Soon after Shayna Feinman, 35, went missing on March 9 somewhere in between Peach Springs and Seligman, Arizona, her sister, Kara, began contacting Shayna’s friends where she quickly heard two different versions of the disappearance.

Shayna is a graduate of Guilderland High School, she moved out west a few years ago.

One version had Shayna walking into the woods on her own after having a disagreement with somebody. The other version had her being chased into the woods.

“I don’t know what one is accurate. I don’t know which one is true,” Kara Feinman said. “What I do know is that she did not go in there intending to camp, to hike, or to stay there for any sort of extended period of time.”

Kara’s sister is a certified survivalist who never would have wandered into the woods without her camping gear, which was found inside her abandoned car, along with her wallet and passport.

“A missing person is I think one of the hardest things to handle because there is no closure and there is no understanding (of what happened),” she said. “They could be in a terrible situation, or they could no longer be on this earth.”

After posting a missing persons notice on social media, Kara says she has received several pieces of useful information while she personally tries to solve the mystery.

“I have voicemails and I have text message threads of her saying she wasn’t feeling safe. She was scared at that time,” Kara stated. “That draws a lot of concern now that she’s been missing for so long.”

Just recently, one of Shayna’s friends sent Kara a cell phone video of the place on a 40 acre property where Shayna had been living with a few friends. The video included footage of the remote location where Shayna’s car had been abandoned and where a massive police search that included K-9s turned up nothing.

“I have been in communication with my family,” Kara said. “They have been reaching out, and I have been speaking to them regularly. The whole thing is just really hard, and it’s really hard to go every day not having answers about what’s happened or where she is, or if she’s OK.”

Adding to the family’s despair is the discovery that another woman recently disappeared from an Arizona roadside not far from where Shayna vanished.

Chelsea Grimm, 32, was on a cross-country journey from her home in San Diego to a family wedding in Connecticut, when she went missing in October 2023.

“There are a lot of insane similarities between the two cases, which draws even more concern,” Kara said. “They had some similar friends. They both had lived in Connecticut, and they both traveled to Arizona. All of (Chelsea’s) belongings were accounted for, and it’s scary to think that it could be a pattern.”

Kara Feinman is asking anyone who has spoken with Shayna in the past few months to please get in touch with her. Her number is 518-253-6358.