Pierce County deputies seek tips from public to find missing Spanaway woman

Pierce County deputies are seeking help from the public to locate a 21-year-old Spanaway woman who hasn’t been seen or heard from by family for more than a week.

Rio Boyd was last seen Oct. 17 at about 6 p.m. in the Spanaway area, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department.

In a Facebook post on Tuesday, the Sheriff’s Department described Boyd as a 5-foot-6, 215-pound white woman with brown hair and blue eyes with a scar on her left forearm and a mole above her lip.

Deputies said the woman’s cell phone was located the night she was last seen near Field Road and Mountain Highway, reportedly close by her family’s home.

Anyone with information about Boyd’s whereabouts was asked to call 911.

This story was originally published October 26, 2022 at 9:25 AM.

Peter Talbot

The News Tribune

Peter Talbot is a criminal justice reporter for The News Tribune. He started with the newspaper in 2021. Before that, he earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism at Indiana University. In college, he worked as an intern at NPR in Washington, D.C. He also interned for the Oregonian and the Tampa Bay Times. Support my work with a digital subscription