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| Graham, Ember Skye 7/1/2015; REDDING, California | |
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| Begood | Sep 4 2015, 12:11 PM Post #1 |
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UPDATED: Mother holds out hope for missing baby Ember Jenny Espino 10:07 PM, Jul 22, 2015 3:23 PM, Jul 25, 2015 local news | homepage showcase | tablet showcase Autoplay: JENNY ESPINO REDDING, California - Jamie Lee Graham, the mother of a missing 6-month-old girl whose high-profile search was momentarily eclipsed when the baby's father went on the run and was killed by law enforcement officers, says she won’t rest until she knows where her daughter is — whether it’s underground in the Happy Valley area or in someone’s home across the country. Graham, 19, broke her silence of more than two weeks to give the Record Searchlight an interview to bring the focus back on baby Ember Skye Graham and respond to a flurry of rumors that won’t let up on social media. She spoke at length of her world being tossed into chaos and turmoil, the loss of her husband, Matthew Ryan Graham, and her worst fears being realized when detectives showed her Ember’s pacifier. “It was in her mouth in the camera at the store. I didn’t want to believe that they (had found) it. I was hoping that they found something else,” she said. “When I saw it (on video), I knew that that’s what they were going to show me.” The pacifier had been in the baby’s mouth the night before she was reported missing, July 1 video surveillance from the Happy Stop Market showed. Searchers found the pacifier July 10 on a road in the Ono area. Hope is running thin. The search for the baby remains concentrated around remote fields and tall grasses, where Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has said an infant needing to be fed and cared for — and in Ember’s case, provided medication twice a day for seizures — could not survive alone for days. Graham said her family only is responding to what detectives have shared about the investigation. Yet she still clings to the possibility her daughter is alive, and she is counting on the sheriff’s office to keep working the case. The sheriff has called the baby’s kidnapping improbable and expressed doubt the baby is alive. Accompanying Graham in her sit-down interview with the paper Wednesday were her father, Tom Tomlin, and Trudy Nickens, the executive director of Nor Cal Alliance for the Missing, a local missing person’s advocacy group. Graham, who stood steadfast by Matthew Graham when he was named a person of interest in Ember’s mysterious disappearance from her playpen, as he had reported it to authorities on July 2, was more reserved about her support for her now-dead husband. Matthew Graham was killed July 13 in a shootout with law enforcement officers in a normally quiet residential area in Dunsmuir. The shooting investigation is being handled by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, which is being assisted by several other agencies. She said he held the answers into their daughter’s disappearance and those answers died with him. “He’s the one who would be able to help in this situation and he’s not here. And I’m disappointed in that. I’m disappointed that he isn’t here to answers our questions,” she said. “I wish there was a letter. I wish there was something he left behind. Anything. But there was nothing.” Last Saturday, Matthew Graham’s family held a memorial service for him. Asked if she had attended the service, Jamie Graham said she did not. She had to go search for her daughter, she said, adding that she thought Matthew would have wanted it that way. On social media, criticism has been harsh, unfair and full of speculation, she said. “Everybody wants answers, but we don’t have answers,” she said. “All we know is what you guys know.” Despite the fact that her husband was a free man after his release July 8 from Shasta County Jail, where he was held for a violating his probation on unrelated cases, she said the two had little time to talk, and he shared nothing with her about Ember. That Saturday, July 11, when detectives asked Graham to identify the pacifier, ended for her in a hospital with an anxiety attack. “I had a moment and I needed help,” she said, wanting to make clear that the Graham and Tomlin families were not fighting. “Then everything had happened with Matthew being on the run.” She said she did not hear from Matthew again after he fled the area. The next anyone knew about Matthew Graham was when he was spotted at a gas station in Shasta Lake the following day. Jamie Graham described her husband’s shootout with law enforcement early Monday, July 13, in Dunsmuir as “doomsday.” “I was finally processing Ember being gone … and all of a sudden he’s gone too,” she said. “I’ve been flipping my phone waiting for a text message from him. “Part of me is still waiting for him to walk through the doors, with Ember in his arms. … She’s the only reason I even get out of bed in the morning, because she’s my only hope right now.” Tom Tomlin, who with his wife, Deborah, have been on daily searches for their granddaughter, held his daughter Jamie Graham’s hand as she spoke and gently patted her when she broke down. “I know how distraught and upset I am about it and I can’t even imagine what she is going through,” he said. He chided critics for playing detective on social media. “For the people who are just sitting on the computer, how about you come out here? How about you go trampling through the star-thistle and the poison oak all day long. Because you don’t know what that feels like,” Jamie Graham said. “All you’re doing is speculating, and that’s not getting us anywhere.” Jamie Graham’s family is planning a search for baby Ember on Saturday and is asking for the public’s participation. Participants are asked to register at the Cloverdale trailhead, in the area of Cloverdale and Clear Creek roads by presenting identification and signing a confidentiality agreement. The search will be between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The family also asks the public to tie pink ribbons on trees, posts or fences as a show of support for baby Ember and the search efforts. A reward up to $10,000 has been put up for information about Ember Graham’s disappearance. It is through Secret Witness of Shasta County. Anyone with information can share it anonymously with Secret Witness by calling 243-2319 or going to www.scsecretwitness.com. Anyone with information about Ember Graham is asked to call the sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit at 245-6135 or Sheriff’s Records at 245-6025. Information can also be sent to the Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit email address: mcu@co.shasta.ca.us. |
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