WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:06.080 Hello friends. This video was suggested by a longtime subscriber 2 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:09.640 and fan, Kendall Bergh. She writes in the comments section, 3 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:13.480 please do Crater Lake, Oregon. I'm an Oregon native and 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:16.440 would love to hear stories from my home state. Also, 5 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:19.280 I love your channel. Thank you for all the stories. 6 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:23.239 I love them well. Kendall, thank you for your comment. 7 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:26.480 We appreciate your kind words, and we also took your 8 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:31.320 request to heart. So Kendall and everyone please join us 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.719 now for five strange disappearances and mysteries from Crater Lake, Oregon. 10 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:36.560 Now. 11 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:38.719 Some of these stories can be found in my latest book, 12 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:43.159 National Park Mysteries and Disappearances, Volume three, The Pacific Northwest, 13 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.960 which includes Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It's available from Amazon 14 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.280 and Kendle and paperback format, and it's also available whoever 15 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:54.119 find books are sold. There's a link in the description. 16 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:58.560 Now on the Crater Lake first, I feel a little 17 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:02.560 background in histories in the way. Crater Lake National Park 18 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:05.519 was established in nineteen oh two and is located in 19 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.920 southern Oregon. In total, the park covers one hundred and 20 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:12.120 eighty three two hundred and twenty four acres, which includes 21 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:16.400 Crater Lake and its surrounding hills and forests. Many years ago, 22 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:20.000 Mount Mazama collapsed, creating a nearly two thy one hundred 23 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:23.400 and eighteen foot deep caldera that partially fills Crater Lake. 24 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.640 The amount of water in the lake is replaced approximately 25 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:29.000 every two hundred and fifty years by rain and snow, 26 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:33.000 which offsets the evaporation. This is the deepest lake in 27 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.760 the United States, measuring some one thousand, nine hundred and 28 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.560 forty nine feet. For maximum depth, it ranks ninth in 29 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.640 the world, while for mein slash average depth, it ranks third. 30 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.200 There are two small islands in Crater Lake, located near 31 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.040 the lake's western shore. Wizard Island is approximately three hundred 32 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:57.000 and sixteen acres in size, while Phantom Ship, a natural 33 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.640 rock pillar, is located near its southern shore. Because the 34 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:04.120 lake has no inlets or tributaries, its waters are some 35 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:06.239 of the purest in the world. Due to the lack 36 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:10.159 of pollutants. There are relatively high levels of dissolved salts 37 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.719 in the lake as well, jud it's high elevation and 38 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.560 influence from the Pacific. Crater Lake has a subalpine climate. 39 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.039 Summers are mild and dry, but winters are cold. And snowy, 40 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.080 with average snowfalls reaching five hundred and five inches per 41 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:28.360 year and maximum snow cover of one hundred and thirty 42 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.919 nine inches or three point five to three meters. It 43 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:34.840 usually takes until mid July for the snow to melt. 44 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.039 Even into the summer, hard frosts or possible in the 45 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.680 Crater Lake area. The surface temperature of the lake ranges 46 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:45.439 from thirty three degrees fahrenheit to sixty six degrees In 47 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:48.919 the summertime, the lake normally fluctuates between fifteen and sixty 48 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:50.039 degrees fahrenheit. 49 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:51.919 Now. 50 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.680 As a result of the collapse of Mount Mazama, Crater 51 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.960 Lake had no fish until man named William G. Steele 52 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:01.360 decided to stock it in eighteen eighty eight in order 53 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.120 to allow for fishing. The fish were regularly stocked until 54 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.280 nineteen forty one, when it became evident that the fish 55 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:11.800 could maintain a stable population without assistance from the outside. 56 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:16.080 Two fish species have survived from the original stocking, Cochetti 57 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:19.479 salmon and rainbow trout, with the salmon being the most abundant. 58 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:23.120 As part of its history, Crater Lake is also known 59 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:26.159 for the Old Man of the Lake, a full sized 60 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:28.960 tree that's been bobbing in the water for over a century. 61 00:03:29.719 --> 00:03:31.719 As a result of the low temperatures of the lake, 62 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:36.280 the decomposition of the wood has been slowed considerably. Crater 63 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:39.520 Lake is sacred to the Klamath tribe of Native Americans, 64 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.159 indigenous to the area. Generations ago, they told of it 65 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.439 being the crossing point between Skelle, a spirit from above, 66 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:51.000 and Lao, a spirit from below. Andrew lank Ford, author 67 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.479 of Haunted Hikes, Spine Tingling, Tails, and Trails from North 68 00:03:54.520 --> 00:03:57.919 America's National Parks, rights to this of Crater Lake. Lao 69 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:02.199 and Skelle fought gory battles here. Lao rips Skull's heart 70 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.360 from his chest, and Skull retaliated by dismembering Lao and 71 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.080 throwing the body parts into the lake. Ideous monsters gobbled 72 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:13.120 up everything but Lao's head, but the lake still holds 73 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:17.319 Lao's spirit. When stirred, he may brew up storm clouds. 74 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:20.079 When angered, he may peer in the form of a 75 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:23.040 giant crayfish that climbs up out of the lake, snatches 76 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.079 people off the rim of the crater that surrounds the 77 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:29.720 lake and drags them down into the water. So now 78 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.639 that we know what Crater Lake is, how it was formed, 79 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:35.399 and what it represents to the indigenous tribes of the area. 80 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:39.560 Let us look into the first disappearance, that of little 81 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:44.519 Sammy Bulky. In the early afternoon of October fourteenth, two 82 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:48.360 thousand and six, Sammy Bulky, aged eight, was playing near 83 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.079 the Cleetwood Cove area in Crater Lake National Park with 84 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:55.879 his father, Kenneth Bulky, forty eight. Sammy disappeared into the 85 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:00.000 woods after running up a cinder slope. Despite his passion 86 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:04.199 for life, Sammy was stubborn at times. Also as a 87 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:06.800 result of having a mild form of autism, he was 88 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.480 terrified of loud noises and bright lights. At the time 89 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.759 of his disappearance, Sammy stood four feet eleven inches tall, 90 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.800 weighed eighty five pounds, and had short brown hair and 91 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.759 brown eyes. The last time he was seen, he was 92 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.920 wearing a long sleeved black and green T shirt, jeans, 93 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.399 a blue coat, and red Swede slip on shoes with 94 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:30.600 rubber soles. While the little boy did have camping experience, 95 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:35.879 he had no formal wilderness survival training given his young age. 96 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.240 At around four pm that day, the Bulky family had 97 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:41.959 pulled over at a pull out five hundred yards east 98 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:44.800 of the Cleetwood Cove parking lot area and were walking 99 00:05:44.839 --> 00:05:48.439 north along Rim Drive. Sammy and his father were playing 100 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:51.759 hide and seek on a gravel slope and Sammy saw 101 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:55.160 some yellow that he thought might be gold. Sammy stayed 102 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:58.480 on the slope, refusing to come down, and as darkness approached, 103 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:01.480 his father walked to shortness to their car to return 104 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:02.839 to their Diamond Lake cabin. 105 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:04.399 Can Eat. 106 00:06:04.439 --> 00:06:08.399 Bulky chased after Sammy. Sammy stayed at least fifty feet ahead, 107 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:12.000 likely considering it a game. I never caught up with him, 108 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:14.839 his father said, and at that point he disappeared over 109 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.360 the top somewhere and I lost him. Within a matter 110 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.720 of hours. More than two hundred people were combing in 111 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.839 an area of about six square miles or four thousand acres. Dogs, helicopters, 112 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:27.879 and heat cents and cameras were used to search for 113 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.639 the boy for a week, but he was never found. 114 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:34.839 Authority said a helicopter crew spotted some tracks, but they 115 00:06:34.839 --> 00:06:38.600 turned out to be most likely animal tracks. After that, 116 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:42.240 the search continued intermittently despite heavy snowfalls in the area 117 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:45.519 seven thousand feet above sea level. The park gets more 118 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:48.720 than five hundred inches of snow per year. Although it 119 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:51.240 was unlikely Sammy would have fallen into the lake because 120 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:54.839 of obstacles on the slope, technical climbing crews searched the 121 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.480 slopes from the rim of the caldera down to the shoreline, 122 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.079 participating in the search for sar teams from Jackson, Klamath 123 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:06.000 into Shoots Counties. National Park Service searchers and trackers from 124 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:10.279 California at Washington and Oregon mount Hood and Mountaineer Rescue 125 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.560 teams were also involved, as well as volunteers consisting of 126 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.160 employees from the Bureau of Land Management and the US 127 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:20.079 Force Service. It seems more than a little odd that 128 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.839 a boy of Sammy's age, who was just slightly autistic 129 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:25.399 would run off into the woods without any reason at 130 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:27.959 all and continued going until he was out of sight 131 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.480 and hearing range of his father. Because it was cold. 132 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:33.920 This first instinct, we would think would be to turn 133 00:07:33.959 --> 00:07:36.439 around and return to his dad, especially if he was 134 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:38.639 calling for him, no matter how long he had been 135 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:42.759 hidden from him. Sadly, no trace was ever found and 136 00:07:42.839 --> 00:07:48.639 Sammy remains missing. Next up, we have a strange disappearance 137 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.399 of Derek Ingebrutson east of the Cascade Range in south 138 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:58.240 central Oregon lies Upper Klamath Lake, a large shallow freshwater lake. 139 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.319 Helican Butte over three thy eight hundred feet above the 140 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:06.120 shore of Crater Lake as a steep sided, dormant volcano 141 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:10.800 located twenty eight miles south of the Crater. Sometime in 142 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:15.319 the afternoon on December fifth, nineteen ninety eight, Derek Ingebretsen, 143 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:19.879 his father Robert, and his grandfather Bob sixty four, set 144 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.319 out for a densely wooded mountainside above Upper Klamath Lake, 145 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.480 about thirty miles north of Klamath Falls. They planned to 146 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:31.680 find a Christmas tree for the holiday season. Derek was 147 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.440 lost and never seen again. Because of his love of 148 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.480 the outdoors, Derek was known as bear boy even at 149 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.120 the age of eight. A week after he was born, 150 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.480 his mother carried him on a bear hunt in a pack. 151 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:46.759 In his youth, he hunted with his father and picked 152 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.679 mushrooms with his mother's father. On several of his mushroom 153 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.159 expedition outings. He had visited Pelcon Butte in the past. 154 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.960 The Ingebretsen family did not plan to go Christmas tree 155 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.039 hunting that year in the woods. Although Robert looked forward 156 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.759 to a family Christmas tree hunt every year. It was 157 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.519 his wife, Laurie, who convinced him to use an artificial 158 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.360 tree that year. Laurie wanted to keep the mess to 159 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:12.519 a minimum, but when a disabled neighbor asked for a tree, 160 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.279 Robert decided to go into the woods. Bob remembers tell 161 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:19.720 the group that since it was already two pm, it 162 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.200 would be dark around four pm. Since it was late 163 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.720 in the year, and he was driving along west Side 164 00:09:24.759 --> 00:09:27.879 Road in his red Toyota pick up on his way 165 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.960 to Rocky Point Resort. Bob pulled into a turnout at 166 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:34.240 mile post twelve. The three of them climbed up an 167 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.600 embankment into a pine forest, and Robert helped Derek get 168 00:09:37.600 --> 00:09:41.480 into his blue snowsuit. Derek walked behind Robert, who told 169 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.159 him to stay with his grandfather. Derek nagged his grandfather 170 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.399 that he wanted to catch up with his dad as 171 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:51.000 he chopped at small trees with his hatchet. At some point, 172 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.879 the grandfather relented and the boy headed off in search 173 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.679 of his father. With the darkness closing in, Robert and 174 00:09:57.679 --> 00:10:00.879 Bob met back up and ask each other where's Derek. 175 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:05.559 Robert recalls asking Grandpa Bob replied, I thought he was 176 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:10.720 with you. No, he was with you. Despite the steady 177 00:10:10.799 --> 00:10:13.879 falling of heavy wet snow, Robert turned on his heels 178 00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:16.639 and went back up the hill. He called out to Derek, 179 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.879 but no response came. Robert then flagged down a man 180 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.480 named Fred Hines, a motorist who was driving along at 181 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.879 about four thirteen pm, and requested he dialed No One 182 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:30.960 One so the authorities could be notified in the resort 183 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:34.080 two miles away from the area where Derek vanished. Hines 184 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.679 made the call. Over the course of two weeks, hundreds 185 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.000 of people searched through several feet of snow, using snowmobiles 186 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.360 and dogs to search for Derek. Lurie slept in a 187 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.639 donated camper van at the turnout, hoping Derek might see 188 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:50.919 the bonfire and come to her. Once she thought she 189 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.919 saw Derek waving and smiling at her. However, it turned 190 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:58.000 out she was just delirious from lack of sleep. Derek's 191 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.360 tracks were found by Robert, who Dad and other members 192 00:11:01.399 --> 00:11:03.360 of the family in the newly fallen snow in the 193 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:07.679 hours immediately following his disappearance. Apparently, Derek had laid down 194 00:11:07.679 --> 00:11:09.919 in a clearing near the road to make a snow angel. 195 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:13.159 When his bootprints were spotted near the spot where Robert 196 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.039 had last seen him. There had been a snowpile that 197 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:19.039 came by, and sadly, the tracks leading away from the 198 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:22.840 angel were obliterated. There were no tracks leading towards the 199 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:26.080 woods from the snow angel. A small area of trees 200 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:29.799 near the road was damaged by Derek's hatchet cuts. His 201 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:31.720 father was confident that his son did not. 202 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:32.639 Re enter the woods. 203 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.879 Early in the evening, five to eight inches of snow 204 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.159 had fallen on the point the candy wrapper was found, 205 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.720 and a makeshift lean to shelter was found made out 206 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.840 of branches. It was unclear whether the candy rapper or 207 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:48.559 the lean su with the handiwork of Dereck. Derek's family 208 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:50.200 believed that he had made his way to the road 209 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:53.759 and was probably picked up by a stranger, although this 210 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:59.159 explanation was for some reason dismissed by the sheriff. Bob 211 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.639 discovered a whole in the ice and a child's footprint 212 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:04.759 on the bank during the search. The next day, however, 213 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.960 divers searched this area and additional searches were carried out 214 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:13.039 during the spring thaw. However, nothing was found. Laurie and 215 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.120 Robert were informed sadly by the Klamath County authorities that 216 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.679 their son was most likely deceased eight days after he disappeared. 217 00:12:20.639 --> 00:12:23.720 During the next seven days, Robert Laurie at about one 218 00:12:23.799 --> 00:12:28.519 hundred volunteers stayed on the mountain. Speculation intensified that Derek 219 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.159 had been kidnapped. When sub zero temperatures forced the Ingabretzens 220 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:36.159 to end their search on December eighteenth, nineteen ninety eight. 221 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:39.120 Robert drove straight from his graveyard shift at work to 222 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:39.879 the mountain. 223 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:40.279 To meet Lourie. 224 00:12:40.360 --> 00:12:43.960 Every weekend for the next two years, these search areas 225 00:12:43.960 --> 00:12:47.639 were marked on a map of the couple. It was 226 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.279 widely believed that the authorities were too slow to arrive 227 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:53.120 at the scene the night Derek disappeared, which led to 228 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.960 criticism for the search and rescue effort. The search did 229 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.559 not begin in earnest until nearly five hours after the 230 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:03.039 first night on one call because the coordinator was reluctant 231 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:06.320 to interrupt a Christmas dinner at Molly's Restaurant for the 232 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:09.080 annual award dinner of the Klamath County Search and Rescue 233 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.759 Team before he was certain a rescue was needed. Despite 234 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:18.679 passing polygraphs, Robert and Grandpa Bob remained suspect in Derek's case. 235 00:13:19.080 --> 00:13:21.519 They at least thought to have been negligent in some way, 236 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:26.720 despite the grandfather's insistence Robert no longer spoke to him. 237 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:29.480 The blame for not finding Derek did indeed go to 238 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:32.200 the father, but the father felt the blame for losing 239 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:36.360 him went to Grandpa Bob Ingerbretsen was too overwhelmed with 240 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.799 guilt to even think of talking about it. Robert took 241 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:42.840 leave of work for several weeks, and Derek's family spent 242 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:45.879 thousands of dollars looking for him. They even paid for 243 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.720 psychics and a boat to search Klamath Lake. They eventually 244 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:53.720 went bankrupt due to these efforts. The authorities claimed that 245 00:13:53.799 --> 00:13:56.120 Derek had simply wandered off into the woods and died, 246 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.440 as remains had been scattered by animals. However, they Gingiabrets 247 00:14:00.480 --> 00:14:04.279 and family never really believed that, especially since no remains, 248 00:14:04.320 --> 00:14:08.240 torn clothing nothing was ever found. There was even a 249 00:14:08.279 --> 00:14:10.039 witness who said he had seen a man and a 250 00:14:10.080 --> 00:14:14.879 boy struggling on a highway nearby. Then in nineteen ninety nine, 251 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.000 strange graffiti was found scrawled on a rest area bathroom 252 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.679 near Burns, stating that Derek had been killed and buried. 253 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:25.200 It was later ruled a cruel hoax by the FBI. 254 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:29.960 The boy named Derek was found in Texas under unusual circumstances, 255 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:32.360 and he looked a lot like the Ingebrets and son, 256 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:36.600 but was actually a different person. Then later on in 257 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:40.600 two thousand, after several days of waiting for confirmation, a 258 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.679 bone discovered in Pelican Butte was identified as being from 259 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:47.759 a deer. In two thousand and one, the family mailbox 260 00:14:47.799 --> 00:14:51.440 received a handwritten letter. The letter read, I know who 261 00:14:51.480 --> 00:14:56.679 took your son. On July eleventh, two thousand, Frank J. Milligan, 262 00:14:57.039 --> 00:15:00.360 thirty one year old State Youth Authority worker, a ten 263 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:02.480 year old boy at a Dallas park and offered him 264 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:06.080 one hundred dollars to Moway's lawn. In Milligan's car, the 265 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:09.440 man asked the boy do you want to live or die? 266 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:11.840 Milligan bound the boy's hands with duct tape and then 267 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:13.840 forced him to walk down a dirt road where he 268 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.960 assaulted him. After this vicious assault, Miller left the boy 269 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.519 for dead. Despite the odds, the boy woke up covered 270 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:23.559 in his own blood and got to a road to 271 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:26.559 where a passing motors stopped to help him. In this 272 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:30.360 letter to the police and the Ingabretsans admitted that Milligan 273 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.360 had confessed to doing away with Derry. The letter arrived 274 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:38.519 at the Ingabretson home in late two thousand and one. 275 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:40.879 In another letter that arrived at the home in two 276 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:44.480 thousand and one, Milligan's cell mate claimed that Milligan had 277 00:15:44.519 --> 00:15:46.759 admitted to him that he had been the one that 278 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.919 ended young Dereck's life. A detective from the Oregon State 279 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:56.360 Police who investigated the Dallas case confronted Milligan. Milligan reportedly 280 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:59.320 confessed to the crime and agreed to lead investigators to 281 00:15:59.360 --> 00:16:03.519 the body. The FBI used ground penetrating radar to scams 282 00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.960 for bones at Silverfalls State Park southeast of Salem Morgan, 283 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.399 where Lourie and Robert drove for five hours. There were 284 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:15.639 no results. After several days of searching, an assistant district 285 00:16:15.639 --> 00:16:18.399 attorney told the Incabretsen that Milligan had agreed to plead 286 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.000 guilty to killing the young boy if they spared him 287 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:24.720 the death penalty. However, after Milligan was presented with the 288 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:28.080 paperwork a few days later, he refused to sign the confession. 289 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.919 Was Derek Ingebretsen abducted by Frank Milligan or someone else, 290 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.960 as the police believed, or did he simply die from 291 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.720 the cold or maybe even an animal tack. This mysterious 292 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:47.320 case remains unsolved. Next up, Charles mccullor, the melting Man 293 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:52.600 of Crater Lake. January seventh, nineteen seventy five. Eighteen year 294 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.559 oldest spiring photographer. Charles mccullor was a free spirit at heart. 295 00:16:56.840 --> 00:16:59.519 He was living in Virginia when he decided there was 296 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.039 so much to explore in national parks across the United States. 297 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.160 Charles was said to be very reliable and kept in 298 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.400 close contact with his family, even on the long trips 299 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:12.559 that he liked to take. Deciding to put more effort 300 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.519 into his photography and wanting to visit a friend in Oregon, 301 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:19.119 Charles packed a small backpack and left everything else behind, 302 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:23.079 even his beloved Volkswagen bus. He would make his way 303 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.240 across the country with the occasional bus ride, but mostly 304 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.799 by hitchhiking. He wanted to see all the national parks 305 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:32.640 in the United States, and one of those parks in 306 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:37.400 particular caught his attention, Creater Lake National Park in Oregon. 307 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:40.960 It was a convenient place from the start, as his 308 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.960 friend lived nearby. Very little facts surrounded this case and 309 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:48.200 Charles passed, so why he decided to leave at the 310 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:52.000 very moment he did is still unclear. What was clear, however, 311 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.279 by conversation he has with his father, was that Charles 312 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.240 wanted something different and he was going to start his 313 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:03.440 search at Crater Lake National Oregon. Charles mccullor would leave 314 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:07.400 Virginia the very next day. Sadly, this would be the 315 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.720 last time his family would ever see him. January eighth, 316 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:16.519 nineteen seventy five. Mostly hitchhiking across the United States, Charles's 317 00:18:16.559 --> 00:18:22.039 first significant stop was in Yuma, Arizona. Between January sixteenth 318 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.920 and the twenty second of that year, he had regular 319 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:28.160 contact with his parents, calling often to check in and 320 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:32.920 update them on his progress and future plans. On January 321 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:36.160 twenty ninth, Charles placed one more call to his parents 322 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:38.000 to let them know he had made it to Eugene, 323 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:41.519 Oregon and was staying with his friend. This was the 324 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.279 last call the mccullors would receive from their son. He 325 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:47.279 told his friends that he would be staying at Greater 326 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:49.880 Lake for two days because he wanted to photograph the 327 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:52.839 area's winter landscape, and that if he wasn't back by 328 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:57.039 February first, to send help. This was the last contact 329 00:18:57.160 --> 00:19:00.759 Charles's friends ever had with him. It was reported during 330 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:03.359 the search several people saw Charles around the Diamond Lake 331 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:05.680 area on the twenty ninth, and a man that was 332 00:19:05.680 --> 00:19:08.480 cutting trees close to the park had picked Charles up 333 00:19:08.680 --> 00:19:12.079 and dropped him off near the park entrance. Not being 334 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:15.200 from the area, Charles wasn't well versed with the terrain 335 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:18.359 he planned a photograph. The winter months the Crater Lake 336 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.720 could be very and unexpectedly harsh for the ill prepared. 337 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:24.160 In fact, it's not rare for the area to see 338 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.359 several feet of snow from one storm, and at the 339 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:30.480 time of charles disappearance, the weather report for Crater Lake 340 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.720 stated there was twenty four to ninety inches on the 341 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.759 ground the snow drifts of over twenty feet. Temperatures at 342 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.839 that time were well below freezing, dipping down into the 343 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:42.480 teens at night and just over freezing during the day. 344 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:46.720 Wind gusts themselves hampered search and rescue efforts, which were 345 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:51.039 compounded and made worse with a blowing snow Ebruay first 346 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.480 had came and went, and there was no word from Charles. 347 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.960 He was reported missing by his friends that day. The 348 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:01.000 search for Charles mccullor was underway at a rapid pace. 349 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:03.440 The teams knew they had to make haste as the 350 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.160 weather was already bad and was getting worse and wouldn't 351 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.799 hold for very long as there was a storm forecast 352 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:12.079 that night which called for more heavy snow and gale 353 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:14.279 force winds up to sixty miles an hour. 354 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:16.200 Round and aerial. 355 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:18.519 Searches lasted for that day and into the night and 356 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:22.359 early morning hours of February second. Search was called off 357 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.480 around two am due to worsening weather conditions. The search 358 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:29.640 continued intermittently over the next several days, although with a 359 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.480 scaled down number of searchers, again due to the weather conditions. 360 00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:37.559 Local police didn't contact them of Colors until February tenth 361 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:42.039 to notify them about their son's disappearance. Also notified at 362 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:46.000 the same time was the FBI. Both Charles's parents and 363 00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:48.160 the FBI made their way to the park and joined 364 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:51.400 in the search efforts. The efforts were still slow, though, 365 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:53.559 as the snow dressed in the latest storm were twelve 366 00:20:53.640 --> 00:20:57.680 feet deeper more, making it almost impossible to even find 367 00:20:57.720 --> 00:21:02.000 where Charles Camp may have been located. The initial search 368 00:21:02.119 --> 00:21:05.759 lasted for months without any sign of him being found whatsoever. 369 00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:09.640 Charles's father stayed at Crater Lake, camping by the shore 370 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:14.440 line throughout that spring and summer tiressly looking for his son. Sadly, 371 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:18.799 he never found anything. A full year and a half later, 372 00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.240 two hikers that were on the Pacific Crest trail made 373 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:25.000 a long turn and ended up twelve miles into remote 374 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:27.319 and boggy area of the park, where they came upon 375 00:21:27.359 --> 00:21:30.480 a threadbare and backpack that contained, among other things, a 376 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.680 Volkswagen key. The hikers marked the area with a piece 377 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:35.880 of clothing, then made their way to the ranger station 378 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:38.759 and informed them of what they had found, showing them 379 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:40.759 the area of where to go on a map the mark. 380 00:21:41.640 --> 00:21:44.640 While going through the contents of the bag, the hikers 381 00:21:44.640 --> 00:21:46.880 made a remark about the strange shaped key that had 382 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:50.079 been found. A part time park ranger that had been 383 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.920 part of the initial search for Charles named Mary and Jack, 384 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:55.839 happened to be at the ranger station that day and 385 00:21:55.920 --> 00:22:00.240 overheard the conversation. His curiosity aroused, he walked up to 386 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.680 the man and looked at the key. You remember the 387 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.079 flyers that were made when Charles went missing, and one 388 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:07.640 of the photos on the flier was of the key. 389 00:22:08.359 --> 00:22:10.480 It turned out to be an important piece of evidence, 390 00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:14.119 one they could link to Charles mccullor. A new search 391 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:16.799 party was formed and from the information given by the hikers, 392 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:20.000 they trekked into Sphagnum box in there that was a 393 00:22:20.039 --> 00:22:22.960 full twelve miles off trail of where Charles was supposed 394 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.079 to have been. The key that was found was later 395 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:30.319 matched to the one Charles owned. Further searches would turn 396 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:34.079 up a mysterious scene. Indeed, charles remains were found in 397 00:22:34.119 --> 00:22:37.400 a state of undress and only his lower half was left. 398 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:41.680 His jeans were un button and his belt undone. His 399 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:44.160 legs were broken at the shin bones and they were 400 00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:48.680 sticking straight up. His socks contained the sweet bones. The 401 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:51.119