Friends and family of missing Christina Murphy have been putting efforts into finding her. Her vehicle has been found in Kern River near Lake Isabella!
Key Takeaways
- Christina Murphy has gone missing and was last seen by her friends on July 22.
- Her car was found around 8 to 10 feet under the Kern River.
- Murphy was a nurse at the Kern Hospital.
Christina Murphy Is Yet Not Found
Christina Murphy is a nurse at the Kern Hospital in Mount Vernon Ave, Bakersfield.
She had gone missing since July 22. Her friends located her car a little before she disappeared.
In the south of Elizabeth Norris Road, Murphy’s car was at the Kern River off of the178 the last her friends spotted it.
Christina had gone missing a little while before they found her car.
A shocked friend, Cherish Mckinney, says,
“I was in shock honestly, I was like, ‘No, no way,’ I was in denial. When I did get here I was in denial, I was just devastated.”
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She added,
“Christina was hilarious. She was the best nurse, the most compassionate nurse.”
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Shortly after her disappearance, a worried group of Christina’s friends went looking for her.
Kern County’s Sheriff had also been informed about the missing case, and he was just as actively involved in looking for Murphy.
According to the lost nurse’s friend Stephanie Young Esparza, the Sheriff had been aware of the whole incident.
But, as soon as he got to know that the missing person’s car had been submerged inside the Kern River, he told everyone that removing it would be rather unsafe.
Her friends were in denial as to how Christina went missing and where she must be as of now.
Christina Murphy May Be Inside The Water
There has been no confirmation of whether she is alive or not.
Moreover, after her friends started demanding answers about the incident, no authority figure was in the picture besides the Sheriff.
It was a team from Adventures With a Purpose who had rushed to the Kern River, helping the perplexed friends look for an answer along with the lost car.
The founder of Adventures With a Purpose, Jared Leisek, has been helping solve missing cases across the United States.
His team is having just as much of an expertise in finding missing cars, as was the case in the missing of Christina Murphy.
Jared said,
“We are an underwater search and recovery dive team so we start topside with sonar, with boats is how we normally start the search, and once we identify that there might be a target underwater, then we’ll dive down and see if it’s the target we are looking for.”
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The car was found at least 8 to 10 feet deep inside the Kern River.
When the team found Christina’s car, the windows had been broken down.
However, Leisek did not look deeper into the car for an investigation as it is up to the local law enforcement to do it.
While he left the car as it was, just like one would at any crime scene, he had also been warned not to remove the car with his own gears.
Instead, the car has now been assigned as KCSO’s responsibility.
By the time they found the lost vehicle, there had been ferns and algae on it, suggesting a long duration of it being inside the water.
The authorities have denied investigation until a licensed body takes charge of the missing case.
Christina’s friends are heartbroken, and it is not just them but also her family who believe that she is still in the water.
KCSO Team And Kern County Sheriff’s Involvement In The Missing Case
The KCSO search team had to remove the car by Tuesday. But, the local law reinforcement had left early leaving the car under the river as is.
Many had waited for the car by the Kern River and were shocked at the authorities’ changed decision.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office released a notice:
“On July 23, 2024, Kern County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue (SAR) Teams responded to the Kern River near Hwy 178 for a possible submerged vehicle. SAR deployed a drone,cameras, and vessels to determine if there were any occupants in the vehicle.
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Due to clarity of water, unsafe water conditions, and high-water levels SAR was unable to complete the recovery or determine if any occupants were in the vehicle.
SAR has been out to the location weekly to check the depth and flow of water, but CFS (cubic feet per second) has been too high. Due to the dangerous conditions, the divers were not able to conduct a recovery mission.
SAR has been in regular contact with the water master from the Army Corps to monitor water levels until it is acceptable for a dive team to go in safely.
Today, September 10, 2024, SAR divers evaluated the vehicle and determined it is still too dangerous of a mission for our divers.
As soon as conditions improve, and divers can safely enter the water, SAR will make efforts to recover the vehicle.”
Furthemore, Murphy’s brother, Cameron Patterson, says,
“Kinda wild i find myself watching a youtube video about my own sister. But i will say even though i havent talked to josh in a while im pretty sure he left the Sheriffs office a while ago and when he requested them to tow it out they told him that they couldnt because of the fires that had been going on. But i will say we have had little to no information regarding my sister. My mother and other siblings have been wondering what’s going on. Thanks for the update.”
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In Case You Didn’t Know
- Kern Hospital, the workplace of Christina Murphy, was founded in 1867.
- The Kern River was previously called Río de San Felipe and later La Porciúncula.
- The river where Murphy’s vehicle was found is not safe to swim.
