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911 tapes about found woman to be reviewed

A sheriff has ordered a review of the 911 calls made about a woman who spent more than a week missing before search crews found her trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle.
A firefighter on Thursday pulls himself up from a steep ravine where Tanya Rider was found inside her crashed vehicle.
A firefighter on Thursday pulls himself up from a steep ravine where Tanya Rider was found inside her crashed vehicle.Chris Joseph Taylor / The Seattle Times via AP

A sheriff has ordered a review of the 911 calls made about a woman who spent more than a week missing before search crews found her trapped in the wreckage of her sport-utility vehicle.

King County Sheriff Sue Rahr’s order comes after Tanya Rider’s husband complained that he had to fight to get authorities to launch a search for his wife.

Tom Rider said he asked the sheriff’s office last weekend to use cell phone technology to try to find his wife, but was told she couldn’t be categorized as a missing person because she wasn’t a minor, suicidal or mentally ill.

Authorities found the Maple Valley woman after detecting the general location of her cell phone Thursday morning, then searching along a highway southeast of Seattle.

Rahr said her department gets up to 700 missing persons reports a year, and the vast majority involve people who fail to come home on time or “an adult who wants to leave on their own accord.”

Nevertheless, Rahr said she takes Tom Rider’s concerns seriously. “I want to know if he tried to report this and we made a mistake,” Rahr said. “If we made a mistake, we’re going to address that.”

Tanya Rider, 33, remained in critical condition Saturday at a Seattle hospital where she was being treated for kidney failure and other injuries.