By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office took a missing person report of a 57-year-old Randle woman who left her her house without her purse and car and hasn’t been seen since for almost three weeks.
[1]Trisha McKenzie-Fire
Trisha McKenzie-Fire lives with her boyfriend Kent Anderson on Silverbrook Road in Randle.
Anderson, 67, said he called authorities on April 2 after he woke up and she wasn’t home.
Sheriff’s detective Jamey McGinty said last week it’s not entirely unlike her leave without telling him where she’s gone.
But Anderson says he’s sick with worry.
“I want her found,” he said. “Nineteen days, that’s enough. She’s never done this before in her life, since I’ve known her.
“Just to walk out with no ID, no bank cards, no purse. Her purse is here and her car’s in my garage. Just nothing.”
The night before, the two, along with a friend, were drinking whiskey and Anderson went off to bed, he said. At about 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., the friend, who was sleeping on the couch, saw her go outside with a cigarette, Anderson said.
He has searched the property, and posted missing person flyers from Packwood to Centralia.
Anderson has been checking with her bank to find if there is any activity on her account; the sheriff’s office is doing the same.
McGinty said they’ve notified law enforcement up and down the Interstate 5 corridor.
The couple lived in a Chehalis apartment until about three years ago. She doesn’t work.
“When you get someone who just walks out the door and seemed fine, you just don’t know where to start,” McGinty said.
Anderson had suggested to the detective McKenzie-Fire might have checked herself in to a treatment facility. Because of drug and alcohol treatment centers’ confidentiality restrictions however, that can’t be confirmed, he said.
Anderson said he had left her a note before he went to bed that night about that. She left her prescription medications behind as well, he said.
McKenzie-Fire has brown hair and blue eyes. She is described as 5-foot 10-inches tall and 150 pounds.