Missing Tanya Rider Rescued After 8 Days in Ravine

Tanya Rider, the 33-year-old Washington State woman who was missing for eight days, was rescued Sept. 27th after authorities detected a signal from her cell phone.

Rider was trapped in her car at the bottom of a steep ravine, and was reported to be pale and dehydrated and suffering from kidney failure. She responded when police called her name when her car was found along a highway outside of Seattle.

Tanya Rider was in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Tom Rider, her husband, said she was "fighting for her life."

The woman had last been seen on Sept. 19 after leaving her job at a grocery store in Bellevue, Washington.

Tom Rider said that he had tried to report his wife as missing for a few days but was told his wife didn't meet criteria for being a missing person, and in fact had been considered a suspect in her disappearance. He said he was getting ready to take a lie-detector test for the sheriff to exclude himself as a suspect when officers told him that her car had been located.