MADISON EGNEW - 1 yo - Port Angeles (W of Everett) WA

Port Angeles WA ---- Washington State authorities say they're searching for a 21-year-old man and his
toddler daughter after finding their abandoned car stuck on a remote logging road.



Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Peregrin says Jared Egnew took 1-year-old Madison Egnew for a drive
Friday night to calm her down. Egnew's wife reported them missing when
they didn't return to the campground where they live.Deputies
searched all night for the car, and found it Saturday at around 11 a.m.
Search and rescue teams, including a Coast Guard helicopter crew, have been combing the area.
Peregrin says there are no indications there was any type of struggle.

The car in which a missing man drove off from
the Lyre River campground with his toddler daughter Friday morning was
found this morning, abandoned.
Searchers now are looking for signs of Jared T. Egnew, 21,
and his daughter, Madison E. Egnew, who is 1year and 10 months old,
said Ron Peregrin, Clallam County Undersheriff, at 11 a.m. today.
“When we find the car abandoned like that, we become worried,” Peregrin said.
“Now they’re exposed to the elements and that’s what really kicked our search into a higher gear.”
Deputies searched for the car all night since Egnew and his daughter were
reported missing at about 8:17 p.m. Friday, Peregrin said.
The car, a blue 1999 Taurus, was found at about 10 a.m. today stuck, but not
wrecked, on a remote logging road 10 or 15 miles from the campground,
about three miles south of state Highway 112 and some 25 miles west of Port Angeles.
Egnew left the Lyre River campground at about 11
a.m. Friday to take Madison, who was crying, for a drive to calm her down.
“There was no evidence that a fight had occurred,” Peregrin said.
“It did not appear that there was any kind of dispute. He
just took off with the baby because the baby was fussing he was going to
take her for a drive to calm her down.
“And he never came home.”
At about 3 p.m., the child’s mother, Kayla A. McComb, began calling
Egnew’s friends from the nearby home of relatives, unsuccessfully
seeking any news of him.
Her mother, Julie Batchelor, reported
Egnew and the child missing to the sheriff’s office at about 8:17 p.m.
After finding the car, deputies called in search and rescue crews, Peregrin said.
The Coast Guard began assisting the search Friday night,
with a helicopter crew combing the area around the campground.
The Civil Air Patrol is on standby alert, Peregrin said.
The couple were living in the campground, he said.
Egnew is described as a white male, about 6-feet-tall and weighing 244 pounds.
He has dark brown shaved or buzz-cut hair and a goatee.
He is wearing an AC/DC gray long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans.
He reportedly has glaucoma, wears contacts, and is ADHD, the sheriff’s office said in a
prepared statement.
The child has “dirty blond colored” shoulder-length hair, frequently
worn in a ponytail, and green/hazel eyes.
Her ears are pierced with colored stone stud earrings.
The child — who is 33 inches tall and weighs about 26 pounds — is wearing a
red long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, brown boots and red socks.
“There were no supplies for the baby taken and there might be a bag of
clothing in the car,” the sheriff’s office statement said.
“Egnew and the baby might be wearing different clothing.”
Although deputies have found no evidence of foul play, they are treating the
search area as a crime scene, Peregrin said.
Anyone with information is asked to phone 9-1-1.

The sun went down Saturday with no leads as to
the whereabouts of a 21-year-old man and his 22-month-old daughter who
were last seen at the Lyre River campground Friday.
Searchers combed the woods west of Port Angeles Friday night and Saturday looking
for signs of Jared T. Egnew, 21, and his toddler, Madison E. Egnew, who
were reported missing at 8:17 p.m. Friday, said Ron Peregrin, Clallam
County Undersheriff.
"We're going to search until it gets dark
and then start at first light tomorrow," Peregrin said at 9:15 p.m. Saturday.
A Coast Guard helicopter spotted Egnew's car, a blue
1999 Ford Taurus, at 10:10 a.m. Saturday.
Deputies said the car was high-centered on East Twin River Road but not wrecked about six
miles from the campground and about three miles south of state Highway 112.
"There was no one in it," Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict said.
Spare tires were on the car's rear wheels. It was locked.
"It appeared that there were tracks going off
towards some power lines, and apparently whoever was in the car was
going down the road."
A team of about 20 searchers combed the woods Saturday.
Sniffing dogs from the Grays Harbor County
Sheriff's Office were en route, Benedict said Saturday afternoon. The
bloodhounds were searching the site at 7:30 p.m., a 9-1-1 dispatcher said.
The search team includes Border Patrol agents, the Coast Guard and Lower Elwha Police.
"At this point, we believe that they're still out there in the woods," Benedict said at about 2 p.m.
Saturday. Benedict said he was concerned about the twosome
because they had been missing for more than 24 hours.
"And it got pretty cool last night," he said.
The National Weather Service called for a low of 52 degrees Saturday night.
Egnew reportedly drove away from the Lyre River campground with his daughter at about 11
a.m. Friday to take Madison, who was crying, for a drive to calm her down.
He had been staying at the campground with the child's mother, Kayla A. McComb.
"There was no evidence that a fight had occurred," Peregrin said.
"It did not appear that there was any kind of dispute. He just took off with the baby because the baby was
fussing he was going to take her for a drive to calm her down.
"Andhe never came home." At about 3 p.m., McComb began calling
Egnew's friends from the nearby home of relatives, unsuccessfully
seeking any news of him.
"We don't have any reason to believe that they got out," Benedict said.
"We don't have any reason to believe that there's any foul play at this time."
McComb's mother, Julie Batchelor, reported Egnew and the child missing to the sheriff's office.
"We suspect that since the car was disabled that Jared might have wandered
through the woods thinking that he was going to take a shortcut down to
Highway 112 and got lost," Benedict said.
"That would be my operating theory at this point."
Other than the footprints, there were no other signs of Jared Egnew or his daughter.
Egnew did not have a cell phone with him. McComb told deputies that Egnew was not
carrying cash or credit cards.
"It's possible that they hiked out to the road and got a ride somewhere," Benedict said.
"If they did, and if Jared hears about this, we'd sure like for him to get in
touch with us. "But at this point, once again, our operating
theory is that they are out in the woods west of Port Angeles."
Port Angeles police checked known places in the city where Egnew might have
gone, Benedict said.
Ron Cameron, Chief Criminal Deputy in the
Sheriff's Office, said the search would stop at nightfall and resume
this morning.
"I'm worried for the little girl," Cameron said.
Peregrin said the couple were living at the campground.
Egnew is described as a white male, about 6-feet-tall and 244 pounds. He has dark
brown shaved or buzz-cut hair and a goatee.
He was wearing an AC/DC gray long-sleeve shirt and blue jeans.
He reportedly has glaucoma, wears contacts, and is ADHD, the sheriff's office said in a
prepared statement.
The child has "dirty blond colored" shoulder-length hair frequently
worn in a ponytail, and green or hazel eyes.
Her ears are pierced with colored stone stud earrings.
The child -- who is 33 inches tall and weighs about 26 pounds -- is wearing
a red long-sleeve shirt, blue jeans, brown boots and red socks.
Anyone with information is asked to phone 9-1-1.

A 21-year-old father and his 22-month-old daughter were found safe
Sunday near the woods on Washington's Olympic Peninsula after spending
two nights lost in the forest and eating salmon berries to sustain
themselves.
Jared T. Egnew and Madison E. Egnew walked to Highway 112 on Sunday
morning and asked a passer-by for help, ending a massive search, the
Clallam County sheriff's office said.
Egnew and the girl left a campground Friday where the family lives so
he could calm the child, who was crying. Family members reported the
two missing hours later.
Deputies found the car stuck in a remote logging road about 25 miles
outside Port Angeles the next day. Search crews expanded their search
from the spot the car was found, but found no signs of the two by
Saturday night.
Crews were preparing to search again Sunday when Egnew walked out of
the woods.
The father and daughter needed no medical attention, authorities
said.
The sheriff's office said Egnew tried to take a shortcut through the
woods, but found the terrain more rugged than he anticipated.