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 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - When a family of six vanished in the snowy mountains of southern Oregon en route to the coast in a motor home, detectives weighed several theories in their quest to find them — including the possibility that they didn't want to be found.
The owner of the RV in which the family was traveling, Elbert Higginbotham, is a 54-year-old self-described survivalist who stockpiled rations six years ago for the never-realized Y2K disaster.
With him were his wife, his stepson and the stepson's wife, and that couple's two children, 8 and 9. They were rescued Tuesday after spending 17 days stuck in the snow on an isolated, unpaved road too remote for cell phone service.
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