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Missing Couple Found Deceased

missing ashley jeriahSedona AZ (September 24, 2015) – The search for two missing persons, Ashley Darby, 23, and Jeriah Hildwine, 35, of Flagstaff, Arizona, came to a close the afternoon of September 23 after the couple was found deceased in a wooded area approximately a third mile from the parking lot of the Abineau Bear Jaw Trailhead, Flagstaff. Both appeared to have died from gunshot wounds several days prior.

Ashley Darby was reported missing by her father on September 3. Jeriah Hildwine was reported missing by his mother on September 8. The couple were reported to have been seen together at a lawyer’s office in Flagstaff, Arizona, on September 2, 2015.

Friends and family were interviewed and Missing Person bulletins issued to area law enforcement agencies and media outlets. Ashley and Jeriah, as well as their vehicles, were entered into the National Crime Information Center database as missing.

ashley jeriah 2On September 19, Forest Service Fire Prevention Personnel located Ashley Darby’s vehicle in the parking lot of the Abineau Bear Jaw Trailhead. Investigators found a note inside the vehicle indicating that the two intended to commit suicide.

Search and Rescue personnel searched the parking lot and surrounding area that afternoon, but were unable to locate either person or any further clues as to their whereabouts. Missing person fliers were circulated as detectives continued to seek information to help locate the two. Family members continued their own search in the Abineau Bear Jaw area on September 22.

On September 23, Detectives and Search and Rescue teams, including two dog teams, returned to the Abineau Bear Jaw area to continue search efforts. That day, the bodies of both Ashley and Jeriah were located in less than two hours of searching.

Further details are pending additional investigation and the Coconino County Medical Examiner review. Hildwine also had been the subject of a recent sexual assault investigation.

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4 Comments

  1. Tell me why at 23 anybody would blow her brains out for what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sick!!!!!!!!!!!! That part of the state seesto a lot of suicides and drug problems !!!!!!!!

  2. J. J. says:

    So sad. My first thought with any suicide or shooting is – was this person being treated for depression? Were they taking SSRI – type drugs?

    Just recently a suicidal man used his car to commit suicide on Hiway 89A. In doing so, he killed his dog and 3 innocent people. He was being treated for depression.

    Please look up the side-effects of SSRI drugs. ALL mass shooters have one thing in common – and IT IS NOT GUNS, but rather the side effects of the prescribed drugs.

    http://www.naturalnews.com/039752_mass_shootings_psychiatric_drugs_antidepressants.html

  3. An aunt went in hospital because of an antihistamine contraindication with a medicine she was taking. Because hospital saw she was in an excited state (due to the antihistamine and fear of needing an emergency visit) she was prescribed a Prozac kind of drug because of her “age” (a mere 63) doctor said later. People her “age” get dementia he said and need to be medicated.

    Because she journaled for most of her life, she began to recognize within two weeks a sudden suicide thought pattern in her daily writing. Working through what had changed, she stopped the new prescription and within days felt better.

    At her month later follow up visit, she explained her use of the prescription appeared to cause anxiety and depression, so doctor wrote on her chart that she had dementia. He sent her to hospital and because it was better facility than the first, she was given a clean bill of health, her heart medicine adjusted and told never to take over the counter medications. She never did for the rest of her life. She found a new doctor.

    She died at 92 of natural causes while gardening in her yard. In her journal those years before she had talked about shooting herself. My aunt was a nun.

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