But before she disappeared she left that couple a voicemail, desperation in her voice as she urged them to pick up, according to records obtained by The Everett Herald. Johnson never made it to the couple’s house in Oso, Sallee said. He indicated he only had enough room in his vehicle for one person and kept on going, ultimately declining to give her a ride. Johnson set out toward the church on foot around 1:30 p.m., and the second man also started walking away from the house.Ī third man who was set to pick Johnson up at the church and take her to Oso eventually drove by and saw her walking on Fire Trail Road with the man who also wanted a ride, Sallee said. A second man, who had been staying at the same house as Johnson, wanted a ride, too.īut things went awry on November 25, and Sallee said Johnson’s friend backtracked on the offer to give her and the second man a ride. The friend she was staying with was supposed to give her a ride to a nearby church, where someone else would pick her up and take her to the couple’s house in Oso. Johnson stayed there overnight, and planned the next day to head to the house of a couple she knew in Oso about 30 miles away. On November 24, a day before she was last seen, Sallee said her estranged husband dropped her off with a suitcase at a friend’s house on the Tulalip reservation. She was staying mostly with friends, returning to the couple’s shared house every few days to pick up her mail and take a shower before heading out again. The following sequence of events, based on a CNN interview with Tulalip Tribal Police Department Detective David Sallee and a local news report in The Everett Herald, is what authorities have pieced together based on cell phone records and conversations with people who saw her.Īt the time Johnson disappeared, she and her husband weren’t in a good place, Sallee said. There’s a lot unknown about the circumstances under which Johnson disappeared last year. Too often, that means families like Johnson’s are left waiting without answers. While about half were usually found within a week of going missing, as per the report, family members and advocates said none received the same level of media coverage nor the same urgency in law enforcement’s response as missing White people. Meanwhile, at least 710 Indigenous people - more than half of them women or girls - were reported missing between 2011 and September 2020 in Wyoming, where Petito’s remains were found this week, according to a University of Wyoming report. Those feelings ring especially true this week, as the case of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito captured the attention of the internet.
“None of that has happened for our sister.” “If that was a little White girl out there or a White woman, I’m sure they would have had helicopters, airplanes and dogs and searches - a lot of manpower out there - scouring where that person was lost,” Nona Blouin, Johnson’s older sister, said. While family members and advocates welcome the move, they also wonder what took so long. Only last week did the FBI announce it would offer a reward of up to $10,000 for information about Johnson’s disappearance.
A billboard on Interstate 5 and local media coverage have yielded few credible tips, and tribal police have yet to make an arrest in the case.
It’s been nearly 10 months since Johnson was reported missing. Johnson, an enrolled citizen of the Tulalip Tribes and then 39 years old, was walking on a road in Western Washington, en route to the house of some friends in a nearby town. The last time anyone said they saw Mary Johnson - also known as Mary Davis - was on November 25, 2020.
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