Utah couple missing in Arizona for nearly 2 weeks; pets, vehicles and valuables left behind

LITTLEFIELD, ARIZ. — Family members were hoping to find answers Tuesday following the disappearance of a Utah couple.

Jerry and Susan McFalls of West Jordan, both 62, were last heard from on Jan. 11. Family members said the couple was traveling back to Utah to take care of some business after being in Arizona before Christmas.

"(Susan) said, 'see you, love you,' on Sunday," daughter in-law Meridee McFalls said of the last communication the couple had with family.

The couple’s son, also named Jerry McFalls, said his parents had seemingly left their pets, their vehicles and all of their valuables behind at their Littlefield home with no trace of where they may have gone.

“When we got here, the sheds were open, the door was open,” Jerry McFalls said after arriving in Arizona. “My mom’s purse, wallet, cell phones, computers, everything (were) sitting on the kitchen table.”

The son said it was extremely uncharacteristic for his parents to leave their dogs behind.

“My mom, when they would go to the buffets, hid her little miniature dachshund in her purse,” he said. “Even when they were working on the tractor out here, the dog would sit on the tractor with (Susan).”

Meridee McFalls said it was unlikely that her in-laws simply had gone for a hike or a walk in the desert.

“They’re 62 years old,” she said. “They lived out here and they know the terrain. They don’t leave their property without one of their vehicles.”

Meridee said Mohave County Sheriff’s Office investigators have assisted in searching the surrounding area the past two days.

“We are definitely very worried,” she said.

“It just makes absolutely, positively no sense whatsoever,” her husband added.

Anybody with information about the McFalls’ disappearance is asked to call the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office at 928-753-0753.

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