Feds thought she was missing in Humboldt, but woman was spotted on 'The Bachelor' 
 
 Rebekah Martinez was reported as missing in Humboldt County on Nov. 18, 2017. After she was found on the reality series, "The Bachelor," she was removed from the California Department of Justice's website. Rebekah Martinez was reported as missing in Humboldt County on Nov. 18, 2017. After she was found on the reality series, "The Bachelor," she was removed from the California Department of Justice's website. Photo: Left: Attorney General's Office. Right: Craig Sjodin/ABC Via Getty Images Photo: Left: Attorney General's Office. Right: Craig Sjodin/ABC Via Getty Images Image 1 of / 47 Caption Close Feds thought she was missing in Humboldt, but woman was spotted on 'The Bachelor' 1 / 47 Back to Gallery 
 
 A woman who was reported as missing in Humboldt County was found this week in a rather visible place — the reality series "The Bachelor." 
 
 Rebekah Martinez, 22, of Fresno, was reported missing on Nov. 18 by her mother, who told the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office that her daughter had gone to the area to work on a marijuana farm. 
 
 The North Coast Journal included Martinez in a cover story featuring images of the 35 people listed as missing in Humboldt County on the California Department of Justice's website. 
 
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 The story titled "The Humboldt 35: Why does Humboldt County have the highest rate of missing persons reports in the state?" was published on Facebook on Thursday in a post that asked readers if they recognized anyone. 
 
 Amy Bonner O'Brien of Trinidad was the first to respond on the Facebook post and identify Martinez as a contestant on the current season of "The Bachelor." 
 
 "My sister always calls me Sherlock Holmes," O'Brien said. "I was just scrolling through the 35 missing people and I recognized some of them from news stories. When I got to her, I was like wait a minute, she looks so familiar and I instantly thought of 'The Bachelor.'" 
 
 O'Brien doesn't regularly tune into "The Bachelor," but on a recent visit to see her sister they watched this season's first episode together. 
 
 The North Coast Journal reached out to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office, who contacted Martinez over the phone and promptly removed her from the missing person's list. 
 
 "(The mother) had phone contact with Bekah via a friend on November 12th," said Public Information Officer Samantha Karges. "Bekah had told her she was coming to Humboldt County to work on a marijuana farm and she wouldn't be able to contact her for a week or so." 
 
 On "The Bachelor," Martinez got attention for her 14-year age difference with the lead Arie Luyendyk Jr. 
 
 She has been actively posting on Instagram and Twitter since she was reported missing and often posts about appearing on the show. When her bizarre story was reported by media on Feb. 2, she tweeted a message referring to the photo used in the missing person's report. 
 
 "Honestly the scariest thing about this story is that my efforts to conceal The Worst Drivers License Photo Of All Time have been thwarted," she wrote. 
 
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 If you've been watching this season of The Bachelor, you have been introduced to Bekah Martinez. 
 
 Bekah is us listening to Bekah’s impersonation of Krystal! #TheBachelor 
 
 Her main defining aspects on the show, so far, have been that she gives great reactions to all the drama... 
 
 And the fact that at age 22, she is much, much younger than the bachelor, 36-year-old Arie Luyendyk Jr. 
 
 But apparently, the drama in Bekah's personal life is much more complicated. In November, she was reported missing by her mother in California, and is still currently listed as missing on the attorney general's website 
 
 The bizarre story unfolded after the North Coast Journal published a cover story this week called "The Humboldt 35: Why does Humboldt County have the highest rate of missing persons reports in the state?" It examined why Humboldt has, according to the newspaper, "the highest per-capita rate of people reported missing in California." 
 
 The story was accompanied by a slideshow of all 35 people currently listed as missing in the county. One of them was Bekah, reported missing on Nov. 18, 2017. 
 
 Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that Bekah's mother called deputies on Nov. 18 and filed a missing person's report for her daughter. 
 
 The mother told them she had last spoken to her daughter on Nov. 12. 
 
 "Martinez told her mother that she was going to work on a marijuana farm and would see her in seven to eight days," officials said in a statement. 
 
 Sheriff’s officials said they followed "all leads" and the proper "procedure" to find Bekah. They also tried to contact Bekah and people who may know her, but were not successful. 
 
 On Dec. 12, Bekah's mother told officials she had heard from her daughter, who said she was on her way home. 
 
 However, sheriff's officials said they were still unable to contact Bekah, and so did not take her off the missing persons list. ||||| SANTA CRUZ -- After more than 24 hours of searching for a missing 8-year-old girl in Santa Cruz, Madyson "Maddy" Middleton was found dead in a dumpster behind the Tannery Arts Center just before 8 p.m., Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel said late Monday. 
 
 "We have arrested and taken into custody a 15-year-old male who was on the property at the time of the discovery," Vogel said. 
 
 That teenager, who lives at the Tannery, is being detained and questioned in relation to the homicide of Maddy, Vogel said. It was unknown if the teenager knew Maddy. 
 
 Detectives planned to remain on the scene throughout the night serving search warrants and sifting through evidence. 
 
 Surveillance video shows the last image of Madyson Middleton captured at 5:05 p.m. Sunday at the Tannery Arts Center. (Santa Cruz Police -- Contributed) 
 
 Vogel said it is difficult to tell what the young girl's clothing looks like, but they believe they have found Maddy. 
 
 "This is heartbreaking," Vogel said. 
 
 Vogel said they do not believe there are any witnesses to the crime, but there are witnesses who saw the suspect on the property Sunday. 
 
 It is unclear how the body or the suspect came to light, but residents said the teen is a resident at the Tannery and that his mother screamed in agony when he was arrested. Police were interviewing the teen late Monday. 
 
 The arrest ended what began on a hot Sunday afternoon, one that started as any other for Maddy, as she rode on her white Razer Scooter around her home at the Tannery Arts Center. 
 
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 Twenty-four hours later, the massive search included at least 200 residents, more than a dozen FBI agents, Santa Cruz police, a Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team, a helicopter crew, three K-9 units, an amateur drone camera and hundreds of paper fliers and social media posts. 
 
 She was waiting for a friend to finish a board game so they could play together, and rode the scooter under her friend's window, her mother said. At 5:07 p.m. a surveillance video shows Maddy riding her scooter near a cluster of metal mailboxes at the base of a red, four-story apartment building at the Tannery. 
 
 Then she disappeared. 
 
 "I thought she was in the courtyard. I thought she was in the bathroom, checked the art bar, then I started to going to every friend's house," said Laura Jordan, Maddy's 42-year-old mother. Jordan said she got more and more worried. "Maybe she got bored waiting for her play date, maybe she found another friend. But we had no luck." 
 
 Jordan described her daughter as an active, vocal child who would have screamed if a stranger tried to abduct her. 
 
 "She's never gone into the woods, and she knows she's not supposed to go down to the creek by herself," said Jordan. "People asked if she hides, and she doesn't do that." 
 
 Concerned neighbor volunteers arrive at the Tannery Arts Center apartments with posters and flyers of missing eight year-old Madyson Middleton who vanished from this very location Sunday evening while waiting for a playdate friend. (Dan Coyro -- Santa Cruz Sentinel) ( Dan Coyro ) 
 
 The Tannery, which is an art and work space for about 350 people at 1030 River St., backs up against a paved trail and a wooded area with trails to the San Lorenzo River. Residents said they look out for each other and watch each other's children. Yet Jordan said she fears people who camp illegally and use drugs by the river. 
 
 "She (Madyson) knows she's not to ride around the backs of the buildings because it's heroin highway," said Jordan. 
 
 Despite media attention Monday from San Francisco Bay Area TV stations to Good Morning America, no good leads in the case were generated and there were no credible sightings for the first 24 hours, Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said Monday afternoon. 
 
 Not her scooter, Madyson's clothing nor any other clues had been found, said Santa Cruz police spokeswoman Joyce Blaschke. K-9s tracked Maddy's scent along the San Lorenzo River behind the Tannery and to the river mouth at Santa Cruz Main Beach but found no clues. 
 
 Chief Vogel said that while they had not positively identified the body found Monday, authorities believed it was Madyson. 
 
 Santa Cruz police have said that Madyson's parents and family have been cooperative with authorities during the search. 
 
 Madyson's primary residence was at the Tannery with her mother. Madyson's father, Michel Middleton, shares custody as well and was at the Tannery helping with the search. 
 
 Jordan said she has lived at the Tannery for about six years. 
 
 A statewide amber alert Amber Alert was not issued because authorities said it did not meet the criteria and there was no suspect information. ||||| OCILLA, Ga. -- Authorities announced Thursday they have arrested a man on murder charges in the disappearance of a high school teacher in rural south Georgia more than 11 years ago. 
 
 Ryan Alexander Duke was being held in the Irwin County jail days after investigators received a tip linking him to Tara Grinstead, a teacher and former beauty queen missing since October 2005. CBS News’ “48 Hours” investigated the case in the episode, “Stolen Beauty.” 
 
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 “We did find the person that was responsible for Tara’s death,” J.T. Ricketson, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said at a courthouse news conference in Ocilla, about 165 miles south of Atlanta. 
 
 Duke had attended Irwin County High School, where Grinstead taught history, about three years before she vanished, Ricketson said. He declined to comment on how they knew each other or a motive. 
 
 The search for the missing woman’s remains continues, reports CBS affiliate WGCL. 
 
 GBI via WGCL 
 
 Connie Grinstead, the missing woman’s stepmother, told reporters she thanked God “for answered prayers.” 
 
 “We always believed that it would be solved,” she said, reading a statement at the courthouse news conference. “We just did not know when.” 
 
 It was not immediately known if Duke, 33, had a defense attorney. 
 
 Grinstead was 30 when she was last seen Oct. 22, 2005. The former Miss Tifton 1999 had spent the day helping contestants in a Miss Sweet Potato pageant in nearby Fitzgerald and then attended a cookout with friends in Ocilla. She was reported missing two days later when she failed to report to work. 
 
 Her house was found locked, with her cellphone inside. Her dog and cat were home and her car sat parked in the driveway. But Grinstead’s purse and keys were gone. A latex glove — the type worn by police officers and medical workers — was found in her front yard. 
 
 “I did have kind of a gut feeling that something was wrong,” Ocilla police chief Billy Hancock told “48 Hours” in 2008. 
 
 Police classified Grinstead as a missing person, saying there was no evidence she had been abducted. Still, authorities said they also couldn’t rule out foul play. 
 
 An outpouring of support followed in the farm community of Ocilla. Volunteers searched the area and set up a Tara Command Center with a telephone tip line and a website, www.findtara.com. Rewards of $100,000 were offered for Grinstead’s safe return or for information leading to an arrest and conviction if she was harmed. 
 
 Family members appeared on nationally televised crime shows to plead for information. Still, the case stumped investigators for more than a decade as years passed with no sign of Grinstead’s whereabouts and no arrests. 
 
 “I believe there is a piece of the puzzle that is missing,” Connie Grinstead told “48 Hours” in 2008. “And when that piece of information comes in, it will lead us to the answers of what happened to Tara.” 
 
 Ricketson gave no details Thursday as to how investigators linked Duke to Grinstead. He said a person, whom he declined to name, approached authorities with a tip days earlier. 
 
 “This gentleman (Duke) never came up on our radar through the investigation,” Ricketson said. Asked if more arrests were possible, he said, “That’s a very good question. Again, we have several more interviews to do.” 
 
 A probate judge in Grinstead’s home county declared her dead at her father’s request in 2010, more than five years after she vanished. 
 
 Police chased numerous leads that went nowhere. A Georgia man posted a YouTube video in 2009 claiming to have killed 16 people, including a “beauty queen” whose description matched Grinstead’s. But the video turned out to be a hoax. 
 
 The Irwin County sheriff in 2011 searched the area of a bridge crossing a creek after receiving a tip, but found nothing. In 2015, investigators acting on another tip drained a pond in Ben Hill County but later said they found nothing useful to the case. 
 
 The Georgia Bureau of Investigation launched an investigation with help from the local police and sheriff’s departments. The GBI interviewed an ex-boyfriend who had dated Grinstead for six years, as well as other male friends she had, but no one was charged. 
 
 “So many people have been hurt by this,” Grinstead’s stepmother said. “We hope with time this community can have closure and start to heal from this.”
– It turns out missing people are pretty easy to find when they appear every week in your living room. The San Francisco Chronicle reports a 22-year-old woman reported missing in November in California was found this week—because she's a current contestant on The Bachelor. The strange story started when Bekah Martinez's mom reported her missing to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office on Nov. 18. According to BuzzFeed, Martinez's mom said her daughter had gone to the area to work on a marijuana farm and she hadn't heard from her in a week. The Sheriff's Office was unable to find Martinez or contact anyone who might know her, so Martinez was added to the California Department of Justice's list of missing people. That list was the basis for a story in the North Coast Journal about the high number of missing people in Humboldt County. The newspaper shared the story Thursday on Facebook and asked readers if they recognized any of the missing people. Amy O'Brien did. "I was like wait a minute, she looks so familiar," O'Brien tells the Chronicle. "I instantly thought of The Bachelor." The Journal informed the sheriff's office, which contacted Martinez and removed her from the list. "MOM. how many times do I have to tell you I don’t get cell service on The Bachelor??," Martinez tweeted after learning she was a missing person. The Bachelor started filming in September, and it's unclear if Martinez was still filming when she was reported missing. She tweets "the scariest thing" about being a missing person "is that my efforts to conceal The Worst Drivers License Photo Of All Time have been thwarted"