![]() and all of a sudden he's gone too," she said. "I was finally processing Ember being gone. Jamie Graham described her husband's shootout with law enforcement early Monday, July 13, in Dunsmuir as "doomsday." The next anyone knew about Matthew Graham was when he was spotted at a gas station in Shasta Lake the following day. She said she did not hear from Matthew again after he fled the area. "Then everything had happened with Matthew being on the run." "I had a moment and I needed help," she said, wanting to make clear that the Graham and Tomlin families were not fighting. That Saturday, July 11, when detectives asked Graham to identify the pacifier, ended for her in a hospital with an anxiety attack. "All we know is what you guys know."ĭespite the fact that her husband was a free man after his release July 8 from Shasta County Jail, where he was held for a violating his probation on unrelated cases, she said the two had little time to talk, and he shared nothing with her about Ember. "Everybody wants answers, but we don't have answers," she said. On social media, criticism has been harsh, unfair and full of speculation, she said. She had to go search for her daughter, she said, adding that she thought Matthew would have wanted it that way. Last Saturday, Matthew Graham's family held a memorial service for him.Īsked if she had attended the service, Jamie Graham said she did not. I wish there was something he left behind. I'm disappointed that he isn't here to answers our questions," she said. "He's the one who would be able to help in this situation and he's not here. ![]() She said he held the answers into their daughter's disappearance and those answers died with him. The shooting investigation is being handled by the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office, which is being assisted by several other agencies. Matthew Graham was killed July 13 in a shootout with law enforcement officers in a normally quiet residential area in Dunsmuir. Graham, who stood steadfast by Matthew Graham when he was named a person of interest in Ember's mysterious disappearance from her playpen, as he had reported it to authorities on July 2, was more reserved about her support for her now-dead husband. ![]() The sheriff has called the baby's kidnapping improbable and expressed doubt the baby is alive.Īccompanying Graham in her sit-down interview with the paper Wednesday were her father, Tom Tomlin, and Trudy Nickens, the executive director of Nor Cal Alliance for the Missing, a local missing person's advocacy group. Yet she still clings to the possibility her daughter is alive, and she is counting on the sheriff's office to keep working the case. Graham said her family only is responding to what detectives have shared about the investigation. The search for the baby remains concentrated around remote fields and tall grasses, where Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has said an infant needing to be fed and cared for - and in Ember's case, provided medication twice a day for seizures - could not survive alone for days. Searchers found the pacifier July 10 on a road in the Ono area. The pacifier had been in the baby's mouth the night before she was reported missing, July 1 video surveillance from the Happy Stop Market showed. "When I saw it (on video), I knew that that's what they were going to show me." I was hoping that they found something else," she said. I didn't want to believe that they (had found) it. "It was in her mouth in the camera at the store. She spoke at length of her world being tossed into chaos and turmoil, the loss of her husband, Matthew Ryan Graham, and her worst fears being realized when detectives showed her Ember's pacifier. Graham, 19, broke her silence of more than two weeks to give the Record Searchlight an interview to bring the focus back on baby Ember Skye Graham and respond to a flurry of rumors that won't let up on social media. July 23- REDDING, California - Jamie Lee Graham, the mother of a missing 6-month-old girl whose high-profile search was momentarily eclipsed when the baby's father went on the run and was killed by law enforcement officers, says she won't rest until she knows where her daughter is - whether it's underground in the Happy Valley area or in someone's home across the country. Add To Favorites Mother holds out hope for missing baby Ember
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