OR KAYLEE BIRT: Missing from Fields, OR (while on road trip from Oregon to Iowa) - 4 April 2025 - Age 29

https://amp.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/national/article304018456.html

29-year-old on solo trip across US leaves burger joint and vanishes, OR cops say​

A 29-year-old vanished on a solo trip across the country after she last seen leaving a burger joint in Oregon, deputies said.

Kaylee Birt disappeared April 4, the Harney County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.

Birt left the The Fields Station in her gold 2008 Chevy Malibu with an Oregon license plate of GW21073, deputies said.

The Fields Station is a restaurant, store, motel and gas station in Fields, which is a remote and unincorporated community in southeastern Oregon.

She was headed to Iowa, deputies said, but her vehicle was discovered abandoned April 6 in a remote part of Harney County in Oregon, deputies said.

Deputies said they determined a location where her cell phone last pinged, and they searched the area but couldn’t find her.

Search teams looked for her for seven days by “air, ground, UTV, drone, foot and horseback,” deputies said.

However, authority-led search efforts ended April 10.

“The Sheriff’s Office will post signage near Kaylee’s last known location, informing visitors to the area to be vigilant of any potential evidence,” deputies said.


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[RoundPeg]

Well, if she is found alive, I'd love to hear what the deal is. Obviously, I'd like her to be found alive. I just am perplexed by her potentially wandering around for 17 days now.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Well, if she is found alive, I'd love to hear what the deal is. Obviously, I'd like her to be found alive. I just am perplexed by her potentially wandering around for 17 days now.

It wouldn't be the first one...

I know we'd all prefer she was alive but yeah, hard to understand no doubt what the deal is here.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Per Facebook, search dogs from Dylan's Legacy (for Dylan Rounds) will be out to search this week. <3

 

[GrandmaBear]

I really like what SOME of these families are doing. In helping others.

It's really imo an involved subject but sadly money, resources, PDs, etc. they don't always have the authorization or the $$ or politics play in. Pretty sure most know my opinion on a lot of it but it really goes both ways. Some try to use it and make off it and others really want to help and lost people in their lives in their name.

Things do need to change. I went back and forth on Dylan's mom through his being missing. I so understood her but in the same breath you are told not to say anything and trust the process, LE, etc. And then you worry if you say something when in such grief, you will wreck the case...

However, I totally understood the mamabear thing. I recognize similar in Kaylee's dad in the ID 4. I've seen it in others. Ours was smaller, not so known, but it was quite something to learn of the system. It was HARD to trust in it.

I think a lot of things need to chance. In the system. I don't know that they ever will.

But I know this, people helping people like this is good. If not in it for the wrong reasons and doing it as a tribute to their child and change things and help others.