Regarding Bear Camp Road (also known as Merlin-Galice Road, Forest Service Road 33); This is NOT a highway and is not a maintained thoroughfare! Although on some maps it may appear to be a more direct route to Gold Beach, it's not a highway in any sense. It's a forest service road, closed in winter, and is mostly one-lane with no fog lines, no guard rails, no shoulder, and plenty of wash-outs, mudslides and potholes. Cell phones don't work in much of that area and after you pass the Agness turnoff, there is nothing but wilderness until you get to the other side of the mountain range at I-5. Flying In? Small aircraft can land at Gold Beach Airport. Otherwise, you'll need to land in Crescent City, Coos Bay or Medford.
Well, that answers that! Surely the B&B owners told the Kims that when they called about leaving the key.
Also, Bear Camp Road was one of the places the police said specifically that they had searched. Well, back to Square One.
We drove the Bear Camp Road in summer once and vowed we would never drive it again. And we have a 4WD vehicle. It is one scarey road.