{"id":243639,"date":"2026-04-23T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243639\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:01:07","slug":"florida-man-missing-after-walking-into-california-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243639\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man missing after walking into California wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man\u00a0has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/missing-robert-jamieson-please-help\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missing<\/a> for two weeks in rural California, and his family has now hired a private investigator to find him.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinity County Sheriff\u2019s Office said Robert Jamieson was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitycounty.org\/m\/NewsFlash\/Home\/Detail\/117\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visiting<\/a> friends in the area of Burnt Ranch, about 85 miles west of\u00a0Redding, when he went missing on April 8. The office has conducted multiple search and rescue missions for the 45-year-old Jamieson with no success.\u00a0Local investigators say\u00a0Jamieson, who may have been using stimulants, had \u201cexpressed concerns about being tracked and may have discarded his phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He ventured out on foot near the small rural town deep in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, leaving behind his phone, vehicle, dog and other personal items.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weeks into his disappearance without any new leads, his family is offering a reward of $1,000 for information about his whereabouts, according to a post from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kymkemp.com\/2026\/04\/22\/reward-now-being-offered-as-search-continues-for-missing-man-last-seen-near-burnt-ranch\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Redheaded Blackbelt<\/a>.\u00a0Although Jamieson set out on foot in a rural area, the reward notice describes him as not a \u201chiker\u201d and says he \u201chas had a spinal injury, metal braces and often in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family also wrote on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/missing-robert-jamieson-please-help\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> that a group of Jamieson\u2019s friends will fly out from Florida to look for him.\u00a0Jamieson had a young son and was the primary provider for his mother in Florida, the page says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about bringing Robert home\u00a0\u2014 or at the very least, finding out what has happened to him,\u201d Jamieson\u2019s cousin Lisa Payne wrote in the fundraiser description. \u201cOur family, his friends, and most importantly his young son, are living in unbearable uncertainty. We are heartbroken, and we are desperate for answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jamieson is described as standing 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing 185 pounds. He was last seen wearing a tan jacket, tan pants, a black shirt, sneakers and a black baseball cap. Anyone with information is asked to call the Trinity County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 530-623-8126.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man\u00a0has been\u00a0missing for two weeks in rural California, and his family has now hired a private&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,107422],"class_list":["post-243639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}