In my previous two blog post articles I wrote about my frightening experience in Mott, North Dakota at the crossroads of Highway 8 and Highway 21 at 12:10 a.m. Sunday, July 11. In the two instances where people emerged from the vacant dark streets to approach my vehicle, I didn’t know what their intentions were. Was it to car-jack me, rob me, sell me drugs?
On the following Monday morning July 12, I saw a news article where the Stark County Sheriff Department had found an Oregon woman’s vehicle outside of Lefor, the woman was missing, and the Sheriff Department was seeking information. The population of Lefor is only 80 people, but it is one of the next nearest towns to Mott, 32 miles away.
Here is the link to this news article about this missing woman: https://www.kfyrtv.com/2021/07/12/stark-county-sheriffs-deputies-seek-help-locating-missing-oregon-woman/
After reading this news article, I was very concerned about this woman having been car-jacked, kidnapped, raped, and murdered by the people lurking in the dark at the crossroads in Mott, North Dakota. I pictured some North Dakota DOT guy and his cousin, out on a farm with a bunch of missing women buried in graves, and a stack of Highway 21 West routing signs laying on the ground covered over by weeds and vines.
I was scared to call the Stark County Sheriff Department to give them information, because I didn’t want to end up like that Trinity High School Principle that the Police tortured until he confessed to setting the Trinity High School on fire, even though he didn’t do it. What do you think that they would do to me?
On Thursday afternoon I called the Stark County Sheriff Department to ask if the missing woman from Oregon had been found, knowing that they were probably going to try to blame me for it. After being put on hold for a few minutes, a Sheriff Officer got on the phone and said that the Oregon women had been found, her vehicle had run out of gas, she walking away looking for gas and got lost.
One of the reasons why I continued writing about what happened to me, and this new story about the missing woman from Oregon, is to draw attention to the fact that unmarked streets, highways, and highway routing in rural areas of North Dakota is dangerous for motorists. The stopped motorists from out of town are targets for victimization, especially at night.
Dickinson58601 
i hope you used a phone line not affiliated with your name. I have such distrust for cops and legal systems I dont put anything past them.
Several years ago I spotted a woman DOA in her car, on a local neighborhood road. This is a highly traveled cut through road in residential area . She was parked off the side just before a stop sign and entrance onto another main road. I passed slowly as that was traffic speed approaching stop sign. I looked over because this was a odd place to park and take a nap in drivers seat with head tilted back and mouth agape. I went onto main road found a place to turn around and went back to have a closer look. I was surprised no one else had taken notice and called 911 emergency services. I approached her driver’s door and it was clear she a was most likely DOA. She had no teeth and appeared to be a dope junkie. All the usual sings of that. So to my point, I made the call to 911 . I was interrogated for a solid 5 minutes about my personal information over the phone. First question was, sir what is your phone number you’re calling from. Duh ? I replied the same number on your caller i.d. So after 5 minutes of this interrogation I was asked to wait and meet with Fire Dept and Police, I declined immediately. I left the area and went to my friends place for afternoon cookout. Once there my phone started ringing from emergency service Dispatch. I didnt answer. I knew if they really wanted me they could easily find my info. My lesson learned is this, never call again. Have someone else use their phone and be put in the system data banks for eternity.
Ray
Annapolis Md
Formerly U.S.A.
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In reply to Ray,
I probably told this story before, I was a passenger in a truck driven by my friend Doug in Florida when we were in our late 20s and had been to several bars that night. At about 1:00 a.m. laying on the road centerline was what turned out to be a young lady who had been hit by a car and left there. My friend Doug did not want to stop or call the Police, fearing that he would be blamed for it. I persuaded him to stop and call the Police, we blocked the road so that no one else could run over this young lady. When the Highway Patrol arrived, the first driver that arrived at the scene after us, a “Volunteer Firefighter”, he insisted to the Highway Patrol that we had hit this young lady. Long questioning by Highway Patrol, plus no damage to Doug’s truck, so Highway Patrol believed us. But so much for being a Good Samaritan. And, some people are like the “Volunteer Firefighter”, they are so convinced that someone must be guilty, that they would probably go so far as to plant evidence to get a conviction.
No, I used my mobile phone which Law Enforcement has in their database, plus I gave my full name, plus I waited for 5 minutes on hold expecting that they were scrambling to get an audio recorded line set up with a detective to question me, because I called in to ask if the missing woman from Oregon had been found yet. If she had not been found yet, there was probably an 80%-90% chance that I would become a suspect. Probably a 50% chance that local Law Enforcement would probably begin trying to frame me. Only thing I had in my defense was documentation and witnesses of what time I left at 11:30 pm, documentation by security camera video of when I arrived home, and hopefully, hopefully a continuous record of mobile phone pings on cell phone towers indicating the route I took home and time stamps at each point along this route, to make it impossible that I was near Lefor.
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