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SF family missing from Thanksgiving road trip
A San Francisco couple who took a road trip with their two young daughters to spend Thanksgiving in the Pacific Northwest did not return as expected Monday and is now considered missing. San Francisco police are asking the public's help in locating James and Kati Kim and their two daughters, Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. The family was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
"It is really unusual for them not to call,'' said Ryan Lee, a longtime friend who had brunch with the family Saturday in Portland. "I don't want to let myself think that they are hurt. Apparently, I was the last person who knows them to see them, which is freaky.''
The Kims told Lee that they planned to stop by a clothing boutique in Portland, then drive to Gold Beach on the southern Oregon coast. They told him they had a hotel reservation there for Saturday night, Lee said.
"That was the last I heard from them,'' he said.
It is not known whether the family showed up at the hotel.
James Kim, 35, a senior editor at CNET, lives with his wife and daughters in Noe Valley. The couple owns two small stores in San Francisco -- Doe, a clothing store on lower Haight Street, and the Church Street Apothecary in Noe Valley which sells baby goods and organic skincare potions.
The Kims were driving a 2005 silver Saab station wagon with a personalized California license plate "DOESF."
San Francisco police ask that anyone with information on the family's whereabouts contact Inspector Angela Martin of the Missing Persons Unit at 415-558-5508, or the operation center at 553-1071.
Official Missing Persons Report:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=37978
SF Chronicle article:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/01/SFFAMILY.TMP
ABC7 / Associated Press (with video):
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4813354
ADDED: Oregon State Police updates:
http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002
Update: As of 9 a.m. PST Friday, investigators said they were narrowing their search to Oregon's Highway 38 as the family's most probable route to their destination of Gold Beach. The Kims last spoke to an innkeeper there by phone about five hours before they planned to arrive.
LAST UPDATE: James Kim, the CNET editor who had been lost in the Oregon wilderness for the last 11 days, has sadly been found deceased. Kim's wife, Kati, and daughters, Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months), were rescued alive on Monday at the site of their stranded car. James had set on out foot on Saturday to seek help. Our thoughts are with James's family and friends. We offer our heartfelt condolences. More here.
There is a Paypal link on the family's website for contributions to the surviving family members: Link.
itsolivia, skip and boingboing_netSF family missing from Thanksgiving road trip
A San Francisco couple who took a road trip with their two young daughters to spend Thanksgiving in the Pacific Northwest did not return as expected Monday and is now considered missing. San Francisco police are asking the public's help in locating James and Kati Kim and their two daughters, Penelope, 4, and Sabine, 7 months. The family was last seen in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
"It is really unusual for them not to call,'' said Ryan Lee, a longtime friend who had brunch with the family Saturday in Portland. "I don't want to let myself think that they are hurt. Apparently, I was the last person who knows them to see them, which is freaky.''
The Kims told Lee that they planned to stop by a clothing boutique in Portland, then drive to Gold Beach on the southern Oregon coast. They told him they had a hotel reservation there for Saturday night, Lee said.
"That was the last I heard from them,'' he said.
It is not known whether the family showed up at the hotel.
James Kim, 35, a senior editor at CNET, lives with his wife and daughters in Noe Valley. The couple owns two small stores in San Francisco -- Doe, a clothing store on lower Haight Street, and the Church Street Apothecary in Noe Valley which sells baby goods and organic skincare potions.
The Kims were driving a 2005 silver Saab station wagon with a personalized California license plate "DOESF."
San Francisco police ask that anyone with information on the family's whereabouts contact Inspector Angela Martin of the Missing Persons Unit at 415-558-5508, or the operation center at 553-1071.
Official Missing Persons Report:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/police_index.asp?id=37978
SF Chronicle article:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/12/01/SFFAMILY.TMP
ABC7 / Associated Press (with video):
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=4813354
ADDED: Oregon State Police updates:
http://www.flashalert.net/news.html?id=1002
Update: As of 9 a.m. PST Friday, investigators said they were narrowing their search to Oregon's Highway 38 as the family's most probable route to their destination of Gold Beach. The Kims last spoke to an innkeeper there by phone about five hours before they planned to arrive.
LAST UPDATE: James Kim, the CNET editor who had been lost in the Oregon wilderness for the last 11 days, has sadly been found deceased. Kim's wife, Kati, and daughters, Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months), were rescued alive on Monday at the site of their stranded car. James had set on out foot on Saturday to seek help. Our thoughts are with James's family and friends. We offer our heartfelt condolences. More here.
There is a Paypal link on the family's website for contributions to the surviving family members: Link.
