Chelsea Grimm.Photo:Coconino County Sheriff’s Office
Coconino County Sheriff’s Office
Chelsea Grimm wasreported missingto the Phoenix Police Department on Oct. 4, according to a press release from the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office. She was last seen on Sept. 28 in Arizona and originally planned to travel cross-country from San Diego to Connecticut for a wedding, the sheriff’s office said.
The day after she was reported missing, hunters informed CCSO deputies that they had located a suspicious vehicle on Kaibab National Forest Road 6 near Ashfork.
“It’s excruciating. You wouldn’t wish it on anyone," said Stephen Grimm, the missing woman’s father, per KPNX. His wife Janet added, “It’s been just a horrible, horrible, horrible experience.”
The CCSO did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
The animal was not found in the vehicle, nor was Grimm’s wallet, phone or sleeping bag, per the reports. Her camera, however, was left behind.
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“I just was doing a photo shoot of the lost soldiers and got a little emotional, so I was crying before I got back on the road,” Grimm told the officer, per the footage. She later revealed that she was planning on “camping for the night," the outlet reported.
Grimm called her parents on Sept. 27 and informed them that she wouldn’t make it to New England in time for the wedding, according to KPNX.
Instead, her mother said Grimm planned to “take a couple of days and camp,” and warned them not to expect to hear from her “for a couple of days.”
Though Grimm does have experience with camping, her father said she hasn’t done much of it since she was a teenager. “It was a little unusual,” he said about his daughter’s plan.
source: people.com
