Missing woman found dead
Remains of Tatiana Dugger of Oroville ID’d through DNA test
WEED >> The missing Oroville woman, Tatiana Dugger, 19, has been found dead in Siskiyou County, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office announced late Friday afternoon. According to the BCSO in the past week, the body of a deceased woman was located in Siskiyou County.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, BCSO and the Oakland Police Department worked together to identify the deceased woman using the BCSO ANDE Rapid DNA machine. On Friday morning, BCSO identified the deceased female as Dugger. BCSO said that Oakland police and Siskiyou deputies will continue their investigation into her death.
Dugger had been missing since Jan. 9, when her family contacted the Oakland Police Department and completed a missing person report.
Four days later, the Oakland Police Department requested the Butte County Sheriff ’s Office assume jurisdiction of the missing person investigation since her family was from Butte County.
During the investigation, detectives say records indicated that her last known location was in Oakland and had learned that she had just recently moved from Butte County to Los Angeles.
Friends and family in Oroville gathered March 27 at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium, handing out flyers and fundraising for a reward for information.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that a hiker reported fi nding a deceased woman around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, March 28.
T he remains were found on U.S. Forest Service land near Highway 97 and Juniper Terrace, about 8 miles northeast of Weed in Siskiyou County.
According to the post, the body was in a remote area off the roadway and appeared to have been there for “an extended period of time.”
An autopsy was performed Thursday and Butte County detectives joined the Siskiyou County Major Crimes Unit at the autopsy, according to the post. BCSO then used its DNA testing to confirm that the woman was Dugger.
BSCO is asking and is asking anyone who may have information about Duggar’s disappearance or death to contact BCSO 538-7671 or 538-7322, the Oakland Police Department’s Special Victims Unit/Missing Persons Unit at 1- 510-238- 3641 or the Siskiyou County Sheriff ’s Office at 1-530-841-2900.
Just before the November elections I planted 46 garlic cloves. I am thrilled to report all are going strong. Garlic wards off evil. You’re welcome.
So, I took a hiatus from my usual intense news watching and reading for a while only to return in time for warnings of more shortages of TP and other essential items; cargo ships stuck in the Suez Canal; Georgia passing voter (suppression) laws; and, mass shootings.
I’m not really worried about another TP shortage. While I didn’t horde, I did get into the habit of grabbing a package of TP whenever I went grocery shopping. This has left us with an abundance of bathroom tissue and my daughter with nightmares.
“Seriously mom, I have this reoccurring dream that it’s March 2043 and I wake up in the morning, go to into the bathroom and open the last package of toilet paper you bought in 2020.”
The most interesting thing about the cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal other than the mind-bending logistics was the pervasive conspiracy theory promoted by QAnon that the ship had links to human trafficking and Hillary Clinton. Say whaaat?
Yup. The conspiracy theory went like this: The ship, called the Ever Given, is owned by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine and carries the radio call sign H3RC. Clinton’s Secret Service code name is Evergreen, and her initials are HRC ergo the nearly quarter-mile long vessel was really being used as a cover for human and sex trafficking. Yeah, you gotta really want it to get there. Sigh.
From the Suez Conspiracy let’s head on down to the deep south where, in the Peach State, a new sweeping voter rights (suppression) law includes, among other outrageous things, making it a crime (misdemeanor) for “any person” to give or offer “food and drink,” to any voter within a polling place, within 150 feet of the building housing a polling place, or “within 25 feet of any voter standing in line to vote at any polling place.”
In a state where 83.4-percent of the population selfidentifies as “Christian,” a state in which citizens stood in line for upwards of five hours to cast their votes in November, other folks cannot, next time around, provide them with water and snacks?
Yup. That’s right. Seems “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink,” Matthew 25:35, is void in Christian state of Georgia.
And while the nation suffered two mass shootings last month, the FBI conducted 4.7-million-gun purchase background checks in March, up 36-percent from February. And, according to the National Shooting Sports Federation, the firearms industry trade group that compares FBI background check numbers with actual sales data, 2 million of those checks were for new gun purchases. NSSF data shows last month’s sales were surpassed only by the estimated 2.3 million guns sold in March 2020, when the spread of COVID-19 set Americans to hording to guns and ammunition in addition to TP and bleach wipes.
It seems that Americans use the “any excuse will do” — pandemics, elections, the phase of the moon, etc. — to arm themselves to the teeth. And the rallying cry is always, always, always , “THEY are coming to take our guns!”
No. No. No, THEY are not. And honestly every time I hear someone say that my idiot detector registers in the red. Look, I’m a gun owner and a firm proponent of the Second Amendment along with the 26 other Amendments. So, if you want to defend the Second Amendment please do so. I’m good with that so long as you also defend with equal fervor every other Amendment or, at the very least, know what they say for pity’s sake.
If you do feel you need to own a gun for hunting or self-protection, by all means, get one. But if you need an assault rifle to hunt, you should really consider taking up a new hobby like knitting. Seriously what self-respecting hunter needs an AR-15 or AK-47 to hunt quail? Not a one. And if you need one to protect yourself from your neighbors, may I suggest, you know, moving?
I don’t get why imposing restrictions on assault weapons and requiring registration for firearms in general drives people to spasmodic fits of panicked fervor.
You never hear people get up in arms (pardon the pun) about how bans on land mines or surface-to-air missiles are on an infringement the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. So please explain to me how assault rifles, specifically designed as weapons of war to kill enemy combatants, are any different. You can’t. Not with any semblance of logic or intelligence.
Then there are cars. Cars, like guns, are potentially deadly and we have to register them and be licensed to drive them. Not once in the 61 years I’ve been on the planet have I ever witnessed anyone who, upon opening their car registration or driver’s license renewal notices, scream “They’re coming to take our cars! We’re all going to have to walk!”
And, lastly, if the THEY you’re worried about is the government and you believe you need to own a gun to protect yourself from the THEM all I can say is this: You don’t know how M1 Abrams tanks or F-22 Raptor fighter jets or B-2 Spirit bombers work.
And so, as we continue to go ‘round and ‘round about this, 70 US citizens have been killed in mass shootings the first quarter of this year.
Looks like I’m going to have to plant a whole lot more garlic.