Missing ferry passenger found unharmed

A Spokane woman who went missing from a Washington State Ferry on Monday was found unharmed early today oustide a store in Lake Forest Park, a suburb north of Seattle.

Lake Forest Police Sgt. Jason Becker found Amy Story about 12:30 a.m. — tired, but apparently uninjured and sitting outside of the Lake Forest Park Market on Ballinger Way Northeast, police said.

Story told Becker "her car had been stolen off a ferry recently," Lake Forest Police Chief Dennis Peterson said today.

"The woman verbally identified herself as Amy Story, and Sgt. Becker determined she was the person missing from the Washington State Ferry Tacoma since Monday the 21st," Peterson said.

Story has been reunited with her family, who are staying at a local hotel, Peterson added.

"There was no hospitilization involved," he said.

Authorities have been searching for Story, 27, whose parents say she suffers from bipolar disorder, since her car was found abandoned on the ferry after it arrived at Colman Dock in downtown Seattle from Bainbridge Island on 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Story's mother, Linda Myers, told The Seattle Times on Tuesday that her daughter, who had been visiting her grandfather in Sequim over Father's Day weekend, was not taking her medication. Story likely was wandering around incoherently, Myers added.

On Tuesday, State investigators released photographs taken from security video footage that had captured Story in the lobby of an Aurora Avenue motel, and later, near Denny Park in Seattle, as recently as 10 a.m. Tuesday.