The following is a press release issued by the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office:
On 01-27-2025 at approximately 8:30 P.M., Deputies with the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the area of the 42000 block of Road 409 in Mendocino, CA regarding a missing person. Deputies arrived and learned that 59-year-old Linda Doar had been mushroom hunting on Jackson Demonstration State Forest lands with multiple friends. At around 5:00 P.M., Linda had wandered away from her friends and they became concerned after she had failed to emerge from the now dark and densely wooded area.
Sheriff’s Office Deputies immediately conducted a hasty search of the area where Linda was last seen and she was not located. Deputies returned to the area later in the evening and conducted a second search and were still not able to locate Linda.
Sheriff’s Office Deputies summoned assistance from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team and planned a first-light search for the morning of Tuesday 01-28-2025.
On 01-28-2025 at around 7:00 A.M., Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrived in the area and began searching for Linda. As Search and Rescue volunteer personnel arrived, Linda had walked out of the woods and she was found near the Mendocino Volunteer Fire Station on Road 409. Lind had suffered a minor injury and she was treated and released by Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Paramedics.
