1 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: This is a studio both and production. 2 00:00:16,559 --> 00:00:17,839 Speaker 2: You know, it's weird. 3 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: There's the trees, there's. 4 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: Something you look like the tire tracks. You're going straight 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:31,440 this way, but it ended up the pool pretty had 6 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:41,960 an angler. Yeah, and that's like a really like if 7 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:48,520 he swore, he go at and swirl. Don't know how 8 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,240 he would clumb up. 9 00:00:49,399 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 3: I think he would do well. 10 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:52,679 Speaker 1: And why are you swarving adah? 11 00:00:53,439 --> 00:00:59,159 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that angle with those tire tracks, I don't know. 12 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,759 I'm not that spurt on this, but that doesn't seem 13 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:03,079 if it makes much sense. 14 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:08,760 Speaker 1: It's also like you almost have to intentionally get it 15 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:14,680 through these trees. It's like a car can fit for here. 16 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,799 Speaker 2: Maybe there, but you have to be very. 17 00:01:19,719 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: Intent about how you're doing it. 18 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,079 Speaker 2: I mean they were a little smaller back there. 19 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 3: Its like, but. 20 00:01:25,439 --> 00:01:28,359 Speaker 4: What you have to confare. 21 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,879 Speaker 3: This is true crime bullshit. 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,040 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Josh Hallmark, and this is a serialized. 23 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:40,519 Speaker 3: Story of Israel Keys. 24 00:01:52,319 --> 00:01:56,560 Speaker 1: Israel Keys admitted to moving, stealing, and disappearing cars in 25 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,640 conjunction with his abductions, murders, and robberies. He talked about 26 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,760 setting them on fire and submerging them in bodies of 27 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:08,280 water and as both credible reports of encounters with Keys, 28 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,319 and Keys's favorite media would suggest he was also likely 29 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,800 wrecking cars, either as part of the abduction process or 30 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:19,840 as a means to disappear a car or stage a 31 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,479 car accident. This is something that comes up in his 32 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:28,840 favorite movie, Death Proof, his favorite book Intensity by Dean Koon's, 33 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:31,840 and in the book Found in His Shed where he 34 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,759 raped and murdered Samantha Koenig. Mister Murder, also by Dean Koons, 35 00:02:37,599 --> 00:02:40,319 and that's a book we're going to get into extensively 36 00:02:40,439 --> 00:02:44,280 this season because it's essentially a playbook for how Israel 37 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:50,639 Keys operated. In fact, if his mo is inspired by anything, 38 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:56,759 it's Mister Murder. As an example, Mister Murder uses a 39 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,400 homemade silencer in order to kill an older couple during 40 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,919 a home invasion. When he's done, he knows that he's 41 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,680 supposed to break down the silencer and dispose of its 42 00:03:06,719 --> 00:03:09,960 individual pieces in separate locations while on his way to 43 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,159 the airport, But after putting all the hard work into 44 00:03:13,199 --> 00:03:16,520 building his silencer, he's not quite ready to destroy it, 45 00:03:17,599 --> 00:03:20,719 so he drives fifty miles to another city in another 46 00:03:20,759 --> 00:03:24,439 state and uses it to rob a convenience store and 47 00:03:24,599 --> 00:03:31,000 kill the clerk, which is you know, familiar. In another chapter, 48 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,400 Mister Murder kills someone, steals his car, uses it to 49 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,879 commit a second crime, then abandons it in a parking 50 00:03:38,919 --> 00:03:42,759 lot of an apartment complex, and that's where he steals 51 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:45,759 a second car in order to return to his own car, 52 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:49,719 which was parked some distance from the original crime scene. 53 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:53,560 All this is to say, reading Mister Murder is a 54 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:58,039 surreal experience for anyone even remotely familiar with Keys and 55 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:05,120 his crimes. But I digress. Keys wrecking cars and staging 56 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:08,840 car accidents comes up a lot, not just in his 57 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:12,599 favorite media and interviews, but in The Name is forty four, 58 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:18,040 and even in cases we've previously discussed as possible Key's victims. 59 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,360 From the Name is forty four, Lori Anne Boffmann's car 60 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:26,759 was found wrecked and abandoned, and Tony Luzio's car was 61 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:31,519 eventually found submerged in a pond, although it wasn't recovered 62 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:37,279 until after Keyes's death. Then there's potential victims like Brianna 63 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:40,639 Maitland and Sheila Kathleen mac Broome, whose cars were found 64 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:45,120 abandoned with significant damage to them, Not to mention the 65 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:49,120 arsons of Jeremy Burt's, Kelly Sue Akronix, and John Hanneman's cars, 66 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,879 as discussed in the previous episode. Then, of course, there's 67 00:04:53,959 --> 00:04:57,439 the multiple accounts of people who reported that keys tried 68 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:01,319 to run them off the road. Ill Courier's co worker 69 00:05:01,399 --> 00:05:05,199 at the UV campus in two thousand twelve, a woman 70 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,480 who is driving on Interstate seventy in Colorado in two 71 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:12,399 thousand five, a woman on a rural Mississippi highway in 72 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:17,920 two thousand eight, and Mollie, whose detailed and highly credible 73 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,040 account of being chased by keys along Routes one twelve 74 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,720 and one O one on the Washington Peninsula has come 75 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:27,839 up numerous times across multiple keys media. 76 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 3: And as we. 77 00:05:28,879 --> 00:05:33,399 Speaker 1: Discussed in episode two ten, there's the suspicious grill guard 78 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:36,560 keys installed on his F one fifty truck shortly after 79 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:41,160 moving to Nea Bay. And finally, and perhaps most profoundly, 80 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,279 Keyes himself wrote about doing exactly this quite clearly and 81 00:05:46,439 --> 00:05:49,040 graphically in his suicide. 82 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:52,199 Speaker 5: Note where will you go, you clever little worm? If 83 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,199 you bleed your host dry back in your ride, the 84 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,879 night is still young? Should you like to push back? 85 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,879 The black neat rose off to the right a graveyard appiers, 86 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:06,720 lines of stones, bodies molder below. Turn away, quick, bob 87 00:06:06,759 --> 00:06:09,720 your head to the seat. As straight through that stop sign, 88 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:13,600 you'll roll. Loaded truck with lights off, slams into your broadside, 89 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,800 your flesh smashed as metal explodes. You may have been free, 90 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,680 you loved living your life. Fate had its own scheme. 91 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:27,279 Crushed like a bug. You still die. 92 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: I've long suspected that there are at least several Keys 93 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,680 victims whose cars were either in accidents or staged to 94 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:40,000 appear as though they were in accidents. And it's something 95 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,920 you can sometimes hear when listening to Keys discuss moving 96 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,639 cars and presumed accidental deaths. 97 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 6: There were a couple of times that I moved cars 98 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,000 and stuff of theirs. But it's not like I kidnapped dumbers. 99 00:07:00,240 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 3: Were they in the cars when you when you moved them? 100 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:06,120 Did you do that to cover up that hide the crimes? 101 00:07:07,199 --> 00:07:09,360 Was just to throw it? Yeah, throw it off for 102 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:14,759 a while, Right, said you did move their cars? 103 00:07:17,759 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, a car car that belonged to at least one right, 104 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,600 And the purpose just we went through that fast. 105 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 3: The purpose of moving the car. 106 00:07:26,639 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 7: They weren't in the car, but it was to do what. 107 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 3: Just to throw it off, distance it or whatever, just 108 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:39,360 to okay, moved it away from a scene or something from. 109 00:07:42,319 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 4: It always surprises me, you know, like some situations you 110 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:52,959 read about the paper, like so and so disappeared presumed 111 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,519 boating accident, for example, will they find their boat? 112 00:07:57,920 --> 00:07:59,959 Speaker 3: You don't know what really happened to that person. 113 00:08:02,879 --> 00:08:05,319 Speaker 1: And that suspicion is what led me to Foya, a 114 00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:08,639 case I stumbled upon several years ago while looking into 115 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,279 some of Keyes's earlier suspicious travels, specifically, in November nineteen 116 00:08:14,399 --> 00:08:18,240 ninety nine, car rental out of Tacoma, Washington. It was 117 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:22,439 Thanksgiving weekend and just six weeks before Keys was to 118 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:26,920 be deployed to Egypt for six months stay. He rented 119 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:29,639 a car from the USAVE Auto Rental at the mall 120 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,399 across the street from Fort Louis and disappeared for four days. 121 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,759 Although to say disappeared is not entirely accurate, because based 122 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:46,240 on FBI interviews in my own conversations with people close 123 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:51,240 to Keys, we have two very likely but unconfirmed destinations 124 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,480 for this road trip. His childhood girlfriend Annie's family's house 125 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:00,320 in Callville or his younger sister's house in Gresham, or again, 126 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,399 based on FBI interviews with Annie, In the late spring 127 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,200 of nineteen ninety nine, sparked by the death of her stepfather, 128 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:14,039 she and Keys rekindled their teenage romance, and while he 129 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,159 was stationed in Fort Louis, they began writing letters back 130 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,000 and forth again, and that summer Keys rented a car 131 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,639 and drove out to Callville to see her, And while 132 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:29,039 she couldn't remember specific dates, she told investigators that Keys 133 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,919 rented cars and came out to visit several more times 134 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,799 in the following months, although she doesn't call out any 135 00:09:35,879 --> 00:09:39,440 holiday visits, which you'd think one would remember more clearly 136 00:09:39,519 --> 00:09:43,399 than a random weekend. From what I've heard, it's also 137 00:09:43,639 --> 00:09:47,519 likely he was visiting his sister for Thanksgiving. She had 138 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,159 just eloped, moved to Oregon, and had her first child, 139 00:09:52,039 --> 00:09:55,279 and Keys was apparently visiting her often during this period. 140 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,519 In his own words, he was very protective of her, 141 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:04,519 particularly after she ran away from home and was essentially 142 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:09,039 disowned by the Keys family. According to the Keys psych report, 143 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,799 she's the only sibling he talks about having a bond with, 144 00:10:15,039 --> 00:10:20,399 and her birthday well, it's just a few weeks after Thanksgiving, 145 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:23,679 So while we don't know for certain where he went 146 00:10:23,759 --> 00:10:27,200 that weekend. We know he was almost certainly visiting a 147 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:27,759 loved one. 148 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 8: You talked once when the interviews about kind of having 149 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:37,000 trying to set up alibis during some of your crimes. 150 00:10:38,399 --> 00:10:40,080 Can you elaborate a little bit more on what kind 151 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:43,320 of alibis you'd set up and would you pass your 152 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,120 cell phone off to other people to hang on to 153 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,639 or different things like that, or is it more just no. 154 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:53,320 Speaker 3: I never was specific in anyone you ever passed her, 155 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:54,840 and a lot of stuff that I did with that 156 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:59,720 was no. I would do it. 157 00:11:02,399 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 6: In conjunction with something else that was going on in 158 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,399 pretty tight timeline, if you could say so that if 159 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:10,879 it ever came up, then. 160 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:15,039 Speaker 3: It's not like I would be in a situation where 161 00:11:15,039 --> 00:11:19,480 I had to explain where I was for days on 162 00:11:19,639 --> 00:11:24,480 end or something that was more along the lines. 163 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 6: But I never had any say. 164 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 3: Alibis like people who would would vouch for me or something. Now, 165 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,559 but the title I would make it look like it 166 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,200 was difficult for you to ride. 167 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: And that's what takes us to the strange car accident 168 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,879 that occurred near Mount Rainier on Sunday, November twenty eight 169 00:11:49,919 --> 00:12:04,000 of nineteen ninety nine. No one knows when or exactly 170 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:08,159 how Gary Shawn Bryant's car ended up in Lake Creek 171 00:12:08,279 --> 00:12:12,039 on the outskirts of Morton, Washington, Nor is it clear 172 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:15,480 when Geary was last seen prior to the discovery of 173 00:12:15,519 --> 00:12:18,960 his car, but at six fifty one p m. On 174 00:12:19,039 --> 00:12:23,360 November twenty eighth of nineteen ninety nine, Geary was reported 175 00:12:23,399 --> 00:12:26,919 missing by the Washington State Police after his car was 176 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,440 discovered wedged between a boulder and the banks of Lake 177 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:35,639 Creek near its confluence into the Tilton River. The major 178 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,320 discrepancy within the case files centers on Gary's date of 179 00:12:39,399 --> 00:12:43,519 last contact. On one report, it stated to be November 180 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:47,080 twenty eighth, the day his car was found, but on 181 00:12:47,159 --> 00:12:52,960 another it's reported as November twenty seventh, and unfortunately, neither 182 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:57,639 report specifies the details of that last contact, what time 183 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:01,720 it occurred, who it was with, where, the general nature 184 00:13:01,759 --> 00:13:06,480 of it. Five foot seven, Gary was thirty two when 185 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:11,240 he disappeared. He was married with three young children. He 186 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:13,440 was an out of work logger and lived in a 187 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:17,759 trailer in a wooded area along the Tilton River about 188 00:13:17,799 --> 00:13:22,039 three miles northwest of Morton. The status of his relationship 189 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:26,000 with his wife is unclear. She only comes up once 190 00:13:26,039 --> 00:13:28,200 in the files, and it was to sign off on 191 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:31,759 the release of his medical records. But based on real 192 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,360 estate records and background searches, it appears that Gary and 193 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:37,919 his wife may have been living separately at the time 194 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,360 of his disappearance, and while we don't have a lot 195 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,279 of information surrounding his last known whereabouts, we do know 196 00:13:45,759 --> 00:13:49,080 that upon the discovery of his car, the Lewis County 197 00:13:49,159 --> 00:13:54,279 Sheriff's Office sprung into action. Gary's car was discovered at 198 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:57,240 around six p m. On the twenty eighth, and a 199 00:13:57,279 --> 00:14:01,879 search of the surrounding area involving Helico cadaver dogs, search 200 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:06,519 and rescue, a dive team, and horse mounted officers began 201 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:11,000 at approximately eight a m. The very next day, But 202 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,679 despite seventeen people searching a nine mile span of the 203 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:19,320 Tilton River and its shores over ninety nine collective man hours, 204 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,840 not a single piece of evidence was ever recovered, including Gary, 205 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:31,720 and the cadaverdogs didn't hit anywhere, including the area immediately 206 00:14:31,799 --> 00:14:36,799 surrounding Gary's car. At some point between the discovery of 207 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,919 his car and the search the following morning, the Lewis 208 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,600 County Sheriff's office laid out a theory for what they 209 00:14:42,679 --> 00:14:46,480 believed happened. A report from the morning of the twenty 210 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,639 eighth reads as follows. The search request is a result 211 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:54,639 of a vehicle accident that occurred in Morton, Washington. During 212 00:14:54,639 --> 00:14:57,720 the investigation, it was believed that the victim, a white 213 00:14:57,799 --> 00:15:01,679 male approximately thirty years old, had failed to negotiate a 214 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:06,279 corner at approximately seventy miles per hour. The impact ejected 215 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:09,360 him out of the car into the rising Tilton River. 216 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,879 And while I suppose this could be a reasonable presumption 217 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:18,720 based on the scene, superficially at least there's a lot 218 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:21,639 about the state of the car, the road, the presumed 219 00:15:21,679 --> 00:15:24,759 accident occurred on the placement of the car in the creek, 220 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:28,879 and both Lake Creek and Tilton River that cast doubt 221 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:34,559 on this theory. And unfortunately, local law enforcement had tunnel 222 00:15:34,639 --> 00:15:37,679 vision when it came to the theory. They never looked 223 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:40,639 at this as anything more than a car accident. They 224 00:15:40,679 --> 00:15:44,519 never interviewed any one in Gary's life, they didn't do 225 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:48,559 a thorough analysis of his car. They just chalked it 226 00:15:48,679 --> 00:15:52,000 up to being a car accident. And by June of 227 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,840 two thousand, Gary had been pronounced dead and the case 228 00:15:55,919 --> 00:16:01,360 was cold. After going through through the files and photos 229 00:16:01,399 --> 00:16:03,799 over and over again trying to make sense of a 230 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:08,080 situation that didn't make much sense, French from the research 231 00:16:08,159 --> 00:16:10,679 team and I went out to Morton to see the 232 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:14,320 recovery site in person. But before we get into that, 233 00:16:14,919 --> 00:16:18,720 here's what you should know. First, Gary's car went into 234 00:16:18,759 --> 00:16:22,519 the creek, not off some main road or highway, but 235 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:25,600 off of a gravel road that essentially operates us the 236 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:30,519 driveway for a small ready mixed cement plant. There's no 237 00:16:30,759 --> 00:16:33,919 conceivable reason Derry would be on that stretch of road, 238 00:16:34,919 --> 00:16:41,240 let alone driving seventy miles per hour down it. Now 239 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,720 to be fair, the road Westlake Avenue is adjacent to 240 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:49,039 Highway twelve, but it takes a bit of effort to 241 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:52,120 get to it from the highway. This is by no 242 00:16:52,279 --> 00:16:55,600 means a situation where you're driving along a highway and 243 00:16:55,639 --> 00:16:59,720 then accidentally end up on some side street. From Route 244 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,200 to weelve, you have to make a ninety degree turn 245 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,440 on to seventh Street, then drive about seventy five feet 246 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:11,200 before making another ninety degree turn onto West Lake, and 247 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:14,759 from there you have to drive half a mile past 248 00:17:14,759 --> 00:17:18,119 a cemetery and a waste management plant before getting to 249 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:23,000 the alleged crash site. Essentially, it takes quite a significant 250 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,160 amount of intention to get to where Gary's car ended 251 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,599 up in the creek. Secondly, while Lake Creek and Tilton 252 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,240 River were in the midst of historic flooding at the 253 00:17:33,279 --> 00:17:37,759 time of Gary's disappearance, his car was only submerged at 254 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:41,079 its deepest point up to the top of his driver's 255 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:45,799 side wheel well, approximately twenty seven inches deep in a 256 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,720 narrow creek. Because the car was at a slant, that 257 00:17:50,799 --> 00:17:54,880 front end driver's side tire was the only tire in 258 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,240 the water. And Finally, other than a fairly minimal amount 259 00:17:59,279 --> 00:18:02,559 of front ends damage and a busted out windshield, the 260 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:06,079 car was in pretty good shape. It did not, by 261 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,319 any stretch of the imagination, look like a car that 262 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,440 drove off a steep embankment, through multiple trees and thick 263 00:18:13,519 --> 00:18:19,160 brush into a creek at seventy miles an hour. So 264 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:24,240 we had questions about the topography, the trees and foliage 265 00:18:24,279 --> 00:18:27,759 between the gravel road and the creek, the visibility of 266 00:18:27,799 --> 00:18:31,079 the car from the highway and surrounding areas, and the 267 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:35,119 tire tracks and skid marks that even in photos don't 268 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,799 really make sense. So just a few days shy of 269 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,839 the twenty second anniversary of Gary's disappearance, French and I 270 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,200 drove the half mile stretch of road, passed the cemetery 271 00:18:47,279 --> 00:18:50,720 to the cement mixing plant, and much to our luck, 272 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,599 as we pulled up, so did a friendly and talkative 273 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:55,960 cement mixer. 274 00:18:57,759 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 2: Do you know that this rook was recently? 275 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,799 Speaker 9: Yeah, it just got chip sealed this something. 276 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:05,160 Speaker 8: Was it dirt before then? 277 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,759 Speaker 9: No, No, it's it's up been kind of those drava 278 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,759 from there on and that's county though the city ends 279 00:19:13,799 --> 00:19:17,160 and then it's county except promote. It's really kind of weird. 280 00:19:17,319 --> 00:19:18,799 Speaker 3: And it's when the city's. 281 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 9: Down at that end of the road that this is 282 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:22,119 county to here. 283 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,799 Speaker 10: But they chipped. 284 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:25,000 Speaker 3: Heel the whole thing. This place. 285 00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 2: It's been operating the whole time. 286 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was actually it was not Cali Portland's. 287 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 10: Then they bought them out, No. Three in two thousand 288 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:32,319 and three. 289 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,559 Speaker 9: Okay, it was central ready mixed. 290 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:34,799 Speaker 3: At the time. 291 00:19:35,079 --> 00:19:37,079 Speaker 2: Do you ever have any problems with people breaking in 292 00:19:37,319 --> 00:19:37,680 or not? 293 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:38,599 Speaker 10: Here? Not here? 294 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 9: No, not in no long time. Somebody screwed with it, 295 00:19:41,519 --> 00:19:43,079 like twenty years ago. 296 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 3: But that's what they do. 297 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 9: Oh, I think they were trying to break in, you know, 298 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:51,559 but it didn't. Was the gate here at the time, Yeah, yeah, 299 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:52,559 we're always at the gate. 300 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 4: How'd they get through the game? 301 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:57,920 Speaker 9: Well, they can just park out here and then park 302 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:58,480 over the game. 303 00:19:58,599 --> 00:19:59,559 Speaker 3: They're not a high fence. 304 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,279 Speaker 9: Since then, we put in security in the buildings and 305 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:06,480 emotion sensors. 306 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,640 Speaker 1: Unfortunately, he wasn't working at that particular plant when Gary 307 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:20,440 went missing, so he didn't have any information about the disappearance. However, 308 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,759 his comments about the scene being just outside of town 309 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:29,079 jurisdiction and in county territory were both interesting and familiar. 310 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,599 It's something we know that keys played around with jurisdictional 311 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:38,759 lines that could muddel investigations. In fact, earlier that morning, 312 00:20:39,599 --> 00:20:42,759 I'd been at Lake Quinault, where del mar samples car 313 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:46,799 was recovered along the Quinault River, and much like Gary's, 314 00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:51,119 del Mar's car was recovered just across the county line 315 00:20:52,559 --> 00:20:55,720 and at a clearly marked juncture from state to county 316 00:20:55,839 --> 00:21:01,160 operated roadway. Our new friend also mentioned that the plant 317 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:05,200 had been broken into about twenty years ago, around the 318 00:21:05,279 --> 00:21:10,039 same time that Gary disappeared, and he eventually expressed doubt 319 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,039 that someone could accidentally drive into the creek from Westlake 320 00:21:14,079 --> 00:21:21,039 Avenue and then somehow disappeared completely. And he wasn't the 321 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,480 only one. As French and I walked along the creek, 322 00:21:24,839 --> 00:21:28,519 we ran into a local who was smoking under the 323 00:21:28,599 --> 00:21:34,960 highway overpass. Also, I don't think even if you're not 324 00:21:35,039 --> 00:21:38,200 wearing a seatbelt, I don't think you die in that accident. 325 00:21:42,039 --> 00:21:43,279 Speaker 2: Unless he ended up in the water. 326 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:48,799 Speaker 10: Pill Uh God, how you doing. 327 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:53,079 Speaker 2: Looking at a carcrat that happened. 328 00:21:52,759 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 3: Here or wok? You remember that? 329 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 10: Yeah from twenty years ago? 330 00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 3: Yeah? 331 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:07,279 Speaker 10: No, uh you know they then Ah, this was supposedly yeah, yeah, exactly, 332 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,839 Well but there didn't you even on the road. Maybe 333 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:25,279 couldn't foll That's how we're trying to figure out. Huh weird, Yeah, weird. 334 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:29,519 Speaker 2: So if this one supposed to be threw off the road, 335 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,519 got lodged in and then got into the river and 336 00:22:32,599 --> 00:22:33,559 they were up the count. 337 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 10: Really, yeah, so that's the And there was no blood 338 00:22:37,599 --> 00:22:38,799 evidence or anywhere. 339 00:22:39,799 --> 00:22:40,880 Speaker 5: You never found the person. 340 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 6: Noah, that said ended up in the recreating them how 341 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:46,519 they lived anywhere? 342 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:51,680 Speaker 2: I taught you they Yeah, Mike, blood in the wooden 343 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:54,359 shield didn't end up on the other side as far 344 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:57,400 as like that a dud angle, So I don't know. 345 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:59,559 Speaker 1: But then this guy that we're looking into, he was 346 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:01,480 in the area at the time too. 347 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,039 Speaker 2: Really, yeah, that's. 348 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,319 Speaker 1: Suspicious. 349 00:23:06,519 --> 00:23:08,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, i'd say, very dismissive. 350 00:23:09,559 --> 00:23:10,839 Speaker 5: Yeah, how'd you get ejected? 351 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:14,079 Speaker 2: And then the matt managed to float all the way 352 00:23:14,079 --> 00:23:14,359 down the. 353 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,799 Speaker 10: Creek under the river and gone, And yeah, that's highly. 354 00:23:19,079 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 3: High. 355 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:27,559 Speaker 1: God, it's highly unlikely for a lot of reasons. For one, 356 00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:31,160 Gary would have needed to not only be ejected from 357 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:34,640 the car through the windshield of his early eighties Mercury Cougar, 358 00:23:35,279 --> 00:23:37,680 but he'd have to be ejected more than four and 359 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,559 a half feet across the hood of the car, and 360 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,039 from there he'd have to float approximately five hundred feet 361 00:23:45,839 --> 00:23:50,359 down a narrow and serpentine creek before even getting to 362 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,480 the tilt and river. But the most unbelievable thing about 363 00:23:54,519 --> 00:23:57,640 the scene is how Gary's car even got to where 364 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,039 it ended up. And it wasn't just the four of 365 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,240 us at the creek that day who were suspicious about 366 00:24:04,319 --> 00:24:12,880 this alleged accident scene. If one thing knows its tire tracks, 367 00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:16,359 because if it's keys, I'm assuming he's putting it in 368 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,039 neutral and pushing it down here. 369 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing, Like I think the tire tracks 370 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:24,200 are just like too perfect. 371 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,519 Speaker 11: Yeah right, Like Mike, like. 372 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:42,680 Speaker 2: I could see him, like, how would you go getting 373 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:44,160 the tire tracks and. 374 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:48,119 Speaker 8: Then mutual and roll it down. 375 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:51,519 Speaker 2: Because it I feel like it certainly makes more sense 376 00:24:51,519 --> 00:24:53,200 that it would roll down there and then. 377 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:54,839 Speaker 9: Get lodged in the way it did it. 378 00:24:55,079 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 10: Yeah, if you're rolling seventy, I mean this is enough 379 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:00,319 the whole. 380 00:25:00,519 --> 00:25:02,559 Speaker 2: That's how enough of a root that you could cover 381 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:10,720 the ground and even give like all or something. I 382 00:25:10,839 --> 00:25:13,599 don't thinking that amount of invention in the roof just 383 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,880 getting stuck y in the countia tip into the water 384 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,559 and there's not a lot of damage with the body 385 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:22,079 clock just like it looks like. 386 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,079 Speaker 10: If that roll in. 387 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:33,240 Speaker 1: So here's the thing about those tire tracks. They lead 388 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:39,079 directly into a tree, a large and very old tree 389 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:42,599 that you can even see in the photos from nineteen 390 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,000 ninety nine. And between the end of those tracks and 391 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:49,599 the tree was a fence which is still broken to 392 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:56,640 this day, and essentially a short cliff into French's Point. 393 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,240 A car going seventy miles per hour or even forty 394 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,440 miles per hour is likely going to flip. But what 395 00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:08,799 it's not going to do is somehow get down this 396 00:26:09,039 --> 00:26:15,759 cliff and then drive around another tree. I had Kaz, 397 00:26:15,839 --> 00:26:18,799 another researcher for the show who recently worked on a 398 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:24,000 crash reconstruction case way in on those skid marks, and 399 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:27,279 here's what she had to say. If those skid marks 400 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,799 belonged to his car, he was not going seventy miles 401 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:34,160 per hour like the file indicates. The skid marks would 402 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:36,519 have been darker getting lighter to the front of the 403 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,480 marks if he applied the brakes. The only way for 404 00:26:39,599 --> 00:26:41,920 him to go over the cliff at seventy miles per 405 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:45,920 hour is if he didn't break at all. Also, I 406 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,079 think it's logical deposit that if he was skidding out 407 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,319 around the curve, the car would have started to rotate 408 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:57,480 even slightly and rolled down the hill, as opposed to 409 00:26:57,599 --> 00:27:01,440 taking a header off the road, which is what French 410 00:27:01,519 --> 00:27:05,279 and I and our new friends thought. There's also the 411 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,240 matter of the other three trees between the car and 412 00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:13,000 Westlake Avenue. There are four fir trees between the road 413 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,720 and the creek bed. All four are in the nineteen 414 00:27:16,799 --> 00:27:21,720 ninety nine photos and are still there, and undamaged to 415 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:25,319 this day, and we couldn't think of a reasonable way 416 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,759 that a person could accidentally crash through the fence, through 417 00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:33,400 those trees and get to wear Carrie's car ended up. 418 00:27:34,039 --> 00:27:39,000 It would take intention and precision, and most importantly, the 419 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,240 car would have to be entering from the exact opposite 420 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:45,519 angle that Gary's car would have gone in had he 421 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:50,119 failed to negotiate the corner. There was also no glass 422 00:27:50,279 --> 00:27:53,400 or blood anywhere on the hood of the car, not 423 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:57,519 a single shard nor drop. If someone got into this 424 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,799 accident and flew through the windshear, you'd think there'd be 425 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,440 some evidence of that at the scene, especially given that 426 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:08,640 the creek water only went at its highest to the 427 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:13,200 front driver's side wheel well. And finally, beyond what it 428 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,759 would take for Gary to get to that particular stretch 429 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,279 of road, and the complete and utter lack of reason 430 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:20,799 for him to be there in the first place, there's 431 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:24,880 no way he could have mistaken Westlake Avenue for the Highway. 432 00:28:25,519 --> 00:28:28,680 He lived in Morton for over a decade at this point, 433 00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:33,119 and most recently lived two blocks from where his car 434 00:28:33,319 --> 00:28:41,160 was found. Within the case files, which are largely duplicate 435 00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:45,160 copies of reports chronicling the search and copies of Bryant's 436 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,920 medical records, there is a single and somewhat ambiguous reference 437 00:28:50,039 --> 00:28:54,440 that at a minimum shows some level of skepticism around 438 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:58,559 the alleged car accident. It's a two sentence handwritten note 439 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,640 from the lead detective looking for case M M to 440 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:11,680 pick up Northwest Harrison area. Possibly a slingshot used. Unfortunately, 441 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,119 that's the entirety of the note, and there's no indication 442 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,119 of why the officer thinks a slingshot may have been used, 443 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:22,000 or whether this was followed up on, and it's never 444 00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:26,799 mentioned again. But after doing some digging, I was able 445 00:29:26,839 --> 00:29:31,200 to determine that Harrison refers to Harrison Christian, which was 446 00:29:31,319 --> 00:29:36,200 a construction company several blocks down Westlake Avenue from Lake Creek. 447 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,839 I reached out to the Lewis County Sheriff's office for 448 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:43,319 clarification around the note and to ask some questions about 449 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,440 Gary's marital status and his last known contact. The officer 450 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:49,799 I spoke with had only recently been assigned to the 451 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,759 case and said that essentially, if I have the case files, 452 00:29:54,599 --> 00:29:57,920 I know what he knows. He had no information on 453 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,720 the slingshot. Bryant's person nor his last known contact, but 454 00:30:03,839 --> 00:30:07,200 he did say this he thought the photos of the 455 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:12,079 accident scene didn't make sense. The photos didn't line up 456 00:30:12,519 --> 00:30:17,960 with the narrative, and the seats they appeared to be 457 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:23,240 pushed all the way back. Gary Shawn Bryant was five 458 00:30:23,319 --> 00:30:30,880 foot seven. On November twenty ninth, the day after Gary's 459 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,240 car was recovered and the day the search was being conducted, 460 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,319 a rural convenience store forty miles north of Morton was 461 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,640 robbed at gunpoint at around six thirty pm. According to 462 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:46,240 the Tacoma News Tribune, a young man walked into the 463 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:49,240 store and bought a beverage. After paying for the drink, 464 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:51,920 he ordered the female clerk to keep the register open, 465 00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:56,079 at which point he reached in and emptied it. While 466 00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:59,200 the robber was emptying the register, the store's owner entered 467 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:01,440 the area from the kitchen and chased him out of 468 00:31:01,519 --> 00:31:05,000 the store. The robber got away with all the register's 469 00:31:05,119 --> 00:31:08,720 money and ran through a wooded area to a nearby church, 470 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,920 where he was seen speeding away in a Chevy astro van. 471 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,960 And while there's no video surveillance nor a detailed description 472 00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:20,880 of the robber, the account sounds very similar to this 473 00:31:21,039 --> 00:31:22,519 interview with keys. 474 00:31:24,839 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 6: Armed robberies. That's those days. That's better, especially if it's 475 00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:38,680 like a small town. Remember the first one I did 476 00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:43,200 and was freaked out, and. 477 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 3: But then once I got in there and actually I 478 00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:59,400 was doing it. I remember one of the ladies at 479 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:00,319 the counters, she was. 480 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:04,119 Speaker 6: About the same age as my mom, and just the 481 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:08,440 look on her face and was like, I still think 482 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:08,880 about that. 483 00:32:09,359 --> 00:32:12,400 Speaker 3: I think she couldn't believe it. Not just that, but 484 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:16,799 she was just terrified. You know. It's like and I 485 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,559 hadn't really done anything. It wasn't even like it was. 486 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:25,720 It wasn't that crazy of a robbery. 487 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:26,279 Speaker 10: It was just. 488 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 3: Where was that at? That was a long time ago? 489 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,720 When was that? 490 00:32:53,759 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 6: I'm always surprised that as much stuff of that as 491 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,079 I've done, I'd always crossed my mind that at some 492 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:07,319 point somebody's gonna have a gun. And I knew that 493 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,000 like the full time, and for some reason, like you 494 00:33:10,119 --> 00:33:11,839 kept telling myself, I was like, you really need to 495 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:14,039 get a bullet proofess, cause one of these days, somebody's 496 00:33:14,039 --> 00:33:14,720 gonna have a gun. 497 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,119 Speaker 3: I just never did. I don't know, did anyone ever 498 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:25,200 pull a gun on you? No? So how old were 499 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:58,720 you with the personal robbery. I don't remember. Was it 500 00:33:58,839 --> 00:34:03,960 before this instead of what you or? Yeah it was 501 00:34:04,039 --> 00:34:10,199 in Washington? Was a store or a bank like a store? Yeah? 502 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:21,280 It was just sure do you remember the name? Yeah? 503 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,719 What do you remember? Why? Why did you do that? 504 00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:28,119 Has it? I mean, I don't know. Was it for 505 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,079 money then or still? 506 00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:31,199 Speaker 10: Well? 507 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,239 Speaker 3: It was for money? But do you know how much 508 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,800 money you got? No, it wasn't very much. 509 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,599 Speaker 1: In Tupper Lake, Keys ran from the bank through the 510 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:49,320 woods to a school where his car was parked. In Alito, 511 00:34:50,079 --> 00:34:52,719 Keys parked his car at a nearby church to watch 512 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:56,960 the Alito house burn down. Keys talked about schools and 513 00:34:57,079 --> 00:35:00,440 churches a lot. He knew them as places that were 514 00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:05,159 generally empty at night, with little to no security, where 515 00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:07,639 you could park a car for extended periods of time 516 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,880 without looking suspicious. And they both come up a lot 517 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,519 in cases we've looked at. Susie Lyle is believed to 518 00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:20,199 have disappeared from the Sunni campus. Laurence Spear was last 519 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:24,199 seen several blocks from both a middle school and Indiana University. 520 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,920 Kimberly Ann Forbes's house was separated from a church by 521 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:33,400 a large wooded area. Giovanna Tyler lived across the street 522 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,519 from a school. Sheila Kathleen mac Broom's church was burned 523 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:42,239 down several months before she disappeared. Keys admitted to escaping 524 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,719 a different bank robbery through a school parking lot. Kelley 525 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,440 Sue Acronet was last seen at a rite aid, which 526 00:35:49,599 --> 00:35:53,360 was also separated from a nearby church by a large 527 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,039 wooded area. And Gary Shawn Bryant's car was found in 528 00:35:58,159 --> 00:36:03,760 Lake Creek, directly between a cement mixing plant and a 529 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:12,960 heavily wooded Mormon church. The route along I five from 530 00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:18,960 Gresham to Fort Lewis runs just past Morton, Washington, but 531 00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:23,239 if you're adverse to traveling interstates, the quickest route between 532 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,320 the two cities takes you directly past the alleged crash site, 533 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:32,280 the convenience store that was robbed, and the Morton laundromat. 534 00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:42,079 A hamper of laundry was found inside Gary's car. If 535 00:36:42,119 --> 00:36:46,280 you're traveling from Calville to Fort Lewis, however, Morton is 536 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:53,440 a little bit out of the way well usually. According 537 00:36:53,519 --> 00:36:57,480 to multiple reports, the snow Qualmie Pass along I ninety 538 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,840 was open but practically impassable over Thanksgiving weekend that year. 539 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:10,719 Snowfall had reached blizzard levels. Visibility was extremely low, and 540 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:15,320 there were long stretches of interstate covered in ice. The 541 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,400 fastest alternative route from the east side of the pass 542 00:37:19,119 --> 00:37:27,280 takes you directly through Morton. Keys returned his rental car 543 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:32,960 on the evening of Monday, November twenty ninth. It's highly 544 00:37:33,199 --> 00:37:35,960 probable he would have been in the area of the 545 00:37:36,079 --> 00:37:43,400 convenience store when it was robbed, and very plausible that 546 00:37:43,519 --> 00:37:46,760 he could have been in Morton or near Morton when 547 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,000 Gary Shawn Bryant's car went into the creek. 548 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,679 Speaker 5: Where will you go, you clever little worm, if you 549 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,840 bleed your host, dry back in your ride. The night 550 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,760 is still young. Set light to push back. The black 551 00:38:00,079 --> 00:38:04,000 neat rose. Off to the right, a graveyard appears, lines 552 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,280 of stones, bodies molder below. Turn away, quick, bob your 553 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,079 head to the seat. As straight through that stop sign, 554 00:38:11,159 --> 00:38:14,920 you'll roll. Loaded truck with lights off, slams into your broadside, 555 00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:19,159 your flesh smashed as metal explodes. You may have been free, 556 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,039 You loved living your life. Fate had its own scheme 557 00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:23,199 crushed like a bug. 558 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:23,880 Speaker 3: You still die. 559 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,119 Speaker 6: Drive it through. 560 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 7: A wo if I. 561 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,559 Speaker 11: Waste of stay. 562 00:38:55,719 --> 00:39:07,400 Speaker 7: List thrown out the corn and shroud bas ghostly realize 563 00:39:07,559 --> 00:39:15,400 I'm not getting older, but I'm not getting younger. Let's 564 00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:19,679 look different when I'm looking over my shoulder. 565 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:37,559 Speaker 11: Mountain mystery, love it all, love with it. It makes 566 00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:49,119 me wander, But why would I even got a sacred boy? 567 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,280 Speaker 2: I gotta get caught. 568 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,920 Speaker 7: Nothing really feels right, and I feel if I bishop. 569 00:40:18,679 --> 00:40:20,079 Speaker 11: I realize I'm not. 570 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,840 Speaker 7: Getting older, but I'm not getting younger. 571 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 3: Okay, let's look different when I'm luck at over from 572 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:31,840 my shoulder. 573 00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 7: Hey, let's look different when I'm lucky. When I'm lucky,