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The original was posted on /r/unresolvedmysteries by /u/AlfredTheJones on 2024-01-12 20:29:55+00:00.
Hello everyone! As always' I'd like to thank everyone for your comments and votes on my previous post about Ildar Rakhmatulin! I hope that he will be found soon and his family will know the answers.
Today I'd like to bring up a very recent and suspicious disappearance case.
BACKGROUND
Mikayla Standridge-Martone, also known as Mikayla M. Gamble, was 25 when she went missing from Concrete, Washington, USA.
Mikayla didn't have the best start in life- her parents weren't very present; Instead, she was raised by two aunts and grandparents. She also had a brother.
She had a two year old son named Madden.
Mikayla's aunt, Mardi Martone, described her as "(A) bright light who can make anyone smile" and "(She) always wants to laugh; Always wants to help people. She’ll call you out of the blue just to say hi.(...)She’s a beautiful girl and ran into the wrong people".
DISAPPEARANCE
On the 16th of April, Mikayla posted a rather ominous message on her social media: "If I ever go missing or anything just know I didn’t leave".
At around 3 a.m of the 21st of April, Mikayla was calling her brother and father and asked them to pick her up- her brother's car broke down, but her father promised to pick her up a bit later; Her aunt said that she was in a "dangerous situation".
Mikayla was last seen at 5:04 a.m at Skagit View Drive in Concrete. She was seen running out of a house she was staying at and screaming "help", according to Mardi Martone. Mikayla called 911, but she quickly hung up, and the dispatcher was unable to reach her- but they've heard that Mikayla was screaming and calling for help. Seventeen minutes later, Mikayla's phone called her father, but he didn't pick up because he was showering.
When the police searched the neighbourhood after they've been sent there by the dispacher, Mikayla was nowhere to be found. A neighbour who was interviewed on a later date also confirmed that he heard Mikayla's screams earlier.
Her boyfriend, who was also staying at the house Mikayla ran out of, allegedly had three stories about what happened to Mikayla- she ran out of the house barefoot and he didn't go after her, or that she ran out, he ran after her and then heard the car take off, or that he saw a silver car take off.
In the later morning of the 21st, Mardi Martone recieved a call from her brother, Mikayla's father- he came to pick her up but couldn't reach her, and asked Martone if she seen Mikayla or heard from her.
Autorities knew Mikayla and her boyfriend very well. The area was searched, but the police didn't interview people living in the houses nearby- they only did it on the 24th. The house Mikayla ran out of was searched a week later; Mikayla's boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, a professional cleaner, was staying there at the time.
Mikayla's phone was found in the bushes three weeks later at the bank of Skagit river, near to where she placed the distressing call, around the 24th- but Martone is convinced that the phone was planted by someone else. The nearby Skagit river was searched by two boats, a drone and helicopter for a few days only after the phone was found, but no clues have been found.
CONCLUSION
It's concerning that Mikayla was allegedly involved with "wrong people", like her aunt said; To me, this would be an euphemism for addicts, likely drug addicts. I couldn't find any info on if Mikayla was addicted or took drugs, but if I'm right and she also took them, then there's a chance that Mikayla might've gotten paranoid, ran out of the house and something might've happened to her, maybe someone took advantage of her or some accident happened. The message she posted on her social media seems to imply that someone was threatning her- maybe she was in debt to someone?
Her boyfriend's casual behavior over his girlfriend's clearly bad mental state is concernig, to say the least; Given that he and Mikayla were "known" to the police, their situation was "violent" and how Mikayla was trying to find someone to give her a ride out of there, I wouldn't be suprised if domestic violence was involved. Perhaps the boyfriend threatened Mikayla or attacked her, causing her to run off. Or maybe he went after her after all, only to kill her- the message on her social media might imply that he was threatning to kill her before. The fact that his ex, who was a professional house cleaner, was at the house when the police was searching it might mean something or it might mean nothing.
I feel like the car is most likely not real; I think that the neighbours would hear anything and mention it. There is always a chance that Mikayla was taken in a car, but I'd say that it's unlikely.
There's also a possibility that Mikayla fell into the Skagit river after all and drowned, and her body wasn't found. Bodies often get missed during searches in rivers for different reasons.
When she went missing, Mikayla Standridge-Martone was 25 and is now 26. She's white, 5' 2" (62 inch / 157 cm), 90-100 pounds (40- 45 kg), with blue eyes and dyed pink hair (naturally blonde; It's noted that she often dyes her hair in different colors). If you have any info about Mikayla's disappearance, call the Skagit County Sheriff's Office at 360-428-3211.
SOURCES:
Mikayla's websleuths.com thread