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Washington Family Of Four Missing, Police And Terrified Relatives Seek Public’s Help To Bring Them Home

By Patricia Ramirez
Published on: 19:23 PST, Nov 16, 2016

A family of four from Montesano, Washington has inexplicably gone missing this week, and police are asking for the public’s help in locating them. The couple, Jason and Melissa McAlister, and two of their four children vanished, seemingly without a trace, sometime Tuesday. The family of four was reported missing on Tuesday evening; that’s when someone made a call to 911.

As KATU 2 reports, the caller who reported the Washington family of four, both parents and their eight-month-old and two-year-old children missing told the dispatcher that he had noticed that the family’s vehicle wasn’t parked at their house when he returned home from work Tuesday evening. Apparently, the McAlister family live at the man’s home. That vehicle has been described as a gold 2008 Chevy Uplander SUV.

The caller reportedly became even more concerned about the Washington family of four when he realized that the other two McAlister children, five and seven-year-old girls, had to be taken to the school bus garage because nobody had been waiting for them at their bus stop after school. That’s when he decided to notify the authorities.

According to the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office, the rural Washington parents had reportedly told their roommate/landlord, the 911 caller, that they planned to take a drive with their two youngest children on Tuesday. Reportedly, they did not tell him where they planned on driving. The biggest concern that investigators currently have, reports KIRO 7, is that the Washington family of four may have broken down in their vehicle, or maybe gotten into an accident.

Over the last couple of days, the Weather Channel reports that the weather in the vicinity has been wet and dipped below 40 degrees overnight. That trend of wet, cold weather is expected to continue for the next several days and could pose a serious problem if the Washington family of four is stranded or worse.

According to the authorities, they have gotten information that indicates that the Washington family frequents the Humptulips area and occasionally a local site known as “Steel Bridge,” which is located in neighboring Mason County. However, despite this information, investigators have been unable to locate the missing couple and their two young children.

Vicky Highland, who is the mother of Melissa McAlister, says she is “terrified.” Viona McCleod, Vicky’s sister, is helping to care for the older McAlister children, who she’s described as “like her granddaughters.” She told the local media that since the Washington family of four went missing, their oldest daughters are scared, confused, and missing their parents and siblings.

“They’re scared. We’ve tried to tell them that Mom and Dad probably got lost and are going to be found… but they know what’s going on.”

Local sheriff’s deputies from both Mason and Grays Harbor counties worked throughout Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, checking out the Washington family’s favorite known haunts, but came back empty handed. Investigators were looking for any sign of the young family, including their gold SUV, but found nothing that would help lead them to the missing family of four.

Sheriff’s department spokesmen stated that deputies had plans to continue their search for the missing Washington family throughout the day Wednesday in an attempt to bring them home and reunite them with their school-aged daughters. Unfortunately, by 11:00 p.m. Wednesday night, searchers had still uncovered no sign if the missing family or their vehicle.

It is unknown if the McAlister’s may have a cell phone that could help law enforcement locate them or possibly narrow down their location.

At this time, police don’t believe to fear any form of foul play in the disappearance of the four Washington family members, but they are asking for the public’s help locating them.

Anyone with any information regarding the location of the missing Washington family of four is asked to call the Grays Harbor Communications center at (360) 533-8765 to help bring the McAlister’s home safe.

[Featured Image by Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office]

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