Search Underway in 2 Counties for Woman

Law enforcement officials in two counties are searching for a Pasadena woman who has been missing for more than a week.

Elizabeth Whiting, 66, was scheduled to leave her home on the morning of June 30 to drive to a family vacation home at Shaver Lake in Fresno County. After she failed to arrive, a nephew checked her apartment, found that she wasn’t home, and called police.

Since then, police said, there has been no trace of Whiting, who is known to have had transient ischemic attacks, or mini-strokes.

“This is such a mystery for us,” said Janet Pope, a spokeswoman for the Pasadena Police Department, which is coordinating a search effort with the California Highway Patrol, Fresno Police Department and Fresno County Sheriff’s Department. “We have nothing to go on.”

Family members and police have searched for Whiting along the route from Pasadena to Shaver Lake by airplane and helicopter. Family members walked and rode the roads leading to Shaver Lake, Pope said, but turned up no sign of her.

Whiting was last seen on June 29 at a La Canada Flintridge sporting goods store. She spoke with relatives when she got home, family members said, and told them that she would be leaving early the next morning for the cabin so that she could arrive before dark.

Her credit cards have not been used since then, they said, nor has her cell phone.

Pope said investigators do not believe foul play is involved in Whiting’s disappearance. “She was planning this trip, we know she left for the trip, and we have traced her using bloodhounds to the freeway onramp,” Pope said.

Whiting is described as 5 feet 5, 145 pounds, with brown eyes and gray hair. She was driving a black Nissan Maxima with California license plates 4FZH387.

Anyone who may have seen Whiting or her vehicle is asked to call Pasadena police at (626) 744-4241.