KETTENPOM, Calif. - Jim and Norma Gund remember exactly what they were doing on March 13, 2011, when the phone rang.There was a big snowstorm coming to Kettenpom, a northern California ranching and logging community of about 200 people.
The Gunds had just returned from the store and were making sure their home and horses were ready for the impending weather.On the other end of the phone line was Cpl.
Ron Whitman with the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office. The Gunds’ neighbor, 33-year-old Kristine Constantino, had called 911, he said."He said, ‘Can you go down and check on her for me?’" Norma recalled in an interview with FOX TV Stations. "And I said, ‘Well, what was the phone call about?
And he goes, ‘Well, it's probably just weather related. It's probably no big deal.’"Two hours from the nearest law enforcement station, the Gunds did what almost anyone in their rural, tight-knit town would do: they drove the quarter-mile to the cabin where Constantino lived with her boyfriend, 26-year-old Christopher "Sky" Richardson.An aerial view shows the Jim and Norma Gund's remote home in Kettenpom (The Sacramento Bee) "And Ron Whitman said, ‘Here is my cell phone number.