Where is Fauna Frey? Missing in Southern Oregon | Josephine County

Crime Salad

BLACKCAT | Realm

True Crime

4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Southern Oregon is known for its stunning summer landscapes, remote forests, and quiet mountain towns. But in the beauty of Josephine County, isolation and danger often live side by side. In late June of 2020, 45-year-old Fauna Frey set out on a short drive through Grants Pass and the surrounding mountain roads, a route filled with winding highways, dense forests, and long stretches with no cell service. Somewhere along that journey, Fauna vanished without a trace. In this episode, Ashley and Ricky explore the rural communities of Southern Oregon, where abandoned mining towns, thinly stretched law enforcement, and high crime rates create the perfect environment for disappearances to go unnoticed. Her car, her belongings, and a series of strange clues left investigators puzzled and her family desperate for answers. This is the story of a woman who went missing on a warm June afternoon in 2020, a case that blends mystery, isolation, and the harsh realities of searching for a missing person in Oregon’s most rugged terrain. If you follow missing persons cases, unsolved disappearances, rural true crime, or stories centered around Southern Oregon and Josephine County, this episode will take you deep into one of the region’s most haunting mysteries. Listen as we break down the timeline, the evidence, the environment, and the theories surrounding the disappearance of Fauna Frey. If you know anything, please contact the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office tip line at 541-359-5638, or email [email protected]. You can also visit the private community page on Facebook, Help Find Fauna Frey to watch for updates in her case. LOLA BLANKETS: https://lolablankets.com/ Use code CRIMESALAD for 40 percent off. Please support Crime Salad and let them know we sent you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Southern Oregon is breathtaking in the summer.
0:08.6	The valleys fold under endless daylight.
0:11.5	The rivers flash silver through pine-covered hills.
0:15.0	And for a moment, everything feels untouched.
0:18.2	Josephine County, at the heart of it, looks like a place where people come to start over.
0:23.2	Quiet towns, mountain air, and long, winding roads that disappear into the green forest.
0:29.8	But the quiet here has another side. The same forests that make it so beautiful almost make it
0:36.1	isolating. Places like Cave Junction or Out Beyond Grant's Pass, homes sit miles apart, and once you
0:43.3	leave the main road, help can be a long way off.
0:47.3	Josephine County was a mining hub, then a logging town, and it spent decades caught between
0:53.3	old industries and the promise of tourism.
0:56.6	The rogue river brings in rafters and retirees, but the economy struggles.
1:01.8	Crime runs high, and law enforcement is spread thin.
1:05.6	When something happens out there, when someone disappears, it can take days before anyone knows where to look.
1:12.7	And in late June of 2020, when the sun hung high on a beautiful 70-degree day, 45-year-old
1:18.7	fauna fry set out on a short trip through these roads, through the heart of Southern Oregon's
1:24.6	beauty and isolation. But somewhere between Grant's Pass and the mountain passes beyond, her trail went cold.
1:33.1	This is the story of Fana Fry.
1:35.1	I'm Ashley.
1:36.1	And I'm Ricky.
1:37.2	And this is Crime Salad.
1:49.9	So when you hear about Fonda Fry, what stands out most is how grounded she was.
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