This afternoon, Wednesday, July 28, Yavapai County Search and Rescue personnel located the body of a young female where the Verde River meets the wash where teenager Faith Moore was last seen, according to a press release issued at 4:26 p.m.
No official identification has been made at this point and rescuers are still working to secure the scene, however officials believe they may have located the teenager.
Officials do caution that they have not yet positively identified the body as young Faith Moore, but will provide further details as they are available.
Crews from the Verde Valley Fire, Cottonwood Fire and Police departments, as well as Yavapai County Sheriffs Office deputies, Copper Canyon Fire, the Sedona Fire Department, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and hundreds of volunteers from the community, have been actively searching the area by ground and air. The map above shows the GPS tracking on search teams.
For more information about the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, visit www.ycsoaz.gov.
At 9:40 p.m. Saturday, July 24, crews from the Verde Valley Fire, Cottonwood Fire and Police departments were dispatched to reports of a vehicle that was stuck in a wash, Verde Valley Fire Chief Daniel Johnson said Sunday, July 25.
The 16-year-old driver called 911 saying she was stranded in her car and that the water was up to her knees. When authorities arrived at the intersection of Camino Real and Arrowhead Lane where the incident reportedly took place, they did not find a vehicle. With flashlights, they searched the nearby wash in the dark and were able to locate the blue sedan. During the rescue attempt, the driver was swept out of her vehicle by the water and washed downstream.
“They did see the silhouette of an individual in the vehicle when they located it, and they were working to get closer to that vehicle to try to make a rescue,” Johnson said. “By the time they were able to get into a position to try to assess the vehicle, they looked in the vehicle, the door was open and she was no longer in the vehicle.”
