Washington state couple missing amid legal battle with neighbors

Washington state deputies are hunting for a couple who vanished from their rural home after accusing their neighbors of trespassing and harassment, their family said.
Patrick Shunn, 45, and Monique Patenaude, 46, were reported missing Tuesday after their neighbors found the couple’s dogs and livestock untended on their Arlington ranch, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. Their cars were found in a remote forest, off an embankment Thursday — but the married couple is still nowhere to be found.
Shunn’s brother said a man the couple has had multiple problems with is missing, too.
“They also had a neighbor that harassed Monique and is not a good guy. He is squatting on a property adjacent to Pat and Monique's,” Erik Shunn wrote on Faebook Wednesday. “He is missing too and I think if they can find him, we will get some answers.”

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 Patrick Shunn, 45, and his wife Monique Patenaude, 46, were last seen on Monday.

The pair is in the midst of a legal battle with several neighbors, whom they’ve accused of bringing unleashed dogs and recreational vehicles onto their private property, court records obtained by the Seattle Times showed. They were set to face the alleged trespassers in a civil trial later this year.
The sheriff’s office has not released information on any possible suspects or detailed a possible motive. However, deputies consider the disappearance suspicious — it’s not usual for the couple to fall out of touch with their friends and family, officials said.
 Shunn and Patenaude were last seen Monday, and their families began to worry a day later.

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The couple vanished from their Arlington, Wash., home earlier this week.

“Pat did not show up for work nor did he call in,” Erik Shunn posted on Tuesday. “That is very uncharacteristic of him. Pat and Monique have pets and livestock and they haven’t been taken care of the last day and a half.”
Deputies launched a massive hunt for the missing couple’s cars — a Land Rover and a Jeep — in a wooded area in Oso, about 10 miles from Arlington, on Thursday. The vehicles had rolled off an embankment and officials have not yet been able to reach them, KIRO 7 reported. Officials have not determined if Shunn and Patenaude could be in the cars.