Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to video number thirteen in our National
Speaker 1: Park Mystery series. Going out into the great outdoors can
Speaker 1: be wonderful for both our physical and mental health. Every
Speaker 1: country across the world has at least some beautiful scenery
Speaker 1: that is worth walking for, but sometimes hikers pay the
Speaker 1: ultimate price for beautiful view. Remember, never hike a loan,
Speaker 1: tell someone where you're going, and always take a GPS
Speaker 1: tracker and adequate supplies. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy
Speaker 1: the stories. First up, we have Matthew Jedediah Hall. October
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, twenty twenty, should have been Matthew Jed Hall's
Speaker 1: nineteenth birthday, a day that should have been spent celebrating
Speaker 1: with friends and family, was instead a som vacation. On
Speaker 1: January twenty second, twenty eighteen, sixteen year old Jed left
Speaker 1: his home in Idaho Falls around two am and hopped
Speaker 1: into his two thousand and nine Nissan Versa camping and
Speaker 1: survival gear along with a nine millimeter handgun. Before leaving,
Speaker 1: he left his parents a note telling them he was
Speaker 1: going to take his own life, and just like that,
Speaker 1: he disappeared into the darkness. When Jed's parents woke up
Speaker 1: the next morning went to the bedroom to check on him.
Speaker 1: They were heartbroken to see his bedroom was empty and
Speaker 1: that the note lay on his desk. After reading the
Speaker 1: contents of that note, his parents rushed to the nearest
Speaker 1: phone and reported him missing to the Idaho Falls Police Department.
Speaker 1: Soon a wide scale search is underway, with his parents,
Speaker 1: Amy and Allan joining in. Alan told East Idaho News
Speaker 1: it was black madness. It was just insanity, not lead, nothing,
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden, he's gone. Jed's parents continued
Speaker 1: driving up and down the highways looking for any sign
Speaker 1: of him, while the police began pinging his phone, hoping
Speaker 1: to get a last known location. Jed's phone pinged for
Speaker 1: a final time at six forty eight am near the
Speaker 1: interchange of Interstate fifteen in US Highway twenty along the
Speaker 1: Snake River. After that, the signal went dead. Meanwhile, staff
Speaker 1: at the American Heritage Charter School began arriving ready to
Speaker 1: face another day. One teacher noticed that a window had
Speaker 1: been broken and began looking through the CCTV footage from
Speaker 1: the night before. As they scanned through hours of footage,
Speaker 1: something finally caught their eye. At two thirty one am,
Speaker 1: The video showed Jed breaking a window and gaining itch
Speaker 1: to the school, wearing combat boots, knee pads as well
Speaker 1: as the ear and eye protection. Nothing was taken from
Speaker 1: the school, but instead Jed made his way to the
Speaker 1: locker the girl who had just rejected his advances and
Speaker 1: slipped a thousand dollars in cash, a necklace, and a
Speaker 1: note into her locker. Once he was finished, he slipped
Speaker 1: out of the school, got back into his car, and
Speaker 1: disappeared into the darkness once more. A few hours between
Speaker 1: entering the school and his phone going dead have not
Speaker 1: been accounted for. Interestingly, most sources state that Jed left
Speaker 1: behind a journal where his car had been parked at home.
Speaker 1: Inside the journal were lists of things he was going
Speaker 1: to take with him and plans for disguises. Was the
Speaker 1: note of red herring or did Jed really intend on
Speaker 1: taking his own life that night? His family and friend
Speaker 1: said he loved the show Hunted and was in the
Speaker 1: Civil Air Patrol and wanted to join the military after school.
Speaker 1: Despite huge search efforts, not a single sign of Jed
Speaker 1: has ever been found, and after the investigation dwindled, Jed's
Speaker 1: parents called in the help of a private investigator Jim
Speaker 1: Terry in an interview with the East Idaho News in
Speaker 1: April of twenty twenty, Jim put forward some very bizarre
Speaker 1: theories that both the Idaho false Police and Jed's parents
Speaker 1: seemed to disagree with. Jim alleges that Jed had a
Speaker 1: female friend who had been assaulted and that Jed wanted
Speaker 1: to get his revenge and stand up for the Details
Speaker 1: surrounding this seemed rather thin, and this article details how
Speaker 1: there was a shooting on the night that Jed disappeared
Speaker 1: that took place on the driveway of a person who
Speaker 1: may have known Jed's female friend. Jed's parents rebuted this
Speaker 1: theory and said Jed skilled enough that if he wanted
Speaker 1: to hurt somebody in the technical and tactical sense, that
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been something he wasn't capable of. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: have done it. I don't believe he would have done it,
Speaker 1: but his ability. He was a pretty well trained kid.
Speaker 1: Since the early morning hours of January twenty second, twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: Jed Hall has never been seen or heard from again.
Speaker 1: His family are extremely concerned for his welfare and are
Speaker 1: offering a twenty thousand dollars reward for any information. Jed
Speaker 1: Hall is described as a white male with brown hair
Speaker 1: and brown hazel eyes five eleven, one hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: In a Facebook post to the page missing Jed Hall,
Speaker 1: his family wrote, thirty one months gone, twenty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: reward for information leading to finding my son or for
Speaker 1: information helping me find the Nissan Versa he took missing
Speaker 1: all that time. We won't ever get back such a
Speaker 1: huge hole in our hearts and lives. Anyone with any
Speaker 1: information about Jed is asked to contact Detective Anthony Cox
Speaker 1: of the Idaho Falls Police Department at two zero eight
Speaker 1: sixty one two eight six one six in reference case
Speaker 1: number two zero one eight Nash zero two six three six.
Speaker 1: Maximilian Schweizer. The disappearance of Max Sweitzer is both intriguing
Speaker 1: and confusing, and there is so few details available about
Speaker 1: his background or his disappearance. According to the website Strange
Speaker 1: outdoors dot com, Max's LinkedIn profile listed him as a
Speaker 1: clandestine analyst at the US Department of Homeland Security. Cliland's
Speaker 1: profile is no longer active. Various sources mentioned that he
Speaker 1: also worked for the San Francisco Civil Service Commission as
Speaker 1: a transit planner, and that this employment was terminated in
Speaker 1: two thousand and four. Now, the web Slution forum is
Speaker 1: filled with theories and ideas about this case. However, without
Speaker 1: much solid information, these ideas in theory remained just that.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and five, Max faced federal charges for
Speaker 1: vandalizing an FBI lobby in San Francis, Leo after he
Speaker 1: demanded to speak with FBI agents. The article by the
Speaker 1: San Francisco Gate states that he threw a plant against
Speaker 1: the wall, broke the legs off chairs, and damaged glass
Speaker 1: display cases. The FBI alleged that he caused seven four
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety one dollars in damages. It's unclear whether
Speaker 1: Max damaged the lobby because he was told he couldn't
Speaker 1: meet with agents, or whether he just had a sudden outburst.
Speaker 1: There isn't much follow up information to him about this incidant. However,
Speaker 1: Strange Outdoors also uncovered that in twenty sixteen, Max was
Speaker 1: arrested again under charges of threats of violence, annoying and
Speaker 1: obscene threatening phone calls, threatening state officials or judges, and
Speaker 1: warrants their holds only. The main question is why was
Speaker 1: Max so insistent on speaking to FBI agents and judges
Speaker 1: and state officials. Did he really have ties to homeland
Speaker 1: security or was this just something he had popped onto
Speaker 1: his LinkedIn profile. The only details surrounding his disappearance are
Speaker 1: as follows. Somewhere around January first to January fifth, Max
Speaker 1: entered the Yosemite National Park and left his car at
Speaker 1: the Camp for parking lot. On January fifth, the rental
Speaker 1: company that Max had rented the car from reported that
Speaker 1: the car was overdue, and subsequently it was located in
Speaker 1: the Camp four lot, but there was no sign of Max.
Speaker 1: Yosemite National Park Service issued a tweet on January sixth,
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, alerting the public to max disappearance. At this time,
Speaker 1: Max had already been reported missing and an investigation was underway.
Speaker 1: As previously mentioned, the details surrounding his disappearance are incredibly sparse,
Speaker 1: and there are no mentions of any searches that were conducted.
Speaker 1: The tweet by the Yosemite NPS reads missing person Max
Speaker 1: Sweiser forty one year old, white male, brown hair, blue eyes,
Speaker 1: five foot agents is tall, one hundred and eighty five
Speaker 1: pounds unknown, clothing gear unknown, unknown direction, of travel. Now,
Speaker 1: as of twenty twenty two, Max still remains missing with
Speaker 1: his possible ties to homeland security. Is it by that
Speaker 1: Max didn't disappear at all and was sent on a
Speaker 1: secret mission or is there something more nefarious at hand?
Speaker 1: Anyone with any information regarding Max is asked to contact
Speaker 1: the Yosemite National Park Service at two zero nine three
Speaker 1: seven nine nine two. Next up. David Cook. On September nineteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, David Dave Cook entered the White River National
Speaker 1: Forest in Aspen, Colorado, and planned on hiking to Maroon
Speaker 1: Bells and Pyramid Peak alone. Dave was a former Marine
Speaker 1: and had gone on plenty of hikes before, so he
Speaker 1: was well equipped for this trip. In fact, this hike
Speaker 1: was to be his forty seventh summit of a fourteen
Speaker 1: er and Dave was excited to get his trip under way. Unfortunately, however,
Speaker 1: Dave failed to return home after his trip, and his
Speaker 1: family immediately knew that something was wrong. Dave was described
Speaker 1: by his wife Marine as a kind and caring person
Speaker 1: who wouldn't just leave his family. The Maroon Bells consisted
Speaker 1: of two peaks, Maroon Peak which is fourteen one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty three feet tall and North Maroon Peak, which
Speaker 1: was fourteen thoy nineteen feet tall. The Pyramid Peak is
Speaker 1: also a similar height at fourteen thy twenty five feet
Speaker 1: and his day was a former marine and had done
Speaker 1: forty six summons before. Neither heat nor his family was
Speaker 1: too worried. However, the Maroon Bells had picked up the
Speaker 1: unfortunate nickname of the Deadly Bells over the years, and
Speaker 1: it appears that the Deadly Bells may have indeed claimed
Speaker 1: another victim. According to reports, Dave entered the White River
Speaker 1: National Forest on September nineteenth, twenty sixteen, and planned to
Speaker 1: climb North Maroon Peak first. Arc rangers and records indicate
Speaker 1: that Dave arrived at the park at around eleven am
Speaker 1: and set off on his solo heigh. There was no
Speaker 1: indication that anything was wrong, and Dave carried on throughout
Speaker 1: the day. Other hikers also reported seeing him on South
Speaker 1: Maroon at around one forty pm on September nineteenth of
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. The next known movements are at between four
Speaker 1: pm and six pm, when Dave's phone pinged from inside
Speaker 1: the park. Unfortunately, investigators were not able to determine which
Speaker 1: peak the Pin had come from then. On September twentieth,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, a day after Dave had entered the park,
Speaker 1: a parking attendant recalls seeing Dave that morning. This is
Speaker 1: the last confirmed sighting of Dave Cook, and ever since
Speaker 1: that day, September twentieth, twenty sixteen, there's been no sign
Speaker 1: of him. David only planned to be gone for a
Speaker 1: few days, so when he felt her return home, his
Speaker 1: wife knew immediately that something was very, very wrong. When
Speaker 1: she was unable to get a hold of him, she
Speaker 1: called the park rangers and contacted the Pitkin County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Office to report her husband missing. The Pitkin County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Office sprang into action and began their search for Dave
Speaker 1: on foot and by air. Mountain Rescue ASPEN, an all
Speaker 1: volunteer nonprofit organization, also joined in for the search, utilizing
Speaker 1: the tools and expertise they had at hand. Unfortunately, despite
Speaker 1: their best efforts, no sign of Dave could be located,
Speaker 1: and the search is called off after a few days
Speaker 1: due to bad weather and heavy snowfall. Investigators later searched
Speaker 1: Dave's car for any clues and found that his map
Speaker 1: for Pyramid Peak was still in his car. According to
Speaker 1: the Facebook page find Dave Cook, his map for Peer
Speaker 1: mid Peak was still in the car, although perhaps he
Speaker 1: just forgot the map. Dave did not have his crampons
Speaker 1: with him, but he did have micro spikes. Search and
Speaker 1: Rescue and the Picking County Sheriff's Office did a good
Speaker 1: job searching. There were multiple helicopters, boots on the ground,
Speaker 1: a plane with a million dollar camera, and sniffer dogs
Speaker 1: used in the search. Unfortunately, even with all this high
Speaker 1: technology at their disposal, the pick And County Sheriff's Office
Speaker 1: and search and rescue teams have been unable to find
Speaker 1: any trace of Dave. Over the years, multiple additional searches
Speaker 1: have been conducted, and the Pickin County Shriff's Office has
Speaker 1: made it clear that they have not given up in
Speaker 1: their search for the remains of Dave. In the wake
Speaker 1: of Dave's mostie disappearance, Marine Dave's wife, along with members
Speaker 1: of Day's family, set up the Dave Gives Back campaign
Speaker 1: to help raise funds and awareness for search and rescue
Speaker 1: teams in both Colorado and New Mexico. Marine wants to
Speaker 1: ensure that Dave is not forgotten and other families do
Speaker 1: not have to endure the same ordeal. Forty nine year
Speaker 1: old Dave Cook was last seen in the White River
Speaker 1: National Forest on September twentieth, twenty sixteen. He was last
Speaker 1: seen wearing khaki pants, a long sleeved black shirt, a
Speaker 1: blue helmet, and possibly a gray jacket. Anyone with any
Speaker 1: information is as to please contact the Picking County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Office at nine seven zero nine two zero five three
Speaker 1: zero zero. Next up, we have Breck Phelps. There's a
Speaker 1: distinct lack of information in the case of sixty eight
Speaker 1: year old Brick Phelps, but here's what we do know.
Speaker 1: On October two, twenty sixteen, Breck went on a fishing
Speaker 1: trip on the Stantislava River in the Stanislaw National Forest
Speaker 1: in Tuolomee County, California. Unfortunately, Breck never returned to the
Speaker 1: shore that has been missing ever since. According to reports,
Speaker 1: Breck's friend found his two thousand and seven Nissan vers
Speaker 1: that parked along Highway one O eight close to the
Speaker 1: Dunelvista Point. The don Elvis To Point is a trail
Speaker 1: in the Stannislaw National Force. It gives way to some
Speaker 1: of the most beautiful views in the park. According to
Speaker 1: Strange outdoors dot Com, the tract of land around Dunnell
Speaker 1: Point is described as large and vast, with extreme changes
Speaker 1: in elevation, deep canyons, with heavy foliage, and cold, fast
Speaker 1: running water that filled the crevices and ledges. This was
Speaker 1: the trail Breck used in order to get to the
Speaker 1: Stanislaus River. When Breck's friends and family realized he was missing,
Speaker 1: they continued the Tuolomee County Sheriff's Office, who embarked on
Speaker 1: an intensive search form using helicopters, sniffer dogs, and officers
Speaker 1: on the ground and in the water. The Sheriff's office
Speaker 1: and Search and Risky team searched for Breck but found
Speaker 1: no sign of them. The Santislaus River and other pockets
Speaker 1: of water were searched extensively as well, but there was
Speaker 1: no sign of him ever found there. There have been
Speaker 1: two other mysterious disappearances in Dunell Vista over the years,
Speaker 1: and there are cases that will be featured later on
Speaker 1: in this video. Sixty eight year old Breg Phelps was
Speaker 1: last seen on October second, twenty sixteen, in the Stanislaus
Speaker 1: River in the Stanislaw National Forest in California. He is
Speaker 1: described as a white male with gray hair, blue eyes,
Speaker 1: standing five foot ten inches tall and weighing about one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five pounds. Anyone with any information is
Speaker 1: asked to please contact the Tooolamey County Sheriff's Office at
Speaker 1: two zero nine five three three five eight one five.
Speaker 1: Next up, we have the case of Patricia Sioux Tollhurst.
Speaker 1: Forty eight year old Patrician Sioue Tollhurst also was seriously
Speaker 1: disappeared from Danel Vista in Santa i Saw National Forest
Speaker 1: in California. Again, there's not much information available, but here
Speaker 1: is what we do know. Forty eight year old Patricia
Speaker 1: owned the Patty Shack restaurant in East Sonora and was
Speaker 1: known as a kind and loving person. Unfortunately, shortly before
Speaker 1: her disappearance, Patty had been going through some financial hardships
Speaker 1: and had taken a toll on her. She was stressed
Speaker 1: out and was hoping that things would settle down and
Speaker 1: sort themselves out. The last confirmed sighting and Patricia was
Speaker 1: on April eighteenth, twenty fourteen, in twain Hart, California, and
Speaker 1: while this was the last time she was seen, it
Speaker 1: wasn't the last time that her loved once heard from her.
Speaker 1: On April twentieth, twenty fourteen, Patricia posted a letter to
Speaker 1: her friends telling them that she was going to Kennedy
Speaker 1: Meadows along the Pacific Crest Trail Desert. This area is
Speaker 1: called the Promised Land, as hikers have to hike over
Speaker 1: seven hundred miles to reach this beautiful spy. In the letter,
Speaker 1: Patricia told her friends that she was going to put
Speaker 1: her feet in the water, and many hikers talk about
Speaker 1: the magnificent waters that Kennedy met us. After this, Patricia
Speaker 1: has never been seen or heard from again. When Patricia
Speaker 1: failed to make contact with friends and family, the Tuolomee
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office was made of wherever disappearance and began
Speaker 1: their search for It would take two days for the
Speaker 1: Tuolomee County Sheriff's Office to find their first clue. On
Speaker 1: April twenty second, Patricia's white Toyota four Runner was found
Speaker 1: alongside Highway one oh eight at Danel Vista Point. Inside
Speaker 1: was her handbag and other personal items. There was no
Speaker 1: indication of where Patricia could have gone, and the Sheriff's
Speaker 1: office continued their search of the surrounding areas. Unfortunately, these
Speaker 1: searches have turned up nothing. As of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: Patricia remains missing. Patricia Sue Tolhurst was last seen on
Speaker 1: April eighteenth, twenty fourteen, in twain Hart, California. She is
Speaker 1: described as a white female with blonde hair, blue eyes,
Speaker 1: stands around five seven to five eight inches tall, and
Speaker 1: at the Tiber disappearance weighed one hundred and twenty two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds. She has a scar in her
Speaker 1: ankle and a scar on her left cheek that looks
Speaker 1: like a dimple. She was last seen wearing a black
Speaker 1: pull over top, blue jeans, a Brian leather necklace with
Speaker 1: a charm, and a California State University two thousand and
Speaker 1: six class ring. Anyone with any information is asked to
Speaker 1: contact the Tuyleomie County Sheriff's Office at two zero nine
Speaker 1: five three three five eight five point five in reference
Speaker 1: case C one four dash one one eight four. Next up.
Speaker 1: Brian George Brunell Forty eight year old Brian George Burnell
Speaker 1: was last seen on October thirty, first Halloween twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: at his sister's home in Pleasant Hill, California. The details
Speaker 1: surrounding Brian's case are incredibly limited, and all we know
Speaker 1: is that prior to his disappearance, Brian had been depressed,
Speaker 1: being out of work and also had financial worries. After
Speaker 1: leaving his sister's home, Brian simply dropped off the face
Speaker 1: of the earth, and it wouldn't be until two weeks
Speaker 1: later that the Pleasant Hill Police Department would get their
Speaker 1: first clue. On November fifteenth, twenty eleven, Brian's abandoned car
Speaker 1: was found at the Boulder Creek Falls trailhead in the
Speaker 1: Whiskey Town National Recreation Area by staff. Following this development,
Speaker 1: the National Park Service Rangers, the Shasta County Sheriff's Department,
Speaker 1: the Shasta County Search and Rescue teams, and the California
Speaker 1: Highway Patrol began their search for Brian on foot and
Speaker 1: by air. These teams scoured the woods surrounding Mill Creek
Speaker 1: and Boulder Creek, but unfortunately, there was no sign of Brian.
Speaker 1: After November seventeenth, twenty eleven, the search will scale back
Speaker 1: and has been quietly ongoing ever since. Brian George Burnell
Speaker 1: was last seen on October thirty first, twenty eleven, in
Speaker 1: Pleasant Hill, California. He is described as a white male
Speaker 1: by foot nine inches tall, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Speaker 1: Anyone with any information as to the s whereabouts has
Speaker 1: asked to police contact the Pleasant Hill Police Department at
Speaker 1: nine two five two eight eight four six zero zero
Speaker 1: and reference case number one one four two sixty seven.
Speaker 1: Next David Michael Bernie. On June twenty ninth, two thousand
Speaker 1: and seven, forty six year old David Michael Burnie purchased
Speaker 1: a red Toyota tur Cell and planned to drive to
Speaker 1: Georgia to meet up with his two daughters. Unfortunately, David
Speaker 1: never arrived, prompting his daughters to report him missing. As
Speaker 1: with most cases featured in this episode, there's not a
Speaker 1: whole lot of information and all we can do is
Speaker 1: report the facts that are presented to us. The next
Speaker 1: update on David's case doesn't come unto late August of
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, when his new red Toyota tur
Speaker 1: Cell was found abandoned in Bankhead Forest, just off County
Speaker 1: he Roade B fifteen in Winston County, Alabama. After talking
Speaker 1: to locals, the Coleman County Sheriff's Office learned that David
Speaker 1: had last been seen at the Jet PEP gas station
Speaker 1: on Highway one fifty seven in Battleground, Alabama, on June
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, two thousand and seven. After that, David seems
Speaker 1: to have just disappeared. Has not been seen or heard
Speaker 1: from since. According to locals, David's car may have been
Speaker 1: there since July seventh, two thousand and seven, and wasn't
Speaker 1: reported or properly noted until over a month later. According
Speaker 1: to the Charlie Project, the red Toyota Tursell was out
Speaker 1: of gas and the battery was missing. Apart from that,
Speaker 1: there was no signs of a struggle or any indication
Speaker 1: that anything untoward had happened. Sadly, David left behind six
Speaker 1: children and other family members who are all desperate for answers.
Speaker 1: His profile on the Charlie Project reads David's mother, sister,
Speaker 1: and six children all stated he would not have left
Speaker 1: of his own accord, and they think he may have
Speaker 1: met with foul play. They stated he had enemies who
Speaker 1: could have armed him. David Michael Burney, as we said,
Speaker 1: was last scene at the Jet PEP gas station on
Speaker 1: Highway one fifty seven in Battleground, Alabama. He's described as
Speaker 1: a white male with gray brown hair, brown hazel eyes,
Speaker 1: stands five four to five seven and weighs between one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five to one hundred and sixty five pounds.
Speaker 1: David has several tattoos on his right arm, a scar
Speaker 1: on his right arm, and a brown birthmark on the
Speaker 1: front of his neck underneath his chin. He's also missing
Speaker 1: several teeth. Anyone with information has asked to please contact
Speaker 1: Ronnie Melton, the Captain of investigations with the Coleman County
Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office, at two five six seven three four zero
Speaker 1: three four to two in reference case seven zero eight
Speaker 1: zero zero zero nine to one. Next the disappearance of
Speaker 1: Nita Mayo. Sixty four year old Mayo was a hard
Speaker 1: working and loving woman who cared for not just her family,
Speaker 1: but others during their time of need. Nita worked as
Speaker 1: a Licensed Practical Nurse or LPN at Mount Grant General
Speaker 1: Hospital Clinic in Hawthorne, Nevada, and everyone who met her
Speaker 1: simply adored her. Nita also loved the great outdoors and
Speaker 1: loved to drive into nature and explore. Her daughter Tracy
Speaker 1: told COLO TV getting to know all parts of the
Speaker 1: United States was something she enjoyed, and she loved scenery.
Speaker 1: She was always putting us in the car and just
Speaker 1: driving to discover things. On August eighth, two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: Nita hopped into her silver nineteen ninety seven Mercury Sable
Speaker 1: and headed for Sonora, California, to do a bit of shopping.
Speaker 1: Nita had the day off work, so she met up
Speaker 1: with a friend to have breakfast, and by eleven am
Speaker 1: the two were done in Nita was on her way
Speaker 1: to California. Nita was excited about her trip as it
Speaker 1: would take her over the Sonora Pass, a beautiful mountain
Speaker 1: road in California. The road has only opened at certain
Speaker 1: time times of the year due to the weather, and
Speaker 1: lucky for Nita, it was opened in August of two
Speaker 1: thousand and five. When Nita failed to show up for
Speaker 1: work on August nine, two thousand and five, however, her
Speaker 1: coworkers knew that something was very, very wrong. Nita was
Speaker 1: dedicated to her job and was considered a dependable and
Speaker 1: well respected nurse. It was extremely out of character for
Speaker 1: her to not show up to work without even calling in.
Speaker 1: When her colleagues tried to call her home and received
Speaker 1: no answer, they called Nita's next to Ken her children
Speaker 1: to inform them that they had been unable to make
Speaker 1: contact with their mother. After hearing this news, her four
Speaker 1: children made the decision to report their mother missing, and
Speaker 1: soon County Sheriff's office launched an investigation. Her children were
Speaker 1: concerned that she may have had an accident on the
Speaker 1: road between Hawthorne and Sonora. Despite lengthy searches throughout the
Speaker 1: day and night, no sign of Nita was found. Then,
Speaker 1: just two days after she mysteriously disappeared, a shocking discovery
Speaker 1: was made. On August tenth, two thousand and five. Nita's
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven silver Mercury Sable was discovered in the
Speaker 1: parking lot at Donell's Vista in the Stanslaw National Forest.
Speaker 1: Part of this area is a lookout over Route one
Speaker 1: Oay that Nita would have driven down to get to
Speaker 1: and from Sonora and Hawthorne. Bizarrely, her car was found
Speaker 1: locked with her keys, handbag, purse, ID and phone all
Speaker 1: neatly tucked away inside. There were other items in the car.
Speaker 1: The only thing that was missing was the camera that
Speaker 1: she had taken with her to take pictures of her trip.
Speaker 1: Despite numerous searches from both the air and on the ground.
Speaker 1: No sign of Nita Mao has ever been discovered. Sniffer
Speaker 1: dogs were brought in, however, they were unable to follow
Speaker 1: hercent for more than a few yards. According to the
Speaker 1: Charlie Project, Jewel Gene Rice was mentioned in connection with
Speaker 1: Nita's case on Nita's Charlie Project profile. It reads. In
Speaker 1: September two thousand and five, authorities announced they were seeking
Speaker 1: Jewel Gene Rice in connection with Mayo's disappearance. She is
Speaker 1: not being called a suspect in Nita's case, but investigators
Speaker 1: believe that she is a person of interest and may
Speaker 1: have some valuable information. Police stated Rice's vehicle had mechanical
Speaker 1: problems in the Sonora Era on the day Nita disappeared,
Speaker 1: and she was going around asking people for help. Despite
Speaker 1: all this information and developments, however, the police are still
Speaker 1: no closer to solving the mystery of what happened to
Speaker 1: Nita male on that sunny August afternoon. Nita was last
Speaker 1: seen in Hawthorne, Nevada, on August eight, two thousand and five.
Speaker 1: She speaks of the British accent, although the particular accent
Speaker 1: is not specified, as there are actually one hundreds of
Speaker 1: British accents and she is a British national. She is
Speaker 1: described as a white female with brown hair, brown hazel eyes,
Speaker 1: around five foot tall and one hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 1: Nita wears oval shaped prescription glasses with gold wire frames
Speaker 1: and has her ears pierced. She was last seen wearing
Speaker 1: a gold mother's ring with a paradot pinkstone, a bluestone
Speaker 1: and a purple stone on her right ring finger, and
Speaker 1: possibly a Celtic style silver necklace and a silver style
Speaker 1: necklace with one blue and two pink stones and a
Speaker 1: small pendant. Anyone with any information has urged to contact
Speaker 1: the Tuolomee County Sheriff's Office on eight hundred two two
Speaker 1: eight three five ninety two in reference case zero five
Speaker 1: dashed two four zero six and lastly, who have the
Speaker 1: disappearance of Patrick Terrence Whaalan. Thirty three year old Patrick
Speaker 1: Terrence Whalen was described by those who knew him best
Speaker 1: as warm, spirited and kind hearted. Patrick was training to
Speaker 1: become a naturopath doctor and had recently finished his bachelor's degree.
Speaker 1: According to sources, he worked extensively with charities raising money
Speaker 1: for cystic fibrosis research and dedicated his time to those
Speaker 1: in need. When Patrick wasn't looking after the underdog or
Speaker 1: studying hard for his degree, he could be found hiking
Speaker 1: in the wilderness. In fact, his friends and family jokingly
Speaker 1: called him the Survivalist. Thanks to his many hours and
Speaker 1: hundreds of miles along the Pacific Crest Trail and in
Speaker 1: the Glacier National Park, the Blackfeet Tribal Lands, and the
Speaker 1: Columbia Falls region of Montana, Patrick was well versed in
Speaker 1: the outdoors and believed that nature had a way of
Speaker 1: healing us. The last time Patrick was seen or heard
Speaker 1: from was on November second, two thousand, when he was
Speaker 1: in Glacier Park in Montana. As previously mentioned, Patrick had
Speaker 1: been spending a lot of time in Glacier Park and
Speaker 1: other National parks and forests in the area. Reports tonight
Speaker 1: give an exact date, however, but sometime after November second,
Speaker 1: Patrick's car was found abandoned at the Lake McDonald Lodge
Speaker 1: restaurant on the US Highway eighty nine and State Highway
Speaker 1: forty nine, towards the eastern edge of Glacier National Park.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be until May twenty seventh, two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: that investigators would get their next big clue when they
Speaker 1: found an abandoned camp that Patrick had made. The camp
Speaker 1: was found at the Atlantic Creek backcountry campground along the
Speaker 1: north fork of Cutbank Creek, near bad Marriage Mountain and
Speaker 1: Middie and Grizzly Peak. Park rangers were able to make
Speaker 1: an identification quickly, as Patrick's personal items had been left behind. However,
Speaker 1: there was no sign of Patrick. Reports don't indicate how
Speaker 1: long the camp had been there or how long Patrick
Speaker 1: had been gone from the camp. By this point, Patrick's
Speaker 1: family knew that something terrible must have happened to him.
Speaker 1: They consider him a true survivalist in every sense of
Speaker 1: the word, and he had a kind heart, so it
Speaker 1: was very unlike him not to make contact with friends
Speaker 1: or family, or to just miss his classes. Unfortunately, extensive
Speaker 1: searches of all the areas mentioned previously have turned up nothing. However,
Speaker 1: his family are still holding out hope that one day
Speaker 1: Patrick will walk through the front door and that they
Speaker 1: will be reunited again. In two thousand and eight, his
Speaker 1: family held a vigil in honor of his memory and
Speaker 1: since then have continued fighting for answers. Patrick Terrence Whalen
Speaker 1: was last seen on November second, two thousand in Glacier Park, Montana.
Speaker 1: He is originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but was living in Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon at the time of its disappearance. Patrick has described
Speaker 1: as a white male with blonde hair hazel eyes. He
Speaker 1: stood six feet tall and weighed about one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty five pounds. The Charlie Project notes, according to his family,
Speaker 1: Patrick was displaying signs of middle illness, including obsessive behavior
Speaker 1: and paranoia. At the time his disappearance. He may have
Speaker 1: been wearing a short sleeved shirt and blue jeans, and
Speaker 1: he also wore wireframe glasses. Anyone with any information has
Speaker 1: asked contact park ranger Joe Fowler at Glacier National Park
Speaker 1: at four zero six seven three to two seven seven
Speaker 1: zero zero in reference case zero six NASH zero four
Speaker 1: zero one MIP or the Glacier County Sheriff's Office at
Speaker 1: four zero six eight seven three two seven one one. Well, folks,
Speaker 1: there you have it. What did you think of these
Speaker 1: strange disappearances? I look forward to your comments, but please
Speaker 1: keep it friendly and respectful. In the meanwhile, be good
Speaker 1: to yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there, and
Speaker 1: I'll see you just a little farther on down the trail,
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Stockton and i'll talk to you next time.