Family disappears looking for Christmas tree
Posted December 19th, 2007 by minortopics | via www.sacbee.comUPDATE: Family found on Wednesday, 1:00 pm, December 19, 2007 - alive and well.
Vanished.
A father and 3 kids set off to find and cut down a Christmas tree when a fierce snow storm blows in, covering their tracks and whereabouts…
PARADISE – The Dominguez family set off Sunday afternoon, dressed in T-shirts, jeans, light jackets, and sneakers. Their plan was to drive into the mountains near Inskip, find the perfect Christmas tree and head back home to Paradise.
Later, someone would report seeing them walking into the woods with a saw at about 5 p.m. Sunday.
After that, nothing.
They didn’t reckon on a fierce storm that would dump snow by the yard over the next 48 hours. As darkness fell Tuesday, more than 50 exhausted searchers had found no sign of Frederick Dominguez, 38, and his children Christopher, 18, Alexis, 15, and Joshua, 12.