Karen Margaret Kincaid, 58, was last seen on the afternoon of October 3, 2002, at the Safeway on Northeast Stephens Street in the Metz Hill area. At the time she lived alone in a small cabin on Sparks Road in Oakland, Oregon, and was described as having red hair and brown eyes. Her disappearance was initially thought by some to be voluntary, possibly related to a recent divorce, but no contact followed and that theory gave way to concern he may have been harmed.

Karen’s neutered male Pomeranian Pippen also vanished; her other pets, a cat and a bird, were left behind in the cabin, which relatives say was out of character. She may have been experiencing depression and had a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office classifies her as an endangered missing person and investigators consider foul play a possibility.

Did anyone in the Metz Hill or Oakland areas see Karen or Pippen around October 3, 2002, or know where Pippen might have been taken?