Nita Mayo’s son Pete Mayo keeps her story in the public eye
From the Union Democrat, Pete Mayo struggles with efforts to keep his missing mom’s story in the publics eye.
For the last 45 days, Mayo’s four grown children have been doing everything possible to find her and to keep this without-a-trace missing person case in the public eye.
Pete Mayo had stated that, “really wanted on his 40th birthday was to spend time with his mother and have some of her homemade cookies”. However, yesterday Pete Mayo found himself pleading for clues as to his mother’s whereabouts at a press conference in Modesto.
“I just asked for help,” Pete Mayo said of the press conference. “I made a plea to deer hunters coming up to the mountains to keep and eye out for anything unusual.”
On his own and with brother-in-law Matt Taylor, Pete Mayo has searched most roads, trails, campgrounds, overlooks, points of interest, cabins, trailers, abandoned vehicles and untold natural rock formations between Strawberry and Kennedy Meadows.
Pete Mayo may have discovered what could be a clue from his mother’s house in a note she had previously wrote.
Wednesday night he was at his mother’s Hawthorne house and found a note Nita Mayo had written about a trip she took over Sonora Pass on July 3.
“The note just said she was on the part of Sonora Pass that Steve (her boss) had told her about,” Pete Mayo said. “She was looking out over a meadow and listening to the sounds of the mountains.”
He said he would show the note to investigators.