Santa Cruz - Stranger Than Fucking Paradise, part II

By RAMONA TURNER

Sentinel staff writer

SANTA CRUZ — Marshall Doud has been found and is home with his family.

"We’ve got him," said John Ledwith, a friend who was helping in the search.
Doud, a 37-year-old father of three, went missing Wednesday at Seagate Technologies in Scotts Valley.
That was the day he was supposed to have met his then-10-year-old daughter to go surfing. The girl and her twin brother turned 11 Saturday, when their father was nowhere to be found.
Doud’s 1994 bright blue Dodge Dakota pickup truck was found around 3:15 p.m. Sunday near the Gianelli Cabin trail in Tuolomne County’s Emigrant Wilderness, which is part of the Stanislaus National Forest. The forest is bordered by Yosemite, about 140 miles east of San Francisco and 50 miles south of Lake Tahoe.
The discovery of Doud’s truck sparked the formation of a search-and-rescue team, which, about 30 minutes later, led Doud out of the woods.
He appeared to be uninjured.
"He’s cold, tired and hungry and wanted to talk to his family," Ledwith said.
Family members could not be reached for comment.
When Doud failed to come home Wednesday, family and friends feared the worst — that maybe his truck went off the road somewhere between the family home in Seabright and his job as a technology manager at Seagate in Scotts Valley.
The thought crossed their minds because Doud was last seen around noon Wednesday, leaving his workplace of the last three years. Knowing that he preferred driving the backroads to tackling Highway 17, a local search team checked the backroads that link the coast with the valley.

When there was no trace of him, Doud’s wife reported him missing around 1:30 a.m. Thursday.
But the search took a different turn when police discovered that his credit card was used to buy camping equipment and maps of the Emigrant Pass and Yosemite areas, Ledwith said in a previous interview.
Upon Doud’s rescue, he was taken to the local ranger station, where he was able to speak with his wife on the telephone. The content of that discussion was not disclosed.
Doud was expected to return home Sunday evening with friends who were participating in the rescue process.
"This was a huge community effort that several people participated in to help out a solid family in Santa Cruz," Ledwith said.
While his family and friends are celebrating his return, there is no word on why he left, Ledwith said.
"This was extremely out of character for him," Ledwith said. "He is a family man, a regular Joe, the salt of the earth."

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