A sheriff’s official says an Indiana couple missing for about a week has been found in a remote mountain area of southern Nevada, but the husband was dead and the wife was taken to a hospital
ByThe Associated Press
6 April 2022, 16:32
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RENO, Nev. — An Indiana couple missing for about a week has been found in a remote mountain area of southern Nevada, but the husband was dead and the wife was taken to a hospital, a sheriff’s official said.
Ronnie Barker, 72, and Beverly Barker, 69, were found with their car late Tuesday afternoon in the Silver Peak area of Esmeralda County, Mineral County Undersheriff Bill Ferguson said in an email.
Rescue personnel from Mineral County, one of several counties involved in the search, located the couple, and a military helicopter airlifted the woman to a Reno hospital, Ferguson said.
Family members who reported the Barkers missing have said on numerous social media posts they left on a cross-country trip last month and were expected to return this week to their home in Indianapolis. They said the couple departed Albany, Oregon, on March 27 and planned to meet with friends in Tucson, Arizona, on March 29.
The couple had been towing their car with an RV that officials said earlier Tuesday had been found stuck in a ditch.
Silver Peak is 177 miles (285 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas.
Travis Peters, a nephew of the couple, told KVVU-TV in Las Vegas that Ronnie Barker’s death was a blow to the family.
“Ronnie no longer being alive in this family is a hole, and its never going to be filled … he’s just a bigger-than-life personality,” Peters said.
Peters said it was unclear what happened to the couple.
“Thank God that Beverly is alive, because she will be able to fill in those blanks that we don’t know. Why did they go up the mountain? What happened?” Peters said. “She’s going to be able to tell us.”
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