CPD Blue Looking for Distraught Woman

A 49-year-old Coeur d’Alene woman is missing after making comments that she might hang herself on Tubbs Hill or swim into the lake and drown. Catherine Jeannine Gunn (pictured) was reported missing Monday night by her boyfriend, Richard Snell. He said that Gunn had attempted suicide a few weeks ago. Coeur d’Alene Police detectives and volunteers have started a search in the area of her home and on Tubbs Hill. Gunn has an unspecified medial condition that makes it unlikely that she could have walked from her home at Oak Crest Trailer Park to Tubbs Hill, according to a Coeur d’Alene Police Department press release. Gunn doesn’t own a vehicle.
Snell told police he last saw Gunn in her bed about 3:45 p.m. when he left for a doctor’s appointment. He returned home about 8:25 p.m. and realized Gunn wasn’t in the house. He called Gunn’s friend, who confirmed that Gunn had made recent comments about hanging herself on Tubbs Hill or drowning in the lake. Gunn was last seen wearing a long red dress with a matching jacket and black boots. She carries a brown leather purse with fringe. Gunn has long brown hair, brown eyes and if 5 feet 4 and 130 pounds. Anyone with information should call the Coeur d’Alene Police Department at (208) 769-2320.

Update (CPD Blue news release): On this date at 1:05 pm Coeur d’Alene Police and paramedics were dispatched to Motel 6 on Appleway in room 109 for an unconscious female. Detectives that were searching Tubbs Hill for Catherine Gunn were notified the female at Motel 6 was Catherine. Detectives arrived on scene as Catherine was being transported to Kootenai Medical Center. She was semi-conscious and possibly under the influence of medication she had taken herself