles in the scorching sun
Nor were the four-wheelers or the traveler the only people who had been in the remote desert around that time. Authorities have told Somes that around the time Fox disappeared, they also stumbled across a stolen car partially submerged in a desert pond, and while authorities have thus far found no reason to suspect foul play, that discovery raised Somes' suspicions. "Those guys got out of there somehow," he said. "Did they happen to come across Renee? Who knows?"
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By Sunday, the local authorities had mounted a search for Fox, and that too yielded some baffling evidence. Though they did recover the missing woman's car, and her pocketbook and other items, and found tracks that stretched some eight miles through the desert, they never found the water bottles supposedly given to her by the men in the four-wheeler, Somes noted. "She's been walking for eight miles at three o'clock in the afternoonshe's probably going to drink one and if she drinks one, she's probably not looking for a trash can, you know? But they never found the water bottles either."
During the course of the hunt for Fox, authorities brought in search dogs, and the dogs trailed Fox from the place where her pocketbook was recovered to an old mine shaft. It was not, Somes said, a direct trail.
"They followed her (scent) around eight miles from her car until they got her belongings and her purse, and then it kind of dead-ended," Somes said. "They don't have anything, there's no track, no scents, and then close to a mile down there's tracks directly to a mine shaft," Somes said. "That's when they brought in a mine crew to clear it and they said they didn't see anything in there."
For now, that's where the trail ends.
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