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Persistence and cell phone lead to rescue.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAR-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Persistence and cell phone lead to rescue.(General News)(Searchers didn't give up on a Cottage Grove man who was injured in a suicide attempt)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Rebecca Nolan The Register-Guard

Sheldon Cothran lay wounded in the woods for six days before the sound of his ringing cell phone led searchers to his location, just a few hundred feet from where they'd been looking all along.

Bleeding from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head, the 33-year-old father of two survived two freezes and a rain with no food, no water and no shelter.

What he did have was a cell phone, and it was the phone and the tireless efforts of his family, friends, co-workers and the Lane County sheriff's search and rescue team and forest deputies that got him out of the woods alive, his father and stepmother said Tuesday.

"We can't thank them enough," Tawana Cothran said of the sheriff's office volunteers and employees who scoured the hills north of...

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