Steve Windsor Interviewer:
 
My exclusive interview with Mr. Harry Oakes from Portland, Oregon. 2004.
 
Over the years I’ve interviewed Presidents of countries, multimillionaires, and yes-even housewives. One of the most interesting interviews I had was in 2004 when I talked with the dog handler from Portland, Oregon who located Ashley Pond buried under cement on Ward Weaver’s property in Oregon City, Oregon in 2002.
 
I have found that by nature some folks are jealous of other people’s successes. So in turn, they badmouth those who are successful in hopes it will boost their own ego. They forget that some people fight back. One such person is Harry Oakes. He doesn’t get physical though he is a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, he fights back with documented facts. I must say, I’ve reviewed his records and they are well documented and support all of his statements.
 
I interviewed Harry while he was getting ready to do a story for a TV show on NBC and we talked in great length about Harry’s success in 36 years of SAR work around the world.
 
Over the years Harry Oakes has had many roles. 12 years as a police officer, 25 years as K9 SAR instructor combined with 10 years as a mountain rescue instructor, and the list goes on and on. He’s been an EMT during 25 of those years, he’s volunteered for 15 years for the American Red Cross. He teaches children and adults how to stay safe in the wilderness, on the city streets, and prepare for disasters such as earthquakes. He’s been a guide with the Mazamas, he’s taught through OMSI, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. He’s been hired by numerous professional firms around the world to lecture on safety. Numerous governments have brought him in on their disasters to coordinate and work the scene.
 
Harry you have many folks who just don’t like you. Why is that?
 
Harry; I’ve seen some folks who are simply jealous of our success and over the last 25 years have repeatedly tried to attack my credibility and my team’s success. They have done this by going through the media, TV, radio talk shows, and through the newspapers and giving out ONE SIDED - misinformation. 
 
Fact: Over the last 25 years, each time we’ve performed a search mission, we document, the date, location, our contact information, time involved and our findings. Our reports and files have held up under close review by the;
 
Oregon Dept. of Justice who did a three-year investigation and found absolutely no criminal wrong doing on my part nor did I ever have to pay any fines. They in fact helped me develop the first for profit K9 SAR Dog team in the nation.
 
The I.R.S. who audited my records, and found my records were in order and credible.
 
The FBI who have used our services around the world. You can bet if I wasn’t credible or if my team wasn’t credible we never ever would have been involved in their searches in the Federal Building explosion in Oklahoma as well as the kidnapping and homicide investigation of Claudia Kirchoch in Jamaica.
 
Other Government agencies have used us successfully around the world to determine what really happened to a specific missing person missing in on foreign soil.
 
Interviewer: What other governmental agencies are you talking about?
 
Harry; In the interests of National security, I’d rather not list them but just say, Govt. agencies and leave it at that. Foreign governments such as the Island of St Croix USVI, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Turkey are just some of the countries we’ve assisted.
 
Several courts though out the nation that have used me to testify as an expert witness and reviewed my credentials before I gave testimony to establish my credibility. I testified as an expert in the field of Search and Rescue, K9 search dog training, training, testing, and working a search dog. Finding lost persons, scent, scent evidence, and working disasters, kidnappings and homicides. I’ve had many attorneys over the years contact me for consulting purposes regarding my expert opinion on scent, search dogs and animals in general. Capturing, training, how scent works, etc.
 
Interviewer: So what do you have to say to those folks in the media and other searchers who have bad mouthed your efforts to help people during their time of need?
 
Harry; Put up or shut the hell up. I’m sick and tired of their B.S. The Court system accepts my credibility and credentials. That’s all that matters. That and my documented successes.
 
Interviewer: Why are all these folks angry with you?
 
Harry; Because I find the missing when they can’t. It makes them look bad. It’s so easy to sit back and armchair quarterback over 7,534 missions. In the last 25 years. When someone attacks me, they attack my search dogs, my other team members, and all of our efforts so I do take this personally.
 
We have never seen one single person from any one of these SAR or law enforcement agencies, who have bad mouthed our unit, and myself, spend their own money, risk their own lives, to crawl through a collapsed destroyed building in the U.S.A. or in a foreign country, looking for the live and the dead victims of earthquakes, bombings, floods, fires, or other disasters which we've responded to around the world.
 
We’ve never seen one of these individuals from N.A.S.A.R., Ca. Ore., and Washington SAR Council, who continue to bad mouth our efforts, wading through the hot steamy snake, and crocodile infested jungles, in the Philippines, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Haiti, St Thomas, St Croix, USVI, and Jamaica, looking for missing victims. Yet we’ve been there. And we were successful in our searches there. Again all documented.
 
We’ve never seen any of these folks in the flood-ravaged lands of Honduras, Haiti, and the Pacific NW looking for drowning victims. Yet we’ve documented our assistance in Armenia, Philippines, Northridge, Turkey, Jamaica, and in over seven thousand other search missions around the world.
 
Interviewer: Who is we?
Harry; At one point I’ve had over 65 team members. One dog one handler makes up a team. Currently I have 40 active team members attached to International K9 Search and Rescue Services. We have doctors, senators, lawyers, nurses, paramedics, house wives, house dads, people from all walks of life have joined our teams. I’ve trained over 6,500 search dog handlers and their dogs around the world. Each one has been successful in SAR.
 
Interviewer: Harry you say in your web site “To date, there has been no factual documented proof of any criminal wrong-doing by you or your team members. Nothing produced to support anyone's statements of any wrong doing by You or your team members, by any law enforcement agency or SAR group”. Have you ever been arrested and charged for any criminal action of any kind?
 
Harry; Nothing what so ever. I’ve received one speeding ticket 25 years ago and two parking tickets. That’s it.
 
In fact, we have hundred’s of letters from Law enforcement, government agencies, including three from former Presidents of the USA and one from former President Aquino of the Philippines expressing their gratitude to our abilities in helping others in their time of need. We’ve received many letters of thanks from the families of the victims as well.
 
Interviewer: Harry you have heard the verbal and written attacks against you personally. Many Sheriff’s in the state of Oregon and Washington have made comments such as "Harry’s a controversial figure in Oregon in regards to SAR work". Why are you so controversial?
 
Harry; my attorney and myself have asked the various Sheriff’s and SAR Groups to produce one single document showing factual information regarding their statements to back up their statements. In over 38 years of looking for missing people and 25 years working with the search dogs, while we’ve been providing service to the Sheriff’s departments and to the private public sector, we have yet to see a single piece of written documentation to support any of their statements. Nothing at all.
 
We can produce hundreds of letters and reports in support of everything we’ve said and done. When we ask the sheriff’s and other K-9 teams involved to contact our references that support what we’ve done, they never have. Instead they would rather just continue to verbally sit back on their hindquarters and verbally attack us, to try to make them look better and less incompetent.
 
This after we repeatedly enter the search privately on behalf of the victim(s) families and find the missing victim(s) in the original search areas where the sheriff's teams failed to find the missing person(s). This destroys the sheriff's and Volunteer K-9's credibility, not ours. Again it’s all documented.
 
Interviewer: So do you think this an ego issue?



Harry; Yes. HONESTLY. Every time I've been investigated regarding my search and rescue services and my successes, it's been found that I've been 100% truthful. I've even taken and passed a polygraph on this matter. (See the 1998 D.O.J. Audit and I.R.S. Audit reports). The IRS, DOJ, FBI, NSA, and CIA have checked us out. We continue to be proven credible beyond reproach.
 
Interviewer; You say you are “Courtroom Proven”. Which courts?
 
The courtrooms in Clark and Multnomah County have in the past openly accepted our training, testing, certification process and our documentation. We've obtained several search warrants based on our abilities and results and also given expert testimony in the courts of law regarding scent, scent evidence, search dogs, and search and rescue. Again I’ll say, “If it’s good enough for the courts, it ought to be good enough to the local law enforcement”.
 
TESTING. My documented searches and success qualifies me as an expert in the courtroom regarding scent, scent evidence, search dogs, search dog training, testing and certification. We are one of 200 search and rescue K-9 teams that is a self-testing dog team. We’re not doing anything different, then the other 200 search dog teams in the USA and Canada. (See the 1997 national survey). Yet we don’t see the other K-9 teams testing and standards under attack by the OSSA. (Oregon State Sheriff’s Association). Why is that?
 
Interview; I’m asking you then, Harry why is this?
 
Harry; It's because we get results when the O.S.S.A. teams have failed repeatedly. This makes them look bad. See copies of the Eli Kelt, Dela Carlson, Ashley Pond, and Miranda Gaddis search reports for examples. “Dateline special “Into Thin Air” segment regarding Ward Weaver and Ashley Pond murder case in Oregon City, Oregon.
 
We feel it’s because the O.S.S.A., (Oregon State Sheriff’s Association) wants everyone to believe their tester is honest, reliable, and credible.
 
If that’s the case then, why is it documented that we’ve gone in after the O.S.S.A. has called off their official search, after they have used their O.S.S.A. State Certified SAR Dog teams, and they’ve found nothing, yet we found the victim(s) in their original search areas? Dela Carlson, Brian Harris, Eli Kelt, Ashley Pond, Scott Spangle Jr. who are just some of the dead victims listed that we found their remains when the O.S.S.A. teams couldn’t in the original search areas.
 
One embarrassing example is the 2002 Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis search in Oregon City, where the O.S.S.A. teams and even their state tester with his dog Marty Neiman, and the FBI teams repeatedly went onto the suspect’s property (Ward Weaver) and searched several suspicious areas. They repeatedly reported that their teams had found nothing, even after drilling holes and pumping warm air under a concrete slab the O.S.S.A. teams stated publicly to the media, Portland Tribune and the Oregonian Newspaper, "There's nothing under the slab".
 
In March 2002, I with my SAR Dog Valorie, entered the search on behalf of Lori, Ashley’s mother. I donated my time and efforts for the search for  Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. I documented finding Ashley's buried remains under the concrete slab and Miranda Gaddis in Wards lay down freezer in Ward Weaver’s kitchen March 30, 2002.
 
I immediately forwarded my reports to the FBI, OCPD, and to the victim’s families. This verified by MSNBC Dateline TV Producer Shane Bishop and Keith Morrison Interviewer for NBC.
 
In Aug. 2002, the FBI finally dug up Ashley's remains under public pressure and, right where my SAR dog Valorie indicated, they found Ashley remains. Between March 2002 and Aug 2002, Ward Weaver moved Miranda’s remains to a shed. The police did verify that the murdered victim’s remains had been in the freezer where SAR Dog Valorie had shown me where they were at the time of their search in March 2002.
 
If this doesn't prove my SAR Dogs credibility beyond reproach, what does? SAR Dog  Val indicated and I reported there was a body under the concrete slab. The FBI dug up said body 5 months later right were we located it during our private search.
 
We’ve repeatedly documented entering the search after the O.S.S.A. has called their efforts off and we’ve repeatedly either found the victim, or found out what had happened to the victim, in the original search areas. Now whose credibility is really on the line here the O.S.S.A. K-9 teams, or ours? We’ve found every person we’ve looked for or have determined what really happened to them and the suspect(s) involved in their disappearance. (This verified by our reports and the local police reports).
 
With the POND / Gaddis case, I demanded the O.S.S.A. remove their Ore. state certification process, reevaluate it, and accept N.A.S.A.R. (National Association for Search and Rescue) SAR Dog standards which I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Teams along with 200 other National teams use as a guideline. As of this writing, the O.S.S.A. Standards are no longer credible and the O.S.S.A. Certification process is under revision. We were informed that their state tester has been removed from his role thanks to my team’s efforts.
 
Interviewer: Harry some search folks have accused you of showing up on a search uninvited?
 
Harry; Again I’ve asked these folks who have made these statements to come forward with DOCUMENTED PROOF of what they are saying. In 38 years of looking for missing persons and 24 years with the K9 units, “no one has been able to provide one single piece of paper to back up their statements”.
I’ve never done that and never will. It’s unprofessional.
 
Interviewer; You’ve been attacked by the local paper. What that all about?
 
Harry; BAD PR, THE LOCAL MEDIA IS GUILTY ALSO. The local media has a responsibility to show both sides of each issue. Yet they have failed miserably in doing this. Every time a statement is made against I.K.9.S.A.R.S. or myself personally. They print it or discuss it on the TV, on the radio, or in the newspaper. Yet when I and others have brought forth documented proof to dispute their statements made against me or my team members, the media has failed to provide their readers and viewers with both sides of the issues.
 
Interviewer; Can you give me an example of what you are talking about?
 
Example: We’ve responded to Turkey, Honduras, Jamaica, St. Croix USVI., and the Dominican Republic. There are no stories done by the local media on any of those missions. Yet whenever the other K-9 teams do a search, the media is all over their actions in a positive action. Look at the coverage NW Medical teams got for responding to the same sites where we’ve responded. Is this fair?
 
The Portland Tribune and Gresham Outlook finally became frustrated with the local law enforcement and SAR team’s lack of results on the Ward Weaver case. And the one sided articles written by the Oregonian newspaper.
 
When I proved to the FBI and OCPD and to the media that my search dog teams were right all along on the POND / GADDIS search, these newspapers came forward and wrote the facts about the case to expose the attempted cover up by unethical dog handlers from the State of Oregon.
 
The law enforcement teams continue to tell the media, "Oh the bodies were moved" and "weren't there when the O.S.S.A. teams searched Wards property". Now you tell me how do you move a body buried in a barrel under four feet of rocks, dirt and concrete?
 
Even Wards son admitted his father Ward had killed both girls and buried Ashley right where my SAR Dog Valorie and I located her remains under the concrete.
 
Here’s an example of the one sided reporting done by the Daily News in Longview, Wa.
Pat, the one-sided idiot reporter, only covers the Sheriff’s statements and Marty’s statements. But if you look at the documented facts, it shows that I told the truth the whole time. So where’s the fairness here? Let’s examine their statements and my responses.
Then you make an informed decision.
 
Checkered past follows search and rescue worker to Longview
By Pat Forgey
Mar 24, 2005 - 07:46:00 am PST

“It was the stuff of a hero story: Harry E. Oakes and his search dog, Valorie, finding Honduran flooding victims following Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

The Longview dog handler and his canine partner were among the search teams featured Sunday on "Storm Stories," the Weather Channel top-rated show.

In the show, firefighters in Honduras praised teams such as Oakes and Valorie for their rescue work and for taking their dogs to a local orphanage to cheer up traumatized children.

Despite the favorable portrayal, and Oakes' recent move to the local area, Oakes is persona non grata in local search and rescue circles. Officials say they're wary of Oakes' checkered financial past and his claimed record of success.”
 
(HERE THE REPORTER SUGGESTS WRONG DOING REGARDING “FINANCIAL PAST and CLAIMED RECORD OF SUCCESS” Yet when I’ve been audited by the IRS and DOJ, my records were acceptable to these investigating agencies. So if I passed their scrutiny, then where’s the problem here?   
                                                  
"He is no longer eligible to do search and rescue in Cowlitz County, like in a number of other areas," said Art Jordan, volunteer coordinator for Cowlitz County Search and Rescue and member of the state's Emergency Management Council.

What Art failed to state in this article was that I have been personally hired by Cowlitz County SAR to teach their SAR team’s rope rescue on several occasions and have been involved in numerous searches with their agency before I went private.
 
Art failed to note that I was removed from the Washington SAR resource list after I filed a written complaint to the Governor’s office, against the Skamania County SAR Coordinator, for his actions where he repeatedly used poor judgment, that we can prove cost several innocent people their lives. Now why didn’t Art want that information to come out?

”Oakes, 49, acknowledges that county sheriffs who head up search and rescue operations often don't like him, but that's because his work is so good.

"Sheriffs often get upset when we come in and find people they can't," he said in an interview last week.

Oakes claims to have found the bodies of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis, two Oregon City girls murdered by neighbor Ward Weaver in 2002, but others dispute that.

"Nobody used him in Oregon City, because he's not reliable," said Marty Neiman, with Search One K-9 Detection, an Oregon nonprofit called in by authorities investigating the case.”



This statement coming from the very same man who told the FBI and OCPD there wasn’t a body under the concrete slab. Marty Neiman the state of Oregon’s certification tester? This from the very same person who has over the years repeatedly gone on talk shows and bad-mouthed Harry every chance he gets to make himself look better. Shame on you Marty. You make yourself look bad by not finding the victims in the original search area in the first place.

”Neiman said Oakes showed up on the scene and volunteered his services but was not used in the official search. In a later, unofficial search, Oakes' search results were so general as to be useless, Neiman said.”



Marty states my “search results were to general”. My report states my search dog gave a death alert where the concrete slab meets the ground right behind Ward Weaver’s house. How more precise can I get?
 
In the end, I was 100% correct in reading my dog’s alerts. Marty was 100% wrong. Whose credibility is really under attack here? Not mine. I’ve repeatedly found victims in the original search areas where Marty and his teams told the sheriff’ there was no victim to be found. Now why can our teams go in and find the victim dead when Marty and his teams can’t?
 
”Oakes runs International K-9 Search and Rescue Services, a for-profit organization, a rarity in search and rescue circles. In fact, Oakes describes his company as "the only for-profit K-9 search and rescue in the nation."

He typically charges $200 an hour for staging and searching, as well as $25 an hour for travel time, according to his website. He said much of his work is searching for pets, which Oakes said can be more profitable than searching for people.

"People won't hesitate paying for a dogs or cat," he said. "People generally won't pay you to search for their missing child."

Cowlitz County Coroner Mike Nichols, a former Search and Rescue coordinator for the county, said volunteer search and rescue crews don't agree with the concept of for-profit search and rescue services.

"Other than Harry Oakes, I don't know of anybody else who hires out to distraught families and promises to find their kin," Nichols said.”
 
Why doesn’t Mike tell the reporter how much he gets paid for looking for missing persons with the Sheriff’s office? Why is that so different? Why does the National park system and the state of Oregon along with several other states possess the laws that allow them to CHARGE for search and rescue services?

”Nichols said Cowlitz County's search and rescue volunteers will look for anyone who is missing and don't ask for payment. Volunteers tend to spend a lot of their own money on equipment, training and transportation. "We only work as volunteers here," he said.”
 
Again, what Nichols is forgetting to tell everyone is that, he’s paid, so why is that different? I’ve been through the Law Enforcement academies, taught SAR for Polk, Morrow, Clark and Skamania Counties. Is Nichols afraid of the competition?

”Nichols and Jordan said Oakes' reputation in Oregon preceded him when he came to Washington from Portland a year ago.

"He wasn't welcome within search camps within his own state," Nichols said.
 
What Nichols and Jordon forget to say, is;
 
1). Polk and Clackamas Counties in Oregon. Clark and Skamania Counties in Washington, along with the National Park Services, used my search dog teams on a regular basis from 1986 to 1994.
 
2). ”I wasn’t welcome within search camps within his own state of Oregon” only after I testified against the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association on House Bill 3093, where I testified on the mismanagement of SAR in Oregon that have cost lives. I was told by Lt Neil James that,” if I testified against the OSSA at the HB hearing, I would never be used by the O.S.S.A. again”.
 
I testified and told the truth. The Oregon State Police, The Oregon Mountain Rescue Council, the Oregon Fire Fighters Association all supported me in my efforts on HB 3093. Trying to update SAR laws in the state of Oregon which hadn’t been updated since 1974. Because of my testimony, the O.S.S.A. refuses to use my services because I made them look bad in the OREGON SENATE.

In Oregon, Oakes formerly was with Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs and Help Us Find You, Inc., which both were registered as nonprofit organizations. In the late 1990s, both came under investigation by the Oregon Department of Justice, which claimed that Oakes was using the nonprofits as a tax dodge.”
 
If that’s true then why have I been audited by the IRS and came out clean, and have tax records to prove it? We have tax records to show this is an untrue statement. I pay my taxes like everyone else.

"He uses M.W.S.D. and H.U.F.Y. to avoid paying taxes by virtue of their tax-exempt status," the department said in a 1997 court settlement with Oakes”.
 
There was no criminal or civil charges thus no court settlement, so where does he get his information? This is all public record.



”At the time, the agency said, Oakes did not have a personal bank account and used the nonprofits' accounts as his own, paying his personal and living expenses out of them”.
 
That’s not true. It was my business account under my name that showed all payments in and out for M.W.S.D.. Why don’t they discuss how my records proved that I paid for all of the non profit phone bills, electrical bills, office supplies, postage, and every cent brought in and spent out was accounted for? They won’t say this because it destroys THEIR Credibility.



”The department signed an order with Oakes forbidding him to represent himself as a charity of any kind or representing his professional locating services as a public service.”
 
The department also helped me start my for profit business, at their suggestion.



”Oakes said he was cleared by the investigation. We came out squeaky clean," he said. "There was no criminal action brought against us."

The department did require Oakes to pay $7,500, but suspended the fine on the condition he not violate the order. Oakes said the fine was never imposed.
 
The DOJ records prove that I was telling the truth.

More inquiries

An Oregon Justice Department concern involved Oakes' search for bodies at the site of the 1995 bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

The agency said Mountain Wilderness received a $4,000 donation from a canine club in Oklahoma. Oakes immediately was reimbursed for $3,000 in "expenses" he claimed but failed to document, according to the justice department.
 
This isn’t true at all. What I did was totally legal per M.W.S.D. non profit bylaws.  The reimbursement was for money M.W.S.D. owed me for the past year. For the bills I paid out of my own account. Again all money coming in and leaving M.W.S.D. was accounted for with receipts. Every single penny was accounted for. Ask the DOJ. They can validate my statements. They did the audit and said ,”my record keeping was remarkable”.



”Oakes later started International K-9 Search and Rescue Services, his current for-profit company. The 1997 agreement between Oakes and state of Oregon bars him from charging anyone for services if he has volunteered in the search for the same victim.

Oakes, who answers his phone "search and rescue," said he is careful to make it clear to potential clients that he is not with a government agency.”



That’s correct because we’re a professional agency that provides experience professional services.
 
“The Weather Channel program made no mention of Oakes' for-profit status, but it did note that he and a fellow dog handler had to pay their own way to Honduras. Contributions were not sought on the program.”



Gee, they finally told some truth in this report. We’ve paid for our own transportation in the Northridge, Honduras, Philippine, Turkey earthquakes along with the Oklahoma City Bombing disaster.
 
“Weather Channel spokeswoman Kathy Lane said Oakes' business dealings were unrelated to its program. "That would have nothing to do with the story we portrayed," she said. Lane said Towers Productions Inc. of Chicago produces Storm Stories under contract. Towers officials were unavailable for comment.

In addition to questions about Oakes' financial dealings, search and rescue officials have doubts about the quality of Oakes' search work, said Cowlitz County Sheriff's Deputy Chuck Dunnavant, the county's search and rescue coordinator.

"He'll point to a spot on the river and say 'He drowned right there,' and there's no way to prove it," Dunnavant said.”



Why doesn’t Chuck ad that his own dive team verified our search dogs findings in front of the victim’s families? At the time of our search, where the divers were told the victims had drowned in 80 feet of swift current water, the divers found the victims boat and other gear. This after they failed to find anything before our arrival. Oops, if Chuck told that truth, it may discount his statement.

”While with Mountain Wilderness, Oakes participated in high-profile search for two Longview men, Larry Mansur and Dennis Svoboda, who were missing and presumed dead after a boating accident on the Columbia River off Cowlitz County in 1996.

During the hunt, Oakes told officials that Valorie had found the spot where they died, Nichols said. Months later, one of the bodies was found upriver from that spot, leading local search and rescue personnel to doubt the validity of Oakes "find."

"I've never heard of a body going upstream," Nichols said.”
 
Mr. Nichols isn’t a very educated man in regards to water, water currents, and bodies. Otherwise he never would have made such a stupid statement. Bodies have repeatedly been documented moving down stream and upstream with tidal current influences, as well as heavy ship traffic, that can trap a victim and carry them for miles under their drag loads.
Some bodies have been discovered up to 20 miles away from the site where they drowned due to ship traffic.
 
THE OSSA tester and tests aren’t credible. We allowed the O.S.S.A. Tester to test us on the O.S.S.A. K-9 standards. This after the tester openly bragged on the "LARS LARSON RADIO TALK SHOW" that, "he would see that Harry would never pass his tests".  This statement was documented and is on file with MOBA MEDIA.
 
When I took the O.S.S.A. K-9 test, this individual not only failed me and my search dog Valorie at the test, but when I asked this individual (Marty Neiman) to show me where the scent tubes were hidden on the first cadaver search, the tester failed to find a single one himself. Yet he was the tester who hid the items and bragged "Harry would never pass any of his tests". When the scent tubes were finally located and opened in front of witnesses, we discovered the scent tubes were empty and didn’t contain any scent at all. The witnesses and myself inspected each tube in front of Marty. Pam Milleran being one of those witnesses. She also verified the scent tubes were empty. (This proved Marty tried to set my search dog Valorie and I up for a failure test). Now how honest is this?
 
When Valorie and I retook the state cadaver test, Valorie hit on numerous decomposing sites. When the tester brought out the "SCENT TUBE" I examined the scent tube for the smell of "pseudo scent", there was no scent detected.
 
I’ve been testing with pseudo scent for the last 24 years and is qualified to determine if it was used or wasn’t used properly. What’s wrong with this test? Let’s talk about a credibility problem here. The tester is the same person who over the last 24 years had bad-mouthed me and my teams for the documented successful work I’ve done locally and internationally.
 
Lars Larson's radio talk show still maintains, "Harry's search teams can't find a body in a graveyard". Even after I’ve proved I was 100% accurate on the Ashley Pond Case. So where's the truth in the media there? This statement came from the very same State Cert. tester who told OCPD and the FBI (Marty Neiman) that there was, ”no body under the concrete slab”. Leading the detectives on a false trail and costing the FBI and OCPD to continue their effortless search at the cost of over $175,000 dollars.
 
If I.K.9.S.A.R.S. sar dog teams had been brought into the search back in Jan. 2002 when Ashley Pond first disappeared, I felt we would have located Ashley's remains like we did, identified the killer(s), and Miranda Gaddis would still be alive today. The FBI and OCPD would have been able to do their jobs effectively saving a human life, saving another woman from being raped, and saving tax payers $175,000 dollars in the search efforts. We actually documented finding 3 bodies. We turned over one of the body parts to Oregon City Police Dept. on a third body we located. This verified by OCPD files and reports. This again after they (The FBI, Oregon City PD, Search One K-9 Detection and the other search teams had already searched the area and found nothing).
 
My search dog and I DESTROYED THE CREDIBILITY OF THE O.S.S.A. K-9 TESTER.
If a person was to believe in the O.S.S.A. test as a true honest test of a dog team, then that meant that my search dog Valorie and I weren’t qualified to fly overseas to Turkey in Aug. and Nov. of 1999, and search for victims buried in the earthquakes.
 
Yet, it’s been proven through documentation and proof provided by photos, witness statements, and actual recoveries, info provided to the Turkish and US Government officials, that in both of the 1999 Turkey earthquakes, that SAR Dog Valorie and I documented finding 71 buried dead and 14 live buried victims. Just by SAR Dog Valorie and I making one single find of a live or dead person, this totally destroys the OSSA K-9 testing credibility completely.
 
COURT ROOM PROVEN. My documentation and credibility regarding expert witness testimony in criminal cases, was established and has held up, in the Clark County Courtroom Washington State Vs Beeson. And other criminal court cases where I’ve been called to testify. The state of Oregon Medical Examiner signed a presumptive death certificate on Dela Carlson based on my search dog Ranger’s findings of Dela’s remains, reports and test results. (This after local search teams OSSA, and Search One K-9 detection teams and failed to find any trace of her).
 
Fact: We’ve won numerous state, county, and national awards for our work in search and rescue.
 
Fact: My teams and I have found most people dead and some still alive in the ORIGINAL SEARCH AREAS, when the local OSSA K-9 and SAR teams failed to find them. Tim Bunner, Jay Burroughs, Eddy Zawaski, Joey Lefler, Butch Huston, Nathen Montz, Eli Kelt, Abe Ellis, Brian Harris, Dela Carlson, just to name a few victims. Many more on file.
 
Fact: We’re the only search dog team in the world to win the prestige’s Higgens and Langley Swift Water Rescue Award, and the National Jefferson award. We’ve received Two letters from President George Bush Sr. and one from President Bill Clinton for our outstanding work. We've also received letters from the President of the Philippines and Honduras for our rescue efforts in their countries.
 
Fact: We have the skills to find the missing. We have proven and qualified ourselves numerous times over the last 7,640 missions. We are the most successful search dog team in the world in regards to finding both missing people and pets.
 
Fact: We're the only dog team in the world, ever to be invited in to Jamaica to work alongside the Miami office of the FBI, and local police reference the Claudia Kirshock case
 
Interviewer: I’ve heard the comment that you are preying on victims in their time of need”.

Harry; Other comments we’ve heard is, " We’re preying on vulnerable people during their time of need". My response is this.  Any agency, public or private, which provides professional qualified services to a family in need, isn't "preying on them in their time of need". If that is a true, then other professional like us like police officers, paramedics, doctors, nurses, medical examiners, lawyers, and ministers, are all preying on these poor people also. So why are their actions any different? They all either volunteer their time or getting paid to provide a service to people in need just like we do. We’re no different.
 
Fact: Each client is given a business contract. They’re required to read and sign the contract before we start on a search. This contract explains in detail what we can and cannot provide, and our chances of success in the search efforts. They also are instructed to retain a copy of the contract. It also explains what the client will or won’t be required to pay for the search effort.
 
FACT: We are a licensed business in the state of Washington to perform our search and rescue services around the world.
 
FACT: We have documented donating an average of over $47,000 dollars a year in SAR Services to our community regarding missing persons and pets for the last 24 years. 
 
Our References:
Charlie Ringo (My Attorney) Bend, Oregon. cringo@teleport.com Charlie was with me during the 1998 Oregon D.O.J. AUDIT, and can provide documented information to show that:
 
1). We cooperated with the audit.
 
2). That I have always told the truth in my business dealings and documentation
     Of search reports.
 
3). There were no criminal or civil actions brought against Mr. Oakes when the
      Audit report was completed.
 
Retired Polk County Deputy Sheriff Bill Sealy. (503) 623-9123 Polk Co. SAR. (Known Harry for over 10 years). He can testify to Harry's team’s successes.
 
Kris DeSylvia (503) 231-1600. Email: kris@wtpdx.com
Kris performed an independent investigation on the Oklahoma City Bombing Disaster Response by Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs. She can provide first hand knowledge that Mr. Oakes was honest in his response and what really occurred there.
 
Michelle Keating (Dog Handler) Email:michellerae52@comcast.net  (360) 256-4822. One of I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Employees. She's been present with Harry on numerous search missions in the USA and in Honduras. Michelle can verify Harry’s passing of all I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Documented K-9 tests. Michelle can attest to their success in Honduras and on numerous other search missions.
 
Susan Royce (K-9 Search & Rescue Coordinator in Alaska). Email: svroyce@hotmail.com She can verify Harry's teaching abilities and the politics in SAR work.
 
Marla Petal. Email: mpetal@imagins.com Witness to Harry and Val's numerous finds in Turkey in the first earthquake response.
 
Riley and Tana Wooten (Group Leader through the Fire Dept. Current instructor for the Police Academy) Email: rileywooten@hotmail.com Witnessed Harry and Michelle's work in Honduras with their search dogs. Lives in Missouri. (573) 774-4020.
 
Mary Kuhn. (Client). Mary can testify to Harry's credibility and work and the total incompetents of the Clark County Sheriff's office and the Portland FBI, after her daughter was kidnapped and transported to MEXICO. Harry assisted in finding the four kidnapped kids and returning them safely to their families. .
 
Janice Saukko (503) 458-6137 It was her mother's remains that we found in the original search area in Clatsop Co. when OSSA State Cert. SAR Dog teams failed to find her remains and called off their search.
 
Fact: We have thousands and I mean THOUSANDS of satisfied customers around the world.
Why hasn’t the media interviewed any of them to get their side of the story and show that we are honest and brought closure to their cases when no one else would or could?
 
Interviewer: Let’s talk for a moment about scent. What is scent?
 
Harry: Scent is the dead skin cells (10,000 pieces per minute), that is dropped onto the ground while a person or animal is moving.
 
Interviewer: How long can scent be detected?
 
Harry: Inside a structure up to 100 years or longer depending on the contamination, containment, and environmental conditions. Outside we’ve successfully detected scent over a hundred years old.
 
Interviewer: So you’re telling me you’ve detected scent over a hundred years old? Can you give me a documented example?

Harry: Sure, when I was teaching in St Croix USVI we were there with the local K9 sar dog teams in training and the local police. My search dog Valorie went over to an old sugar cane field and alerted at a specific location. We dug up an old grave. The forensic teams determined these human remains were buried in the late 1800’s. Back in the days when slaves were used for labor, if the person died, they were buried right where they died with no head stone marker. This is what we were told by the local police. The police believe my dog Valorie located an old slave grave. This was witnessed by the K9 ST Croix USVI team. They can validate my findings there.
 
Interviewer: Some folks are on the belief that a search dog can’t follow a scent outside after 48 hours. Is this true?

Harry: It’s pure nonsense. We’ve successfully determined a valid track of a missing person in Vancouver BC Canada after he left his house a year before we were called in. It was determined that he committed suicide. Two of our search dogs tracked his scent through a wooded area to a water source where he drowned himself.
 
We’ve also documented hundred’s of cases, all validated by law enforcement, where we’ve tracked a missing person months after they have disappeared and located their remains.
 
Interviewer: So why the difference of opinions on scent?

Harry: When I first was being taught how to track, my instructor through Rocky Mountain Rescue Dogs informed me that no scent could be tracked after one week. I believed this. But over the 7,580 calls we’ve received and tracks we’ve completed, we, along with other dogs teams throughout the world have repeatedly proven this information isn’t true at all.
 
We repeatedly have success in tracking victims that have disappeared weeks, months, later from when they disappeared.
 
Interviewer: What age do you like to start training your search dogs?

Harry: I like to start them as puppies to move through the basics in socialization and bonding and past the behavior issues of biting, chewing, peeing, etc. But we’ve trained dogs as old as 10 years old for searching.
 
Interviewer: What breed of dog makes the best search dog?

Harry: There isn’t one breed that is best. Each breed or mix of breed offers something different to each search case. Bloodhounds, coon hounds, beagles, bassets are great trackers and air scenting dogs. German Shepherds, golden retrievers, labs, standard poodles also have great tracking noses. We’ve trained all breeds and all mixes for tracking, trailing and air-scenting.
Everything from a wiener dog for confined space SAR, to a great dane and everything in between.
 
I have an active team right now in Kentucky that uses Jack Russell’s. They are fantastic search dogs because of their drive. I personally use border collies because of their work drive.

In a rubble site I find the small to medium size dogs can get in and out of the rubble areas ok. Where the larger breeds such as the Golden Retrievers and German shepherds have trouble getting into the tight spots. They can still do a great job, but when you’re crawling through the confined spaces it’s nice to have your dog by your side to help you locate live and dead victims.
 
Interviewer: Do you train your search dogs for one specific task?
 
Harry: Absolutely not. I think that’s ridiculous. We’re an international team which means one week we might be in the jungles of the Philippines looking for buried victims in an earthquake and the next week in California tracking an Alzheimer patient or searching for a drowning victim. So all of our dog teams are trained for all aspects of K 9 sar. They are trained to track, trail, and air scent. They are trained for live and dead human searches to include forensic scent evidence.
Scent discrimination.
 
Interviewer: Are you cocky about your attitude in teaching K9 SAR and working sar dogs?

Harry: Nope not at all. A search dog keeps you humble. I’m very confident. Some people might portray that as being cocky. Without the search dog, I’m simply a ground searcher out there searching for victims. Without me the handler, the dog is just a dog. Together we make a proven successful search team.
 
Interviewer: Harry I’ve noticed that you don’t allow pinch collars, shock collars, choke chains. Why is that?
 
Harry: I’ve developed a policy and training procedure that’s called Love, Hugs, and Kisses. We reward our search dogs during training and work with praise, love, hugs, and kisses. Never food rewards. We don’t use choke chains, shock collars, or pinch collars as these are cruel.
 
If you love your dog as you well should, why would you hurt them and make them respond out of fear instead of love and mutual respect? I’ve trained thousands of dogs of all breeds with out these mid-evil torture devices. If you’re training with those devices you are training out of a fear response. Which is more humane?
 
Plus collars kill dogs. We’ve lost two search dogs to collars. One got caught on another search dogs jaw while playing and choked to death. The other got caught on a fence. So absolutely no collars of any kind are allowed on our team dogs.
 
The harness is also used as a seat belt for the dogs. You have control of the whole dog and we buckle them in to the vehicle or aircraft when we’re flying.
 
Interviewer: You have been called a real hard ass by your own employees.
Why is that? You do a background check on each volunteer, they all must be non smokers, no drugs are allowed and if they drink alcohol, they aren’t allowed anywhere near your training or work sites for a min. of 8 hours.



Harry: (Laughing) yes I am. I take our job seriously. We have human and animal lives at stake. This isn’t a game. This is my career. I take it seriously. One in every 200 applicants makes it through our training program. It’s very time consuming. If a handler is under the influences of drugs they aren’t any good to us. Same with alcohol consumption. I have a drink now and then when I’m off duty. A beer or glass of wine with dinner. But I know my limitations. The last thing I need is a drunk team member trying to rappel over a cliff to rescue someone else.
  
Interviewer: You’ve documented that you helped write SAR dogs standards for F.E.M.A. (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and N.A.S.A.R. (National Association for Search and Rescue) back in the late 80’s. Along with standards for NATO Disaster response teams in the 90’s. St Croix K9 SAR, Turkey K9 SAR, Philippine K9 SAR, and numerous other sar dog teams through out the world. Why do they turn to you for these standards?
 
Harry: I was approached by members of FEMA and NASAR in the late 1980’s. Several people besides myself put our input into these standards.
 
Interviewer: Then why aren’t you an active member with NASAR or FEMA?

Harry: They have become very political. I hate politics. As you can see by this interview I deal with ugly politics each and every day. I’m hear to teach and work my dog teams. Nothing else. I’m hear for the victim(s) out there. I don’t want to sit behind a desk and wear a suit and tie. That’s not me.
 
Interviewer: You use your search dogs to find lost pets?

Harry: Yes we do. They need assistance just like a missing human do.
 
Interviewer: Why is it that only a few teams in the USA use their search dogs to find both missing people and lost pets? I don’t understand this. Why isn’t everyone doing it?
 
Harry: Some teams believe that searching for a pet or animal will destroy your credibility in the courtroom. I’ve found this not to be true at all. It’s never ever been an issue. In fact just the opposite. When you can track a missing dog who has been missing for over a week through down town Portland, Oregon right to where it is being held, that proves your search dogs tracking abilities. We’ve done this over and over again all documented by date, time, location, names of people and pets involved and search results. At no time has it ever affected our credibility in the courtroom.
 
The truth of the matter is the folks that don’t want to track pets are lazy. They don’t feel it’s important enough for them to go walking in the rain, snow, and hot sun to do the job. Which doesn’t make sense to me. They have a search dog.
If their dog comes up missing what are they going to use to go find it?
 
Scent is scent to a search dog. Whether you’re searching for a live or dead victim or evidence at a crime scene such as a knife, human remains, hair, teeth or a firearm. The search dog doesn’t care.
 
I feel it has made us better searchers for missing people. You are out there looking for scent and scent evidence. (Clues to confirm why your search dog is tracking the direction it is tracking).

Do you want someone out there who tracks missing people four times a month or missing people and lost pets twice a day each and every day?

Most search dog teams have an average success of 25%. We have a documented success average of 97%. That’s either finding the missing person or pet or determining what really happened to them. Picked up, where, alive or dead, etc.
 
Interviewer: In one of your cases you tracked a missing person who was in a car. Can this really be done?

Harry: Yes. I’ve actually done this successfully on 3 missing person cases and on 15 missing pet cases to where we found what or who we were looking for. One was a little girl who had been kidnapped in Kentucky. Tracking a scent escaping from a vehicle takes a long time. A lot of hours actually tracking and is very dangerous. It’s also very hard on the search dog’s feet. Pounding the pavement so to speak. Because of the danger involved I rarely do this kind of tracking. Many tracking teams throughout the USA have done it successfully and I have been teaching teams how to track missing persons in vehicles since 1990.
 
Interviewer; I’ve reviewed your record keeping, your photos, your awards, letters, and must say, I’m very impressed. Why do you do this job when everyone appears to hate you for doing it?
 
Harry; I grew up in the Military. I was involved in the Cub scouts, Boy Scouts, and Explorer Programs. I worked in the Military when I became of age to serve our nation and then got out of the Army to work as a police officer. I find the work rewarding. I still believe in GOD, APPLE PIE, and the American Way. I believe in Truth, Justice, and above all, I have to answer to God when all is said and done. And I’m damn proud of my achievements. I’ve saved countless lives around the world and in the end, I can say I have made a difference. I’ve spent my own money, donated countless hours to serve mankind.
 
Interviewer; Do you have anything to ad that you want the public to know?
 
Harry: Yes, if anyone has anything to say to me, or about me, then say it directly to my face. My email is searchdog@iinet.com my phone# 503-705-0258.
Make sure you bring documentation that will hold up in the courtroom. Because everything I’ve said here will.
 
Interviewer: We’ll on that note I’m going to end the interview. I want to thank you for your time and on behalf of the people you have provided service to, I want to say “THANK YOU for a job well done”. I’m very impressed.” Good Luck in your future endeavors.

Harry; Thank you
 
Our mission in life continues to help others in their time of need, “So others may live”.
 
Respectfully
 
Mr. Oakes
Office of Emergency Management
International K-9 Search and Rescue Services.
 
I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Harry’s Yahoo 360 blog re SAR.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-aczg0BU5erSlJvtwUKlYqssO
 
Photos of Harry’s search dog teams in action.  
http://www.flickr.com/photos/searchdog/page1/
 
Before your child comes up missing, identify them. If a child is missing, send us the information. We search for missing children and adults. 
 
Write us at searchdog@iinet.com and we’ll send your our free child id kit.
 
If you know of anyone who is missing a human or pet family member please feel free to pass on our web site to them.  Thank You.
 
www.Ifsao.org view our work in Honduras
 
http://pnwbcrescue.blogspot.com/



www.k9sardog.com 
 
International K-9 Search and Rescue Services.
PO Box# 1472 Longview, Wa. 98632 USA
Office (503) 705-0258.  Office: (360) 4148093.
Web: www.k9sardog.com Email: harry98632@yahoo.com
Over 38 years of search and rescue experience in finding missing persons. 
12 in Law Enforcement, combined with 38 in SAR Management, and 25 in K-9 SAR .
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TRAINING:
1972-1974 Started in SAR (search and rescue) with Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department Explorer Post#900 attached to #631 for SAR. (Documentation of searches and findings on file at MCSO).
 
1974-1977. Search unit US Army Military Police. Helicopter Rescue Support. (Classified Files). US Army.
 
1979-1980 Morrow County Sheriff’s Dept. SAR Coordinator. (Documentation of rescues on file with MCSO).
 
1984-1986 Mazama’s safety climbing instructor, crevasse rescue.
 
1986-1992 Portland Mountain Rescue. Team leader, co instructor. (Documentation of search and rescue missions and findings on file with PMR and CCSO).
 
1986-1988 Oregon DOGS. Dogs Organized for Ground Search and Rescue. SAR Dog Handler.
 
1988-1996 Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs. Coordinator, dog handler, instructor.
 
1996-Current International K-9 Search and Rescue Services. Coordinator, dog handler, instructor
 
87-001 Clack. Co. Evidence Search-Kidnap-Homicide. Lake Oswego PD ref: Homicide.SAR Dog Kodi-Dirt Burial-Located evidence for LOPD.
 
88-011 Kidnap Homicide-Doreen Ratterman-Delrey Beach,Oregon. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Results: Located evidence-Bag of sperm/urine from suspect.
 
88-015 Clack. Co. Lake Oswego Golf Course. Altz. Pt. missing in hot  weather x 5 days. Mr. William Griffee. Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Detective f/ LOPD. Ranger located area where victim had died in briar patch from heart attack. Detective gave Ranger and I credit for the find.
 
88-016  Skamania County. Stevenson, Washington Drowning.Victim "J.Weeks" Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog "Ranger" and SAR Dog Rommel. SR#14 MP55. Located victim in 94 feet deep water in Columbia River.
 
88-023  Skamania Co. Sioxon Creek Mitchel Peak, Washington. Mitchel Sowa Search. Lost Elk Hunter. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. JP Troyer SSSAR, Results: Ranger, myself and JP tracked victim and airscented into area where we put hasty team in and located victim with fx leg. Hypothermic. GOOD JOB Ranger.  The SAR deputy stated, "We would not have searched this area if it wasn't for Rangers alerting into it. It was to far out of the search area.
 
89-005  Polk Co. "Jay Burroughs"-Homicide-Pee Dee, Ore. Victim missing 45 days. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Results: MWSD Teams Located victims buried in dirt and debri pile. Also located vital evidence in crime scene to show where victim was killed (SHOT) how he was transported to burial site, where evidence was in an abondoned house to show who shot victim and when and where.
 
89-007  Columbia Co. Drowning-Sauvies Island.Victim"Weslie Desell' R/C from Lt. C.Co.SO. req. teams. Upon responding-All teams canceled as "Sheriff didn't want MWSD teams there." Family called us in privately. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. We responded and within 15 minutes located victim 20 yrds out 40 feet deep in the water. I called the sheriff to come get the victim and he refused. Oregon State Police notified and did recovery. Sheriff mad because his dive team didn’t find the victim and we did. Victim’s father present when the body was recovered on the beach the next day and when we made the find.
 
89-008  Clack. Co. Salmon River Canyon area. Welches,Ore. Missing hiker Glen Crum" missing x 4 days. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Hiked to assigned area to clear. While enroute to area. Ranger and Smokey alerted over cliff. 304th AFRS was flying overhead at the time and we asked them to inspect the area. They located the victim DOA from fall and hypothermia. Same area where dogs alerted over cliff. Good job Ranger and Smokey.
 
89-010  Clack.Co. Squaw Mtn. Joey Lefler lost 3 year old with 3 dogs. Teams:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Sheriff was going to call of search due to lack of clues. On Sat. Ranger and I and ST located boys footprints put MWSD containment team in area and we located the boy alive the next day.
 
89-016 Clark Co. Vanc. Wash. David Douglas Park Missing 2 boys. William and Cole Neer. Teams: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. MWSD and SSSAR. SSSAR found two boys dead. Murdered and molested & Stabbed to death. Ranger Tracked suspect from victim’s body, one mile into city to Andresen st. Vanc. PD with us on track. (Suspect) parked his car here and then left the scene after the crime.
 
89-024  Polk Co. Fall City, Ore. Lost Searcher(Volunteer Fireman). Team:MWSD-H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Results: Ranger picked up victims trail and located direction of travel. I put Searcher Ben Lill up ahead as a containment and we located the victim the next morning. Hypothermic. Good Job Ranger and everyone.
 
89-027  Vanc.Lake-Clark Co. Vanc.Wash. Lee Isle's body found by pheasant hunter dead and molested.Same as in Cole Neer and William Neers case. Evidence Search.  Ranger located physical evidence
 
89-028  Clark Co. Yacolt, Washington  Missing Deer Hunter. Tim Bunner-Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger and MWSD Teams. Results: Ranger tracked victim into canyon (after bloodhound team couldn't locate victim). Ranger located victim alive and very wet and cold next to creek.
 
89-031  Wahkiakum Co. Wash. Missing Bow hunter Butch Huston. Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger ,Scott Rich SAR Dog Otis. Ben Lill. Results: We located victim DOA Frozen against a log. Died from Hypothermia. HE had all the survival gear but didn't use it in time. Ranger alerted over ridge third day of search. Gave 12-49 alert. I informed Scott to go down there with Otis and locate victim as we were too exhausted and needed some rest. Scott found him right where Ranger alerted.
 
90-012  Chemult,Ore. Private Search for missing 9 year old on a pony lost Oct. of 89. Sheriff of Klamath Co. REFUSED 9 offers from MWSD teams during initial major search. MWSD Teams went in and within 48 Hours we were able to pinpoint the airscent alerts where MWSD Teams located remains in coyote feces and Bill G. and SAR Dog Lady assisted in bringing in more teams who located saddle and more remains. All teams given credit for finding Nathan Madsen. SAD Ending to an innocent child because a sheriff in Klamath Co. had his head up his ass. The sheriff’s office searched for 9 months and couldn’t find anything. We searched for 16 hours and found the victim in the original search area. I coordinated private k-9 sar ops.
 
90-015  Polk Co. Missing 11 year old child with a gun. Nathan Montez Search. Suicide. Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger and Bill G.SAR Dog Lady. Results: We located victim DOA self inflicted gun shot wound to head. I coordinated sar ops. And assisted in crime scene investigation and grief therapy for family.  SAD ending.
 
90-023  Sk.Co. Homicide case "GreenRiver Case"Rd#10. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger. Results:located victims clothing and cosmetics. Evidence find.
 
Mult.Co. Missing hikers (Mazamas) Pat Lidrich and Kathy Spencer. Mult.Co. Refused our services and canceled their own efforts after two days of searching. We responded privately and picked up victims trail. 304th located victims 5 days into their search in snow alive and hypothermic 9 miles away. Mult. Co. was very embarassed on this one as they should have been. Very poor management on Mult. Co. SO’s part. They were really embarrassed when 304th landed the women alive in the parking lot right in front of the news cameras. Great job 304th. J.
 
91-Douglas Co. SO. Missing child Tommy Gibson. Kidnap/Homicide. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger.Results: Douglas Co. Deputy Larry Gibson claimed ,”his son was kidnapped in the country down a private rd where two big dogs were sitting in front of with a Marked Police car parked in front of house and four people home sitting in front of Picture Window”. Oregon State Police served search warrant on his house today and asked our team to assist. Larry suspected and later convicted of killing Tommy and fabricating story.
Everything I found showed me that Larry did kill tommy in the kitchen while tommy was eatting and then laid the child outside. Larry then put tommy in back of patrol car and left the scene. Tommys remains have never been found yet. Larry convicted of homicide. Ranger located tommy's shirt where larry buried it outside house under corregated tin roofing.
 
91-027  Mult.Co.Private Call Missing 13y.o male Peter Rudge. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger.Results: Located evidence that showed Diane Waldon was kidnap suspect and investigated matter. Diane arrested back east at hotel. Portland Police very upset that their detectives missed what we found.
 
Hood River Co. Missing Hunter Corey Faye Teams:H.Oakes SAR Dog Ranger and MWSD teams. Results: We were called in privately after SO refused to use all available resources. During the search-our teams located death site and suspect. This after local search teams from the sheriff’s dept failed to find any clues. Suspect failed 5 polygraphs regarding Corey’s death.
 
92-159-001  Mult. Co. PPB Evidence search ref: Homicide. Rocky Butte. Portland, Ore. Found evidence for PPB. Team; H. Oakes SAR Dog Ranger.
 
92-174-016  Vanc.BC Canada Call. Missing 16y/o suicide Michael Hammond. Missing x 6 months. Team:H.Oakes, B.Oakes Ranger and Jim and Brandy. Results: We located where he died in the ocean. Tswwassen BC.
 
92-182-024  Polk Co. Jason Miller -Suicide.Team: H.Oakes Ranger. Results: Ranger located subjects pack and area which led searchers to the victim. Ranger stung by 7 bees from hornets nest. Also located two marijuana Grow operations. Polk Co. SO removed same.
 
92-193-035  Sk.Co. Byron Shurleff -Missing Mushroom picker. Mt. Adams. Team: H. Oakes/Ranger. Results: Ranger tracked victim to where we located him alive.
92-186-028(E). Clark Co. Body Recovery-Columbia Tie Rd. Amboy, Wash. Homicide. Shot in head and buried. Team:MWSD H.Oakes/Ranger Ken Bowlsby.
 
12-16-92 92-205-047(C). Coleman Search Lost Hunter Team: H.Oakes Ranger. Results: Victim located in water where Ranger and other SAR Dogs alerted.
 
93-226-018  Missing Hiker-Hoskins-West Side of Mt. Angelas. Olympic National Forest. Missing x 13 days. Ranger & I flew into sight by helo. We found him in less then 20 minutes on scene. West Side. He had fallen 350' over a cliff to his death. We assisted in the body recovery with park rangers and MT. Rescue. We found his remains after local search dog teams and Mtn. rescue teams searched the same area for 14 days.
 
93-258-050 Polk Co. Missing 17y/o girl with 7 year old mentality. We were told this would be a cadaver search. Missing X(3) days in very cold weather. Girl with her cockerspaniel. Dallas, Ore. WE FOUND HER AND HER DOG BARELY alive.:} Body core temp 92 and heading down. Girl unconcsious. Dog cuddled inside her jacket saved her life. MERRY CHRISTMAS. This after search teams and police searched for her for 3 days and nights and found nothing. We found her alive in 30 minutes.
 
94-269-009  Clatsop Co. Private Missing person search Dela Carlson 77y/o altz pt. Phase#(1). Cleared area of highest POA. Picked up her track found her foot prints and toilet paper every time she changed to another road. We located all this evidence and her remains after Clatsop Co. and Search one K-9 detection searched entire area for three days and told family she wasn't out there.
 
94-269-009 "G" Private Dela Carlson Search. While inspecting the death scene. Ranger located Dela's Jaw bone and teeth under a tree. This is after Clatsop Co. SO stated to Janice, Leroy and Oscar that, "We recovered everything after an extensive search of the scene.". Witnesses to the remainder of the body part recovery was Janice, Leroy and Kris Desylvia.
 
94-315-53(A-B-C) Private Missing Person Bryan Meier Age 23 found DOA in Willamette River.
 
94-341-078 D. Pat Reudinick Columbia River drowning. WPD. We located his remains in the water with the search dogs.
 
94-335-027 (D-O). C. Hall Pine Bluff, Arkansas Homicide. Flew and worked homicide located suspect and ID same through scent evidence on his boots and his vehicle. Good job Ranger.
 
94-359-096  Homicide x 2 . Carlson case Clark Co. Battle Ground Wash. Ranger and Shadow located where victims were killed and id suspect and how he transported victims out of the area. This after detectives went through home and didn’t find anything. Detectives got a search warrant based on our search dog teams findings. Found evidence. ID suspect. Good Job Ranger and Shadow. Suspect convicted of double homicide.
 
 
94-385-122(C) Clark Co. Brian Harris. MWSD teams located victim in search area after search one, Clark Co. SO and SAR and SSSAR and NCEMS and bloodhound team failed to locate him. We found him DOA in search area in less then 15 minutes. Supervised body recovery. We found prior search teams flagging ribbon, 10 feet from his head.
 
95-439-035  Clark Co. Missing Person "Linda Obrien  NE 57th Vanc. Wash. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Tracked from house to bus stop  where tracked stopped behind Vanc. mall. Blood hound confirmed Val's track. Subject later (4) days, called family from Colorado stating she was ok and confirmed that was the route she took. Good job Valorie.
 
95-426-022  Polk Co. Water Search Independance, Ore." John Pope" Search (F) With K-9-20 assist. Loc. Sub. in 29 feet water down stream from first searches and out 20 feet from other side East side of embankmant.
 
09-02-95  Clark Co. Washington. Clark Co.Sheriffs Dept. Request Possible Kidnap homicide case. DEM#95-1217  Martha, Michael and Crystal Beeson missing from NE 72ave. Vanc. Wash. R.P. Sgt. Warren CCSO. Teams: See unit list. Coordinator for MWSD H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie. Results: Searched Victims house. Door broken in from front door. Blood found small amounts throughout the house. Valorie and Tracker gave strong STRESS alerts inside living room and bathroom. MWSD did area search of property and found no bodies. CCSO obtained search warrant based on our findings. (NOTE). DA’s office established my expertise on scent, scent evidence, training SAR Dogs, made me an expert witness. As soon as I completed my testimony in the courtroom, the suspect stood up. Stopped the trial, and plead guilty stating our search dogs were 100% accurate in their track of the victim(s) and suspect.
 
10-06/07-95 Clack.Co. Private search for missing Mt. Climber on Mt. Hood. Ken Budlong. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results. Rode chair lifts  to top of palmer and then climbed to NW ridge of Illumination rock. Picked up death alerts at base of Ill. rock and minor alerts at saddle top. Winds from west at 35 gusting. ICY. Wrote report and faxed to Hood River Co. S O. Alerts coming from Reid Glacier and Yocum Ridge area. 7800 to 8200 foot levels. Body is in crevasse on Reid Glacier. Observed fall line, slide. I filed report with sheriff’s office. Body still in crevasse to this day.
 
95-569-164  Drowning Clark Co. Camas Washington. 14year old, (Billie Talent) drowned 10-13-95 while fishing with a friend. Responded teams.H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1 located victim along with other SAR Dog teams down stream from PLS in Class 3 water.
 
96-668-024(C)  01-25-96 Cowlitz Co. Drowning X (2). Dennis Svoboda and Larry Mansur. Two missing fisherman. Missing X 4 days. Searched their favorite fishing holes. Very cold outside. Snowing in hills. Winds from West 0-5 MPH. Air temp..35f. Water 42F. One found by valorie in 40 feet of water and one found in 60 feet of water. Grief therapy 1 hour with family after debriefing.  We located victims whereabouts after sheriff’s dept and dive team failed to. Sheriff continues to badmouth us to the newspaper on this one. Family witnessed our search and findings. One body found upstream. (this isn’t a surprise since there are TIDAL currents from the ocean in this section of river and heavy boat and barge traffic that tow bodies up and down river all the time.
 
96-676-032(A). 02-11-96 Marion Co. Hwy 99E Drowning X(3) OSP request. Team: H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie and SSSAR(x)2. Victims. Gonon, Satey and Santiago Alblino HMA's. Drowned when their vehicle went off road into flooded onion field.  Made 12 passes. Valorie located both on second pass. 100 feet down stream from PLS. OSP Advised. All 3 bodies recovered.
 
96-730-086(D). Clatsop Co. Searched for David Wahl at alleged last pls. Teams: Harry Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: See report and diagrams. Numerous death alerts. We made phone call and found body. It had washed up in Gray’s Harbor, Wa. They sent notice to Clatsop Co. Clatsop Co. didn’t do anything. Med. Exam. Buried body as a john doe. We had David’s remains exhumed and reautopsied. Proved it was murder, turned case over to OSP who obtained conviction of David’s girlfriend. This after police and search one k-9 detection failed to find anything. We were never once given credit for this find. The family took all the credit on tv.
 
05-30-96 96-730-087(I). David Wahl Mission. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. RESULTS: David was found two weeks after he disappeared by Aberdeen, Wash. PD. Naked and Headless. ID through Fingerprinted. Listed as John Doe until yesterday when Positive ID was made through prints. Already buried. Legal records will show I located the where abouts of David’s remains.
 
08-07-96 96-805-161(A).Clarksville City PD Nix, Diana Homicide Evidence Search-Searched victims vehicle and located death alert at drivers seat foot pedals and carpet areas.
 
08-08-96 96-788-144(F) worked Beard Case. Found death and stress alerts in suspect vehicles at crime lab.
 
96-805-160(B). Diana Nix Homicide. Searched house with detectives from Clarksville City PD. Search Warrant for shoes.
 
08-09-96 96-799-155(B). Viola Morgan Warren Co. Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Kidnapped case from Apt. Tracked with Kentucky State Patrol and worked with FBI on this case. Successful track to where vehicle parked and switched victim to another vehicle.
 
08-10-96 96-788-144(H). Worked Beard Case Found evidence. Tracked suspect to same location where we tracked Jackie. Death alert in suspects house and found shove with dirt and hair on it in suspects closet.
 
10-09-96 96-839-196(K). Marion Co. Grief Therapy at sight where Mariah's body was found. With Ellen Pelker. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Krista also present. MWSD teams able to prove Mariah was murdered and who the suspects were. Police took suspects into custody.
 
01-02-97 97-926-001(B). Cowlitz Co. Phylis Lewellen SARM. Teams: H. Oakes SR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Michelle Keating SAR Dog in training "Rusty" K-9-16. Results: Signed contract, setup overhead management sar ops. and searched immediate area. Also performed Grief Therapy for children. Gave them both GT Bears. Cowlitz Co. refused to dig up body. She’s still under the dirt next to the house.
 
01-08-97 97-928-003(A). Clark Co. Drowning. Ridgefield, Wa. Brian Raff. Five foot of Mill House Boats SlipA-18. Teams. H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. C. Martin SAR Dog Billie K-9-12. Results: Located victim in 5 minutes under dock.
 
97-949-024(B). Pierce Co. Drowning. Missing Person :Raymond Leon Bickle. H. Oakes K-9-1. SAR Dog "Valorie". Results: Located victim Puget Sound Stellicom Warf area 80 feet deep pacific ocean. Family and S.O. advised. Pierce Co. Refused to recover body according to family.
 
03-08-97 97-963-039(B). Clack. Co. Mt. Hood, Ore. Private request to assist by family. Missing snow boarder x 3 days.  Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1 and Garton with SAR Dog in training Dwezel, Michelle Keating base. Results: All of our sar dog teams obtained alerts into Sand Canyon. We advised a news helicopter to search ahead of us in a specific area. They found him alive. CCSO SAR Teams pissed. This after sheriff’s teams, mountain rescue and search one k-9 detection couldn’t find him.
 
04-03-97 97-976-052(A). Mult. Co. Missing Person-Drowning-Accidental. (Victim) We tracked this victim through downtown portland, Ore. After he had been missing a week.  Abraham Steven Ellis: ABE,  Ash St. Portland, Oregon Roger Legg: (Biological Father). Wenda L. Ellis (Mother)  Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: K-9-1. Tracked victim from PLS to Willamette River. K-9-15 verified. Family and Police and NMCLC notified. MCSO River patrol Lt Dan Fitz gave Val and I credit for the find.
 
04-04-97 97-976-052(B). Mult. Co. Missing Person research area for drowning victim. Team: H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Reconfirmed location of body 300 feet off shore 100 feet from Burnside Bridge. Police recovered his remains right where said he was.
 
05-24-97 97-1001-078 (C). Cowlitz Co. Drowing Private response. Victim: Corinna Sofranko. Team: H. Oakes Overhead management. SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. ST Michelle Keating K-9-16. River lower 4 feet  than when drowning occured. Results: Located victim at PLS. 12 feet of water. Water now class 4.
 
08-10-97 97-1056-133(A). Mult. Co. Lost Child. Jessica Nicole Clark, (Victim). WFJ. age 4. Last seen wearing a yellow one piece bathing suit with "tweety Bird" in front and "Sylvester the cat" in back. She has dark blonde hair, blue eyes, 3 foot tall, 35 lbs. Missing from Sellwood Riverfront Park on the beach by the dock since approx. 1400Hrs. on 08-10-97. Search NONE K-9 Defection team was there with MCSO. They couldn’t find crap if they had to. We went in there and located the body in under 30 seconds with our own 2 dog teams. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. O. Gomez SAR Dog Buddy K-9-15. Angie Untiz ST#4. Results: Cleared areas. Both dogs alerted in water. PPB advised. Performed Grief Therapy for Mother. MCSO being unprofessional as usual. Refused to allow all available resources in immediately. We were called in by PPB.
They were really embarrassed (AGAIN) by our finding the body.
 
11-06-97 97-1108-185(B). Linn Co. Missing Child. Elijah Kelt Age 4. (Austistic). DLS: Monday. 0830Hrs. 11-03-97. Father Jerry Mother "Kathy" . Lived Riverside Dr. SW Albany, Oregon R/C from Jerry. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog "Valorie" K-9-1. Results: Tracked child to where "Valorie" K-9-1 and "Rusty" K-9-16 located victim doa under log debri and 4 feet of water. Divers recovered body right where our search dogs located it. Performed Grief therapy for I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Team members, sar dogs and victim's family. We found Eli after Linn Co. Sheriff refused our offers to assist. Sheriff cost the tax payers over $125,000 in their four day search efforts with bloodhounds, search dogs, helicopters, boats, divers. They didn’t find a thing. We found Eli in 30 minutes.
 
12-11-97 97-1127-204(C). Wash. Co. Missing Person. Saffa M. Nasir. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog "Valorie" K-9-1. Results: Meet with Private Investigator for the Saffa case at their Tigard office. They had 6 blue shop towels that Dennis used to clean up his van with. I put "Valorie" on each towel for victim id. She alerted on 3 of them. The search was video taped. We id the murder suspect through scent id. Police arrested and convicted suspect. Body later recovered. Suspect later convicted. Family gave us full credit for the findings.
 
02-06-98 98-1147-012(A). Tillamook Co. Missing Person. Karl Schomburg. Teams:H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. Pinpointed an area of death alerts along the steep rugged cliffs South of the PLS.  Rappelled down cliff, checked on areas of interests of the SAR Dogs from I.K.9.S.A.R.S. Thick brush. Foot prints found. Dogs continued to give death alerts in this area. Winds from the North North West. Friends of the victim advised.
 
02-25-98 98-1150-015 (C). Darke Co. Lynn Topp Missing Person. Lynn Topp.  SAR Dog Valorie and I went to Victim's families home. Joe Marylou Topp Rossburg, Oh.  Lynn's Parents. Obtained a scent article, Drove to nearby city PD ref: a wma who claimed he had Lynn for a satanic ritual. Did vehicle check for scent id on . No alerts. Went back to other areas of interests and cleared more areas. Definate death alerts in one area searched on a farm. Sheriff dug with a backhoe and recovered linns’ remains. Suspect had cut her face off, fingers off, poured gasoline on her, wrapped her in plastic, buried her five feet deep, put 20 feet of debris on top of the site and SAR Dog Valorie still found her remains. Good job valorie. Val found this little girls remains after local K-9 sar teams failed to find anything.
 
02-27-98 98- 1153-017 (A). Union City, Ohio, Missing Girl,  Scent id. Worked on another Homicide case and suspect id in Union City. Officer Bruce A. Jamison  West Water St. Piqua, Oh  Ref: Shaylene M. Farrell Age 18 WFA DLS: 08-08-94. 135 Lbs. 5 foot. Hazel eyes. Mother Darlene Farrell  Piqua, Oh  Met at 1715 Hrs. PU Scent article Prom dress in black plastic garbage bag. Mother stated it hadn't been washed. Worked search area. (See report). 3 areas of interests. Death alerts each area. Then did boot / shoe suspect id off of victim's scent article. Valorie id one pair of brown boots 3 times and one pair of black tennis shoes twice as positive hits. Police advised. 1750 Hrs. Did newspaper and tv interviews.
 
03-06-98 98-1152-016(F). Milan, Tennessee, Missing persons case. Fd. Researched and reconfirmed pond # 4. Middle Rd Pond. Death alerts. PD Advised. Divers searched and see report for findings. We found a body but not Casey's. Red Marron Pants, White T Shirt, Five Cinder Blocks with wire clothes line loop bindings still intact. Axe. Steel plates with bindings also. Skeleton remains believed to be human.
 
06-20-98 98-1209-073(A). Clark. Co. Missing Child. Kristy Duell, VPD Case# S-98-10137 Age 16.  Missing Child. RP: Marianna Kuhn Battleground, Wa. Missing Child: Marilee Snyder. VPD Case# S-98-10104 Age 16.  Missing Child. RP: Carole Browning  Loowit Loop,  Vanc. Wa. Missing Child: Tiffany Browning VPD Case# S-98-7419 Age 17.
Mrs. Burnett Vanc. Wa. Missing Child: Jessica Burnett VPD Case# S-98-10166 Age 15. Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Located suspect(s) who had drugged and raped these kids, kidnapped them to Mexico. We recovered all of the girls alive. Feds wouldn’t prosecute the bad guys. They stated,” The girls went willingly”. (I don’t think so).
 
06-28-98 98-1217-081 Clatsop. Co. Drowning Pacific Ocean Cannon Beach Haystack rock. Team: H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie, M. Keating SAR Dog Rusty/Murphy. Results: All 3 dogs gave death alerts off Haystack rock. CPD advised. 33 yo female missing from a suicide.
 
06-30-98 98-1220-084(A). Wash. Co. Nancy Hawkins private search for her daughter who is missing.  SARA Victoria Hawkins (Missing Child). Teams: H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. M. Keating SAR dog Rusty K-9-2. Results: We located her daughter alive. She had been drugged and kidnapped by an internet suspect.
 
09-20-98 98-1277-141 Skamania Co. Victim: J.Woldridge Portland, Ore. Hamilton Mtn. Trail. First Aid Brown Recluse Spider bite. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Pt LOC X 3. No < with Resp. Pulse > 120. Pearls. Skin normal. Admin. Benadryl tab. Lid. 2% on bite site. Topical ointment.
 
10-19-98 98-1291-155 Clack. Co. Missing Person. Laura Lee Hoyt. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Results: Minor alerts. Searched house and vehicles. We located her sleeping in a hospital intensive care ward with a patient she didn’t even know.
 
12-28-98 98-1314-178F Klamath Co. Missing child. Derrick Engebretson Case. We offered services to sheriff’s Dept. They refused. Family called us in privately after sheriff’s dept, K-9 SAR teams, blood hounds, helicoptes, failed to find anything. SAR Dog Valorie and I called in privately from family. SAR Dog Valorie and I worked the search area with the family present we found where Derricks tracks, where he slept under a log, crossed roads twice and fell through the frozen ice on Klamath lake. This photographed and documented by the family. This after three different search dog teams, blood hound teams, tracking teams and ground teams failed to find anything.
 
01-11-99 99-1328-005 Linn Co. Drowning. Victim's name Ryan Lee Willam Pitts age 13. Drowned Sat. 01-09-99. While duck hunting. boat tipped over, No pfds worn.Water Very COLD and SWIFT.Ryan attended Lebonan Middle School Did consult case.
 
02-20-99 99-1343-022(A). Jackson Co. Missing Person Victoria Kelly  Coleman Creek, Medford  Son missing (Thomas Erin Devine Kelly)  DLS: 01-26-99. PLS: Pioneer Rd. We flew down and determined he was dead.
 
03-06-99 99-1354-033(B). Clack. Co. Missing Person. David Francis Aszman. Drove on 03-06-99 0730Hrs. to PLS Sandy River. near Dodge Park. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Worked both sides from PLS Both sar dogs alerted 100 yards downstream. We then worked area search and found nothing. We then floated down to Oxbow in large raft. Water COLD. Both dogs also alerted 1/2 mile down stream in a deep section. Near where his kayak was recovered.
 
02-10-2000 2000-1566-028 (B). Clack. River RP: Vivian Almond ref: Lost son.  Team:H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Results: Took initial report. Obtained scent articles. Performed Grief Therapy. Went to victims home/work obtained more scent articles and wit. interviews. Went to PLS and did search. Found victim and his dog in water. Verified by K-9-2. M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi.
 
04-24-2000 2000-1618-080 (A). Adam Parr Mult Co. Missing Person. Team: H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Took initial report. Signed contracts, searched room, interviewed family and friends, called bank. Searched car. Met boat at Willamette Park 0700Hrs. Searched river. (Body recovered 05-02-2000 where our SAR dogs Alerted. Side scanning sonar used to locate victim along with dogs.
 
06-18-2000 2000-1651-113 (B). Linn Co. Lebonan, Ore. Ref: 17yo wmj drowning. RP: Rhonda Dival  "Sangster age 17, wmj, Linn County Sanderson Bridge South Santiam near Crabtree. John Sangster was swimming with two friends just before 3 p.m. when he was caught in a current, swept into a large eddy and went underwater about three miles upstream from Sanderson's Bridge, Linn County Sheriff Dave Burright reported. John is the son of Arlene Sangster of Albany, a cashier for Northwest Natural, and Rick Sangster of California. lived with his mother, stepgrandfather Glenn Gerdlund and  Gerdlund's friend in southwest Albany. Team:H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. Team: M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Pam Stanley ST1. Results: Drove team down to PLS, Located victim near PLS. Family advised.
 
 
07-24-2000 2000-1680-142(A). Criminal Complaint filed against Marty Neiman from Search One K-9 Detection team ref: telephone harrassment with Ore. Dept of Justice and DEM Oregon.
 
07-27-2000 2000-1682-144(A). Offered services to RCMP. Marcus McKay, an eight-year-old boy missing for four days in a remote part of Manitoba,  Darlene Dumas, who moved to Mallard, Manitoba, with her son two weeks ago from Winnipeg. Sergeant Craig Cochrane, the RCMP's Winnipegosis detachment commander. Marcus was hunting with his stepfather and several others on Saturday on the east shore of Waterhen Lake Northern Affairs Minister Eric Robinson. Waterhen General Store. Dauphin Friendship Centre, we determined what happened to child.
 
 
08-14-2000 Mon. Claudia Kirshoch case Jamaica. Did a track off Claudia's scent articles from Beaches resort Rm:621. FBI and Local JPD police with us. Tracked Claudia's most recent scent from her room, west to the ocean sandy beach area, into the water, then out of the water South East. Then south along the beach to Swept Away resort. Then East through Swept Away resort to the security gate to the public road where scent stopped on road. At this time Claudia got into a vehicle and left the area. There was no stress alerts in this area of the track so she was not afraid at the time she walked this route. Winds gusting from the North at 5-15MPH. Clear sky, warm. Searched homes. Searched Anthony's vehicle on Green Island. Home #1, belongs to Anthony Grant’s Mother. The vehicle is a White Toyota Corolla 4 door . SAR dog Valorie gave "MAJOR DEATH ALERTS" after being introduced to Claudia's scent articles. SAR Dog Valorie alerted in the back seat, trunk, and on a pair of leather, grey, vibram-soled hiking boots that were stored in the back of the Toyota. Anthony admitted they were his boots. The soles appeared to have yellow hard rocks imbedded in them. There were no grains of sand attached to the insole areas or inseam areas. The boots appeared to have been worn only once. This disputes Anthony’s statement that he wore them while on the sandy beach.SAR Dog Valorie also alerted on Claudia's scent on a cleaning brush located in the back of the car, and Val also alerted on the gray trunk liner. In Anthony's bedroom, Val alerted on a MAJOR DEATH ALERTS on a pair of soiled leather gloves and some clothing found by the FBI teams. These items seized by the FBI. NOTE: When I informed the FBI team that Anthony's boots needed to be taken into evidence. Anthony immediately picked up his boots and handed them to his mother and she immediately started walking away with them. I had the police stop her. She denies any knowledge of such an incident. The local police took Anthony to the local police department where we interviewed him. He repeatedly denied having any idea of what happened to Claudia. When asked about lying to the police and FBI agents repeatedly during their initial investigation and again while being given the polygraph examination, Anthony stated, "None of you know what you're talking about.” When I explained to Anthony how scent and scent evidence works, and how search dogs detect scent and the transfer of scent from one person to another person or another person’s clothing and vehicle, Anthony stated, "Your dog doesn't know what she's doing.” Then Anthony's attorney arrived on scene and we explained everything to him about how search dogs detect scent and the nature of scent. Anthony continued to deny any wrongdoing through his attorney. 08-16-2000 Wed. (R). Did a retrack of Claudia's route from Beaches Hotel Rm# 621. Val did same track ending up at same location along the main road in front of Swept Away Resort. We then searched pumphouse areas #5 and #2. Numerous public and private beaches. In the Longbeach area, SAR dog Valorie started giving alerts along a treed area in the public beach. Nothing found. SAR Dog Valorie then started giving strong alerts into the water by airscenting. Winds from the NW at 10MPH. Searched ocean from Beaches Resort North to alerts located in the ocean. SAR Dog Valorie alerted to scent from Claudia in the ocean. In inspecting the areas up to BBQ Island, there were no physical findings of any human remains. Met with Det. Calbert Bowen from Jamaican Police. He took statement ref; our searches, search history. Dinner with Calbert, Fred, Mary Anne. Dr. Foote met with Val and I inspected Valorie. (FBI Forensics confirmed Val’s findings). Suspects attorney later told the media that, “Harry lied to the police and to his client”. THE FBI FINDINGS SAY OTHERWISE. Search dogs and evidence don’t know how to lie.
 
11-17-2000 2000-1753-215(B). Coos Co. Missing Bow Hunter 46 yo Chris Lapping. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Drove to Medford. PU Scent articles, signed contract, interviewed Dawn, searched home/garage, premises, property and vehicles. Then drove down to Roseburg and met Teri and family. Drove to search site on Burnt Mtn. Set up camp. Searched crash site.PU track heading SE f/ Cliff elk trail. Determined he was dead in the area. Remains in coyote feces.
 
12-16-2000 2000-1761-223 (A). Missing Person. Clark Co Andrew John Allinger  NE Mattson Rd. Brush Prairie, Wa  Date Last Seen: 12-15-2000  Walk up the road goes 3-4 miles. AlderBrook. 5 miles. Team:H.Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: tracked missing person to where he got picked up. CCSO and SKSAR and SSSAR on scene.  I then checked the pls Bank in BG and confirmed he was there. Family advised. Family called. They received a letter in pm, Andrew walked and rode exactly where Val tracked. He’s OK up in Seattle, Wa.
 
02-18-2001 2001-1793-024(A). Clack. Missing Person Ken Bowlsby SARM. Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1.  SE Johnson Creek Blvd. Portland, Oregon. Milw. Ore. 97222. Results: Ken located in Providence Milw. Hospital.
 
06-27-2001 2001-1886-117 (A). St. Croix. Missing Police Officer Wendell Williams. CPD. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Flew to St. Croix for SARM. Missing Police Officer.  Search various areas for Police. Val alerted in Ocean near Hay beach. Police advised. Water search conducted.
 
11-12-2001 2001-2019-250(B). Clark. Co. Missing altz pt Mr. Earl Sexton Met at victim's residence. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1.  M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Results: We located where his body was in Washugal River. CCSO and family advised.
 
12-01-2001 2001-2031-262(B). Tillamook Co. Missing Persons. Eugene H. Hyatt, 18, Kami L. Vollendroff, 16. Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results. Drove to Depot Bay Boiler Bay winds f/ SW 70mph raining hard. Val gave death alerts in the bay.
 
03-15-2002 2002-2146-076(H). Clack. Missing Child Ashley Pond. Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results:Searched Wards property. Made contact with Lori from the ptld FBI, did interview with Don and his wife (lori's step dad and mother). Checked library records, talked with neighbors. Did search down in creek. Did interview with AP reporter. Results: See report.  (I believe ashley's remains are under wards poured cement. I advised the FBI). Aug. 2002 FBI Finally dug up the concrete. SAR Dog Valorie was correct. Ashley was stuffed inside a 50 gal barrel. Four feet down under concrete slab. Val was the only search dog of the 14 they had search wards  property that located where Ashley was. Miranda Gaddis was in the freezer in the kitchen. FBI refused to acknowledge we found Ashley. We went public four days before they dug Ashley up and told the media where her body was. We were right.
 
03-20-2002 2002-2146-076(I). Clack. Missing Child Ashley Pond. Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results:Searched Hwy 213 and found two femur bones in canyon below hiway. Took them to hospital and orthopedics verified these were human. (Fresh Human). Turned them in along with reports, photos on cd and hair that we recovered the other day to Oregon City PD MK and Y find human hair inside coyote poop. All given to OCPD property officer. PD never gave us credit for finding a 3rd body. (Dateline MSNBC proved we were telling the truth) on their story “Into thin air” aired Jan 2006.
 
10-18-2002 2002-2404-333(D). SHAWN DAMIAN HORNBECK Team:H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Flew to Missouri and worked SARM. Did initial interview, gathered scent items. Did night SARM Track. Cleared areas. Located site where he was kidnapped. Did cisd cism w/ Family. Shawn found alive 01-12-07 with his abductor.
 
12-18-2002 2002-2575-403(D). SARM SP Dom. Republic. Sean Clinton Stover. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Sent them telephone message and email consult. Worked on logistics. Flew to Dom. Republic. Met w/ Stovers in Philiy and we flew to Dom.Repub. Then looked at Hospital and city morgue for their son, sean. Then drove 6 hours West towards SAR Area. Airlines lost my luggage. Did search. Val located Sean's death site. He had been killed by a crocodile.
 
07-25-03 2003-2863-172(D). Nappa Co. Drowning Lake Berryessa, Ca. Napa, Ca.Victim: Jose Louis Ramos Went to PLS with Ezmeralda and her husband, val and I 1000 feet off shore line of island 60MN 125f of water. Val’s first alert. 1500’ out at 60D MN val went nutso. Informed Sheriff and other side scanning sonar person involved. Val’s 3rd alert at 500’off shoreline 60MN. Diagramed area. Debriefed NCSO, Ezmeralda.
 
08-16-03 2003-2888-198(A). Missing Climber. Fred Freaun case. Clack. Co. Mt Hood. I went to PU Brandon for SARM and he never answered the door nor the telephone. He later called me and stated “he was in the shower”. I climbed to Ill. Rock area. Val and I rode the chair lift up and back and  did search in crevasse while K-9-3 JR and Mocha and K-9-7 C and Ogen did canyon sar. Found where body is stuck in crevasse at 9500 foot level. Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. J.R. SAR dog Mocha K-9-3. CM SAR Dog Oden K-9-7.
 
08-30-03 2003-2899-209(B). Coos Co. Death Investigation reopened. Chris Lapping. See 11-19-2000 2000-1753-215(D). RP Jim Lapping  Terri Mother Teams :H. Oakes SAR dog Valorie K-9-1. C, Umphrey’s SAR Dog K-9-7. Results:Drove to sight, hiked in, determined it was a suicide. Family advised
 
02-04-04 2004-3057-026(C). Lost person. Mexico. RP: Jim Vos Vanc. BC.San Jose Del Calbo Cabo San Lucas. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Worked early am search in Arroyo area, then night search in desert and ocean. Did water search. Val alerted in specific area. Police notified.



07-07-04 St. Croix USVI 2004-3179-154(A). Body Recovery (old human bones)  Worked SAR Dog Valorie on actual cadaver area search. Hwy 70 near 707. Unearthed soccer field. Located death site of a human and some bone fragments. All items diagramed, photographed. Took Bones to Gov. Juan Luis Hospital pathologist. He confirmed they were human bones. Turned over to police.
 
07-11-04 St. Croix USVI  2004-3180-155(A). Found Human Remains. Teams: H. Oakes J. Russell. St. Croix USVI K-9 teams. Hwy 70-707 area. All K-9 teams did tight Type 3 grid search and found fresh human  bones, schrunchee and chewed up shirt button up type turned over to VIPD forensics.
 
11-15-04 2004-3243-243(E). Clark. Co. Wash. Carolyn Killaby Search. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1.  M. Keating SAR Dog Yogi K-9-2. Results; Found some human remains.
01-06-05 2005-3349-006(B).. Lost person  Herminder Sidhu  Hwy 1 Rock Climbing. Moss Beach. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1.Results: Tracked Herminder where he fell to his death on the south side into the Ocean.
 
02-27-05 2005-3405-063(A). Pierce Co. S.O. Drownings x 2. Lake Kapowsin Thomas Johnson age 26. (Missing presumed drowned).  Kenneth Brisby, 26. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. J. Russell SAR Dog Mocha K-9-3. Results: Located both subjects whereabouts in water in front of their family and friends. S.O. Advised. Police ignored our findings. Victims surfaced where we flagged. Family gave us full credit for the findings. Shame on Pierce County.
 
06-21-05 2005-3520-176(A). Marion Co. Missing 15 yo. Scott Spansel Jr. Wallace Marine Park. Salem, Ore. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Drove to Salem, did search. Located victim's position in large pond in Wallace park. Police and family advised. The next day (Wed) an Ore. STATE CERTIFIED CADAVER DOG TEAM was brought in and they failed to find anything in front of the victims family, friends and law enforcement. The victim’s body floated up 3 feet from where I put my flagging in the pond. Again we're right and the state of Oregon has failed the families. The detective suppressed the mothers written press release giving us full credit for finding her son.
 
07-12-05 2005-3548-202(A). Lake Berryessa, Ca. Drowning. Victim: Kellie Forristall Did telephone consult. Victim’s boyfriend located her remains after doing what I suggested to find her.
 
07-31-05 2005-3572-226. Clack. Co. Missing person Carlos Rubio.  Teams; H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. C. Umphrey’s SAR Dog Thor K-9-7. Results: Found victim’s right shoe, bloody cling, tied balloon and nylon cord. All items photographed and flagged. This after local search dog teams and ground search teams failed to find anything.
 
 
09-09-05 2005-3572-226(P). Clack. Co. Death investigation.  Re:Carlos Rubio SARM Teams: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. J. Russell SAR Dog Mocha K-9-3. Results: Drove to 4220 Rd. Hiked into location where body was recoverd. Located game stalking overslippers which explains how Carlo’s shoes were so clean. Found remains in bear feces. Debriefing with family.
 
09-20-05 2005-3614-268(A). Klamath Falls Medford Ore. TV producer Re: A. Pond Case. Bishop, Shane (NBC Universal)" <Shane.Bishop@nbcuni.comMr. Oakes, I am an NBC News producer working on a story about the deaths of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis. Your name and story appears in a new book by Linda O'Neal. It looks to me as if authorities could have found these girls 5 months earlier if they'd listened to you.. Thanks Shane Bishop Producer Dateline NBC 541-899-0201 Office 917-841-8893.
 
11-01-05 2005-3654-306(A). Clack. Co. Ashley Pond Interview w/ MSNBC Clackamas Park. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Did interview re: Pond case.
 
11-01-05 2005-3654-306(B). Clack. Co. Ashley Pond Interview w/ MSNBC Lake Sacajewa Park. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Did more film shoot with MSNBC re: Pond case.
 
02-07-06 2006-3744-034(A). Tillamook Co. Drownings x 3. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: UCSG recovered one near Twin Rocks. Jeff King, 30, of Garabaldi, The captain and owner of the vessel, Craig L. Larsen, 32, of Warrenton, and crew member Trona B. Griffin, 30, also of Garabaldi, are still missing. SAR Dog Valorie located one of the remaining missing near the debris pile boat, North of Tillamook Jetty. USCG Tillamook and Garabaldi stations advised.
 
07-30-06 2006-3988-277(D). Lost climber RP: Missing Jon Francis Stillwater Saw Tooth Mountain Ranger Idaho. Team; H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: did all night search. Stayed on the mtn all night long searching. Val indicated death alert from South. Family advised. Our findings were documented and turned over to the family, Police, Governor’s office and USFS.
 
09-21-06 2006-4078-378(A). Missing person Cyn Dee (Cynthia) Maurer Height: 5'10" Weight: 160lbs Eyes: Brown Age: 50 Last Seen: Sept 19th 9:30pm - Silver Honda Accord 2005 4-Door. Heading to Barnes & Noble Walnut Creek from Dublin. Results: Offered our assistance. Sent overhead management information.
 
 
10-25-06 2006-4128-428(D). Crater Lake, Ore. Missing child. Samuel Boehlke  Cleetwood Cover area. Portland, Ore. 97221. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. Results: Drove to Crater Lake, Did search for Sam. Val tracked SARM and located where he was dead. Possible cougar. Also located what appeared to be two strands of human hair in predator feces. Park Ranger given hair for evidence. Family advised.
 
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08-01-07 2007-4616-371(A). St. Paul Minn. Bridge Collapse. Team: H. Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. SAR Dog Willow K-9-1A. Results: Sent contract. And SAR search overhead management letter.
 
09-25-07 2007-4716-481(B). Pierce Co. Drowning. Silver Lake Wa. 1500Hrs. R/c f client requesting search dogs for tomorrow. I brief father William Bengilley Sr. on how we work, what to expect, how to collect a scent article. His son was fishing and drowned last Fri. Local SAR teams, divers and SAR Dogs failed to find his sons remains. Son age 25. Results: Drove to scene. Did search. 0715 started. 0800Hrs. Debriefed family. Father with me when we located the site where his son’s remains were in the water.
10-04-07 2007-4734-498(A). Lake Co. Ca. Drowning. RP: Jennifer Z and Mike (father) Z. Re: Matt Z. Drowned at Clear Lake, Cal Windsor, Ca. Kelseyville. Did telephone consult. Subject located dead.
 
01-03-08 2008-4884-004(A). Missing person GA Meredith Emerson. 34°44′23″N 83°56′14″W Blood Mtn.  Union County SO.
 Sheriff Blairsville, Georgia Meredith Emerson, 24, Results: Did consult work.
 
02-02-08 2008-4939-059(A). Reno, Nv  Briana Denison Missing 19 yo woman Did consult work.
 
03-03-08 2008-4998-118(A). Tulsa OK. Missing Child. RP: Vickey Maroon Tulsa, OK  for Corie Baker age 13, Tulsa Nov. 9, 08. Picked up after school from sister’s boyfriend, he’s in jail, not talking. (did consult case).
 
06-04-08 2008-5181-299(A). Clatsop Co. Airplane Crash. RP: Private person John Wage Rd Seaside, Ore. Wit. Plane crash. Team: H Oakes SAR Dog Valorie K-9-1. SAR Dog Willow K-9-1A. Results: Drove to scene. Did search. Returned home. Wrote report on our findings. Sent copy to US Coast Guard and Clatsop Co. Sheriff’s Dept.
 
06-10-08 2008-5193-311(A). Missing Person. RP: eloisa Palisoc" lost daughter name angel p bernaldo.
 
08-07-08 2008-5354-473(A). Mult Co. RP: Keating. Re: Aunt missing Demensia. Rcvd call 1218hrs. 07-07-08 Fran went on a walkabout for 3 hours and ended up a few blocks away at Rose Schnitzer old people place. You can use the same address for Fran and Jane. They said that the police used their dog to search. They couldn’t find anything. She wound up in the place next to the large grassy area due west of A. Alpenrose Dairy area. Results: Canceled while in route. Missing person located at another care facility having lunch with her ex husband.
 
08-12-08 2008-5361-480(A). Plano, Tx. RP: Subject: 13 year. old and her dog missing in plano tx A friend’s 13 yr. old daughter and family dog have been missing since last night. Girl went our to walk the dog in front of home at approx. 10:25 (per cell phone info). Never came home. 11 registered sex offenders registered within 1 mile of her home. Police will not issue an Amber alert b/c she ran away last Nov. But last night she was barefooted and in her PJ and spoke with a friend to make plans for Monday ( today). Results: Did telephone consult.
 
08-13-08 2008-5367-486(A). Missing person Kent, Ohio. Brain injury. KENT, Ohio. August 13, 2008. Brett Preston was last seen leaving his home on Hudson Drive in Kent, OH on foot. He was wearing a t-shirt, shorts and flip-flop shoes. He has no ID, no car, no money, no credit cards and no cellphone. Preston is brand new to the area and has no friends or family here. Results: Did telephone consult.
 
08-14-08 2008-5368-487(A). Medical Assistance Service Dog Regarding Seizures. Kim Marrow Camano Island, Wa
09-11-08 2008-5427-548(A). Hollywood, Florida  Caylee search. Contacted: Orange County Sheriff's Department Offered services.
10-28-08 2008-5529-638(A). Sherwood, Ore. Missing 15 yo. Received call from Annette Tillberg (Sister in law). Regarding child missing Santiago Trejo Sherwood, Ore. Did email and telephone consult.  
 
11-22-08 2008-55-89-699(A). Col. Co. Suiside, drowning. C&E Thurston DLS Last wed SS Beach Sauvies Island Aaron Fernando Thurston Age 31 Veh. 2003 Mitsu bi. Burgundy. Results:  Did telephone consult.









 
02-06-09 5711-071(A). Clark Co. Missing person. J D R age 33,
 
03-02-09 2009-5737-097(C). Missing person Hebo, Ore. Z Brown Results: Drove down. 0845Hrs. Arrived 1135hrs. Met w/ family. Obtained missing persons profile. Obtained scent articles. Shoes. Photographed veh. Room, search areas. Conducted searches. Debriefed family. Zach’s death scent in Nestucca River.
 
03-03-09 5755-115(A). Cowlitz Co. Missing Person F McCoy. Results: Met w/ Relatives. Obtained contract, Obtained scent article. Did search. 03-10-09. Subject floated up in Lake Sacajewea right where SAR Dog’s Willow and Tyler tracked him to.
 
03-15-09 Re: 02-20-09 5737-097(C). Missing person Hebo, Ore. Zach Brown Results: Did research of boat ramp at Cloverdale and Hebo. Both dogs did exact same death alerts at down stream from Hebo boat ramp down to Cloverdale. Victim surfaced where my search dogs indicated he was.
 
04-07-09 5809-169(A).  Missing child Spokane, Wa. Did consult.
04-10-09 5814-174(A). Suicide Portland, Oregon J G F Did search. Located death site. Family advised.
04-10-09 5816-176(A). Clark Co. Missing 17 yo. (Cold case homicide). Jamie Grishim.
04-13-09 5814-174(B). Portland, Oregon. Missing persons case Juan Garcia Francisco Did a second search with ST Laurie McQuary. Located death site at same location. Family advised.  Mon, 7/13/09, MIKKI PATE <mikkip2@hotmail.com> wrote: From: MIKKI PATE mikkip2@hotmail.com Subject: HI harry just wanted you to know Juans body was found To: "harry98632@yahoo.com" harry98632@yahoo.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:37 PM HI harry just wanted you to know Juans body was found washed up right were the dogs were, Francisco is headed up there to pick up his ashes. again thank you for all your extra help you did for us.Mikki Pate
 
04-24-09 5833-193(A). Cowlitz Co. Filming for KPTV Ch# 12. Kim Singer. Spent from 1100Hrs. to 1600hrs. W/ Kim Singer and camera man. Did filming.
05-05-09 re: 04-10-09 5816-176(B). Clark Co. Missing 17 yo. (Cold case homicide). Jamie Grishim. Drove to E. Clark Co. Did search. Located one grave possible site. Clark Co. S.O. advised.
 
05-06-09 5846-206(A) Missing child MO. Joshua Childers The blond toddler, about 3 feet tall and weighing 35 pounds, was wearing a dark blue shirt and a pull-up diaper when he left his house through the back door around 11:30 a.m. His parents searched for about 45 minutes before calling authorities.Madison County Sheriff . Results; Did consulting on this case with family members. Child found alive.
 
06-15-09 5816-176(C). Clark Co. Missing 17 yo. (Cold case homicide). Jamie Grishim. RP: Starr Grishim. Results: Drove to E. Clark Co. Did research. Relocated one possible site.
 
06-23-09 06-12-09 5928-288(B). Missing persons (Tennesse). Lisa Maxwell Morristown, Tn.
Did consult work on this case.
 
06-29-09 re: 06-23-09 06-12-09 5928-288(B). Missing persons (Tennesse). Sent team in from Ky.
 
07-02-09 Re: 06-28-09 5963-323(B). Missing child. Gray’s Harbor Co. Wa. Lindsey Baum McCleary, Wa. Age 10. Sent my search report to FBI and McCleary City PD.
 
07-09-09 5978-338(A). Missing person Missouri. RP: Kim Reed Simpson County, Mississippi. AUNT IS MISSING. Did consult work.
 
7/13/09, MIKKI PATE <mikkip2@hotmail.com> wrote: Subject: HI harry just wanted you to know Juans body was found... To: "harry98632@yahoo.com" <harry98632@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:37 PM HI harry just wanted you to know Juans body was found washed up right where your search dogs said he was in the water. Francisco is headed up there to pick up his ashes.
again thank you for all your extra help you did for us. Mikki Pate
 
07-19-09 6001-361(B). Hood River, Ore. Missing person. Hood River, Ore. 49 yo wfa, 5’ 06” 127lbs. Hair gray short 1” no eye glasses, or contacts. Cancer Survivor. Size shoes 8, grey shorts, blue tank top. Last seen 0900hrs. Going for a walk. Results: 0200hrs. Drove to HR. Did search. Found her alive in 2 minutes. She was located in unattached storage shed/garage. Family advised to transport her to hospital.

6248-014(A). 01-10 through 01-20-2010 Capital Haiti. Earthquake. Teams: Harry Oakes SAR Dog Willow K-9-1.  Sent request to respond to UN. Missing person. Diane Caves  Hotel Montana, Rue Franck Cardozo – 6119. Port of Prince. # 220. Overlooking the pool.
 
6310-076(A). 03-01 Chile earthquake. Worked as consultant. 
6332-098(B). 03-12 Skam Co. Missing hiker. Katherine Heuther Results: Drove to scene. Did recon of area. All 3 dogs gave death alerts from SW table Mtn area. Sk Co SO Advised. Persons unknown attempted to kill us by rolling two large bolders down on top of our search teams. We believe it was one of the search teams in the area. Victims Body recovered after two civilians located victim in original search area on their own. Father and son team.
 
6340-106(A). 03-17 Thurston Co. Missing persons Shantina Smiley Azriel Carver Silverdale Wa age 8 All 3 sar dogs alerted in water. Found one foot print. Size 7” x 2-1/2” left tennis shoe. Lt from SO advised. Child recovered doa fox island. Dogs were 100% accurate in their alerts.
 
6350-116(A). 03-25 King Co. Missing peson. Steve Thomas Did consult.
 
6394-160(A). 05-03 LA Ca missing person Sui Fung Lew, went missing today, 5/2/10. I worked as consultant for the family. Subject found alive.
 
6415-181(A). 05-12 Missing Person Bend, Ore. Justin Burkhart Bend Oregon Subject recovered dead in river.
 
6454-220(A) 06-01 Castle Rock, Wa. Missing person GT M age (16) Located child alive at Mall.