On July 25, 2011, at approximately 7:45 PM, Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the 5400 block of Onyx Drive, Prescott, regarding a reported missing 10-year-old male. Bill Gunn, the child’s father, told dispatchers his son Dakota had been missing for about an hour.

On Monday, May 30, 2011, 20-year-old Cate McCabe from Paulden was reported missing to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were told that Cate had gone out with her boyfriend on Friday, May 27, 2011, and had not been seen or heard from since. On Saturday, Cate’s boyfriend returned to the area but was unclear to her family where Cate could be found. Over the weekend, Cate’s family contacted various hospitals in the area thinking she could have been injured in an accident. Cate was not located.

On April 25, 2011, around 1 PM, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office was contacted by a Mr. Greg Cain who reported that his 41-year-old wife, Amber, and 8-year-old son, Nathan, were missing. The family had been camping on Mingus Mountain near Forest Road 413. Greg indicated he had last seen them about 2 hours prior. He searched the area before calling, but could not locate either his wife or child.

On April 1, 2012, at approximately 2:45 AM, Yavapai County Sheriff’s office dispatchers were notified that 4 persons were stranded in an area near Thousand Trails Road outside of Cottonwood. The reporting party, who was not part of the group, had been in contact with one of the stranded adults the prior night and learned their vehicle had broken down during an off-road outing