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Found in a Hunter's Jacket: How She Survived Five Frozen Nights

Found in a Hunter's Jacket: How She Survived Five Frozen Nights

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Found in a Hunter's Jacket: How She Survived Five Frozen Nights

A dead man's blaze-orange hunting jacket kept a missing nurse alive for five nights in near-freezing Oregon - one boot gone, one name stitched above the pocket, and a single image that stopped a county surveyor cold. Why would a woman who did not hike or hunt, who checked eighteen hens every morning, end up forty yards east of a section corner monument in the Morrow Breaks with a stranger's jacket as her only protection?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a Brixton grocery lot to a frozen forest floor and trace the search that began after three nights alone; we recount the details that made neighbors uneasy, the search-and-rescue efforts hampered by snow, and the embroidered clue that became central to the case. How did a largely indoor life and a routine that never missed a call lead to five nights in the wilderness - and how did one garment alter the story?

Person: Jessica Carter
Location: Morrow Breaks, near Brixton, Oregon
Date: November 7-14, 2022
Status: Found alive after five nights
Search teams: Deployed November 10 with two dog teams

- Jessica Carter was 44 years old and worked overnight shifts at Kellum Valley Clinic three nights a week.
- Her phone last pinged a cell tower at 9:53 PM on November 7, less than two miles west of the grocery store.
- She was found sitting at the base of a fallen ponderosa with one boot on and the other missing; the temperature was 31 degrees.
- Neighbors reported 18 hens on her six-acre Aldermoor Road property; the coop feed was untouched and the water low by Tuesday evening.
- Search operations began November 10 with handlers Diane Mook and Curtis Prewitt; both dogs lost scent within forty yards of the timber edge.

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