Mary Dawn Wilson, 69, was last seen the morning of July 12, 2022, near Healy, Alaska, while caring for a friend’s two-year-old child. Relatives say they considered her the child’s grandmother. Two days later her Ford Focus was found abandoned and stuck about 6.8 miles down the remote Stampede Trail. The locked car contained the child, who was alive and in good health and believed to have been in the vehicle about two days.

Evidence indicates Wilson left the car to seek help after it became stuck. Personal items were found roughly a mile farther down the trail, near the 7.8-mile marker, prompting an immediate, extensive search. Troopers, Village Public Safety Officers, several search-and-rescue teams, military personnel, rescue dogs, ATVs, drones and helicopters scoured the isolated area near Denali National Park, but recent rains washed away potential footprints and no further sign of Wilson was located. Authorities reported no evidence of foul play at that time and the active search was scaled back to reactive status.

Does anyone have information about Mary Wilson’s movements on July 12th or the Stampede Trail that could assist this investigation?