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Speaker 5: Morning, secrets hidden in the mist, See starts, taste, keeps
Speaker 5: the fire burning, rare shoes.
Speaker 6: Hello friends. According to NamUs, over six hundred thousand individuals
Speaker 6: go missing in the United States every year. Think about
Speaker 6: that number, six hundred thousand. That's enough to fill several
Speaker 6: stadiums and more than enough to empty the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Now. Fortunately,
Speaker 6: many missing children as well as adults are found quickly,
Speaker 6: alive and well. However, tens of thousands of individuals remain
Speaker 6: missing for more than one year, what many agencies consider
Speaker 6: cold cases. By some estimates, perhaps as many as sixteen
Speaker 6: hundreds of these disappearances are within the US National Park System.
Speaker 6: Whereas the National Park System encompasses more than eighty four
Speaker 6: million acres of forest, mountains, deserts, and other wilderness areas,
Speaker 6: it's easy to see where these numbers come from. What's
Speaker 6: really puzzling, though, are the circumstances behind these disappearances, which,
Speaker 6: in many instances are beyond the bizarre. In this video,
Speaker 6: the ninth in our ongoing series, we'll discuss ten more
Speaker 6: of the strangest disappearances in not only our national parks
Speaker 6: in the US, but some from abroad as well, which
Speaker 6: points to this being a global issue. Now, let's begin
Speaker 6: number ten. Tom Simon Seth, sixty six year old Tom
Speaker 6: Simon Seth was last seen on May twenty second, twenty
Speaker 6: twenty one, in North Cascades National Park, located in Cedro
Speaker 6: Wooley s Gadget County, Washington. According to friends and family,
Speaker 6: Tom left on the morning of May twenty second, telling
Speaker 6: his wife that he would be hiking up the Hidden
Speaker 6: Lake Trio. However, by seven pm, Tom still hadn't arrived home,
Speaker 6: and Tom's wife rose holding the help of a friend,
Speaker 6: Mike Woodmancy, to help look for him. Tom had taken
Speaker 6: up hiking in the past eighteen months, and it had
Speaker 6: quickly become his new retirement hobby, according to those closest
Speaker 6: to him, and he often hiked with Mike Woodmansey and
Speaker 6: another close friend Mark Nelson. Tom had been invited to
Speaker 6: hike with Mike and Mark on the weekend that he disappeared,
Speaker 6: but he had declined, opting to go alone. When Tom
Speaker 6: hadn't returned home, Rose contented Mike to go up onto
Speaker 6: the trail and see if he could spot him, thinking
Speaker 6: he may have gotten lost or injured. However, as the
Speaker 6: hours passed and the darkness drew in, Mike knew that
Speaker 6: Tom's chances of survival were slim. He told Fox thirteen
Speaker 6: he was absolutely not prepared to be out overnight. He
Speaker 6: just had day hiking equipment, so that's why we had
Speaker 6: to jump on it and get out there. Between ten
Speaker 6: pm and twelve midnight, Mike and Mark scoured the hidden
Speaker 6: lake trail but found no sign of Tom. They slept
Speaker 6: on the ground and resumed their search of for As
Speaker 6: the morning sunlight slowly crept through the trees, they knew
Speaker 6: that they needed help, and the Scadget County Sheriff's Office
Speaker 6: were called and Tom was officially reported missing. The Scatget
Speaker 6: County Sheriff's Office, accompanied by a Scadget County Search and
Speaker 6: Rescue searched for Tom until May thirty, first, twenty twenty one,
Speaker 6: when the search was officially called off due to treacherous
Speaker 6: terrain and avalanche danger. Despite this, Tom's family still haven't
Speaker 6: given up hope and have set up a GoFundMe page
Speaker 6: to help the search continue. Number nine Adrian Alonzo Smith
Speaker 6: Forty nine year old Adrian Alonzo Smith was last seen
Speaker 6: on January ninth, twenty twenty one, after a friend dropped
Speaker 6: him off at the Drift Creek Falls Trailhead and sees
Speaker 6: Law National Forest, Oregon. The friend who dropped him off
Speaker 6: said that Adrian had a backpack and a hammock and
Speaker 6: planned to hike to other locations and stay overnight in
Speaker 6: the park. On January twentieth, twenty twenty one, Adrian did
Speaker 6: not show up for his scheduled pickup, and that's when
Speaker 6: his friends and family began to worry. Adrian was reported
Speaker 6: missing and search and rescue teams were dispatched to the trail,
Speaker 6: but found no sign of him during the initial investigation.
Speaker 6: Two weeks later, authorities discovered what they believed to be
Speaker 6: his campsite. However, no other personal items were recovered from
Speaker 6: the scene. Despite the use of drones, sniffer dogs, and
Speaker 6: cell phone tracking, authorities have been unable to find any
Speaker 6: trace of Adrian. One disturbing tip came into search and
Speaker 6: rescue teams in the days following Adrian's disappearance. One witness
Speaker 6: claimed to have seen Adrian's shirtless and the cold in
Speaker 6: the days after he had gone missing, creating a very
Speaker 6: warring scenario for friends and family. The search was temporarily
Speaker 6: called off at the end of January due to heavy
Speaker 6: snowfall and bad weather. Adrian is described as a white male,
Speaker 6: six foot tall and one hundred and seventy pounds, with
Speaker 6: brown shoulder lengthd hair and multiple tattoos, including a tattoo
Speaker 6: of wings on his back. Authorities are asking for anyone
Speaker 6: with information to contact him on five four to one
Speaker 6: two seven zero three four zero zero or five four
Speaker 6: one two sixty five zero seven seven seven number eight.
Speaker 6: Josh Hall twenty seven year old Josh Hall, along with
Speaker 6: his dog Happy, a Labrador mixed, set off on February third,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one for an eleven mile hike to the
Speaker 6: Devil's Thumb Lake area in the Indian Peak's Wilderness Park.
Speaker 6: Josh left his car at the Hessi trailhead set off
Speaker 6: between ten thirty am and ten forty five am on
Speaker 6: the morning of February third. The hike should have taken
Speaker 6: Josh around five and a half to six hours, meaning
Speaker 6: that he would have arrived back in his car at
Speaker 6: around four pm, according to his mother. His mother also
Speaker 6: told authorities that Josh had chosen to hike early in
Speaker 6: the morning as he had an online class at five pm,
Speaker 6: and when he didn't return home, she contacted the authorities.
Speaker 6: According to his mother, Josh's phone pinged at twelve oh
Speaker 6: three pm and in the approximate area of Devil's Thumb
Speaker 6: Lake from twelve thirty pm to one fifteen pm, Hikers
Speaker 6: in the area reported that a small snowstorm blew through,
Speaker 6: leaving inches of snow on the trails within a matter
Speaker 6: of minutes. It's believed that Josh was deep into the
Speaker 6: trail when the snow rolled in. Authorities were contacted and
Speaker 6: a team of seventy people made up of law enforcement
Speaker 6: and experienced hikers, brave the cold to search for Josh,
Speaker 6: battling their way through forty mile per hour winds. For
Speaker 6: four days, volunteers and law enforcement searched high and low
Speaker 6: for any sign of Josh, and on the fourth day
Speaker 6: the search was called off due to the worsening weather conditions. Miraculously,
Speaker 6: eight days later, on February eleventh, twenty twenty one, Josh's dog,
Speaker 6: Happy was spotted on the side of a highway close
Speaker 6: to where the two had been hiking. Happy was malnourished
Speaker 6: and scared, but authorities were able to rescue him and
Speaker 6: take him home to Josh's family. Sadly, nothing else has
Speaker 6: been recovered, but Josh's family are not giving up hope.
Speaker 6: Josh is described as a white male, six foot four
Speaker 6: inches tall and weighs two hundred pounds. He was last
Speaker 6: seen wearing a green khaki jacket, dark hat, and a
Speaker 6: gray green backpack. If you have any information, you're asked
Speaker 6: to contact the Boulder County Dispatch on three zero three
Speaker 6: or four one or four or four number seven. Cassie Sheets.
Speaker 6: On March twelfth, twenty twenty one, twenty four year old
Speaker 6: Cassie Sheets was reported missing after last being seen hiking
Speaker 6: in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Cassie, along
Speaker 6: with two male friends, had begun their hik on Thursday,
Speaker 6: March eleventh, with the two friends claiming that they were
Speaker 6: separated along the spruce trail. Sergeant Andrew Teeter of the
Speaker 6: West Virginia State Police told Metro News they started down
Speaker 6: a huckleberry trail from the top of Spruce and that's
Speaker 6: where they claimed they got separated from each other. The
Speaker 6: trio set off hiking on Thursday night into what is
Speaker 6: described as a remote part of the forest. After the
Speaker 6: trio became separated, the two friends made their way back
Speaker 6: to safety and waited until Friday morning to report Cassie missing.
Speaker 6: Search teams, including volunteer firefighters and the West Virginia State Police,
Speaker 6: use the helicopter and attempts to locate the missing twenty
Speaker 6: four year old girl. However, nothing was found. In June
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, the state police made a statement saying
Speaker 6: that they were no longer actively searching for Cassie, but
Speaker 6: were following lines of inquiry. In their statement, they also
Speaker 6: said that they are not speaking with the two male
Speaker 6: friends who were with Cassie on that hike, as one
Speaker 6: of them has obtained a lawyer. They also stressed that
Speaker 6: all leads are based on speculation and they have no
Speaker 6: concrete evidence. In Cassie's case, Cassie did not know the
Speaker 6: trail well and her family are concerned about her well being.
Speaker 6: If you have any information, you're asked to contact the
Speaker 6: West Virginia State Police Number six. Cayman Welch. The Maricopa
Speaker 6: County Sheriff's Office is appealing for any information about the
Speaker 6: disappearance of twenty five year old Cayman Welch. Cayman was
Speaker 6: last seen near Weaver's Needle Vista at mile Post two
Speaker 6: O three in State Route eighty eight in Maricopa County, Arizona,
Speaker 6: on August twelfth, twenty twenty. Caman has spent the day
Speaker 6: working with his uncle and Tortilla flats, and on the
Speaker 6: drive home, they decided to pull into Weaver's Needle Vista
Speaker 6: to watch the sunset together. According to Cayman's uncle, he
Speaker 6: told him he wanted to watch the sunset from the needle.
Speaker 6: He proceeded to get out of the car, walk into
Speaker 6: the Tonto National Forest and promptly disappeared. Tonto National Forest
Speaker 6: spans a whopping two million, eight hundred and seventy three
Speaker 6: thy two hundred acres and is the fifth largest national
Speaker 6: forest in the United States. The forest offers a wide
Speaker 6: variety of scenery, from desert flats to pine forest, making
Speaker 6: it the perfect destination no matter what you're looking for.
Speaker 6: Cayman walked into the Tonto National Force wearing nothing but
Speaker 6: a black Ghostbusters T shirt, black jeans, black prescription glasses,
Speaker 6: and army boots. He didn't take any food or water
Speaker 6: with him, and he was in no way equipped to
Speaker 6: deal with the sweltering temperatures that reached approximately one hundred
Speaker 6: and ten degrees in the area that day. When Kiman
Speaker 6: didn't return home, his family reported him missing and an
Speaker 6: investigation was quickly launched. Despite searchus using sniffer dogs, horses, drones, helicopters,
Speaker 6: and countless volunteers, no sign of Cayman was found. Kieman's
Speaker 6: family were also worried for his well being, as he
Speaker 6: suffered from depression that was in the process of seeking help.
Speaker 6: Caiman is described as a white male with brown hair
Speaker 6: and hazel eyes. He is six foot tall, two hundred
Speaker 6: pounds and has full sleeves, tattoos on his arms, and
Speaker 6: also has gauged out ear lobes. Kieman's family haven't given
Speaker 6: up hope, and if you have any information, you're asked
Speaker 6: to contact the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. On sixt zero two,
Speaker 6: eight seven six eight four seven to seven number five
Speaker 6: Samuel Martinez. Twenty three year old Samuel Martinez left his
Speaker 6: home in Nebraska on May twelfth, twenty twenty one, headed
Speaker 6: for Kawai, Hawaii. We know that Samuel safely board his
Speaker 6: flight from Nebraska to Kawai and landed that day. Samuel
Speaker 6: had embarked on the trip with the intention of hiking
Speaker 6: and camping around the island, with his return flight booked
Speaker 6: for May twenty fifth to twenty twenty one. May twenty
Speaker 6: fifth came, and when Samuel didn't board his flight to
Speaker 6: go home, his family became concerned. After contacting authorities in Kawai,
Speaker 6: their investigation uncovered that the last confirmed sighting of the
Speaker 6: twenty three year old had been on May fourteenth, twenty
Speaker 6: twenty one, and since that date there was no activity
Speaker 6: on his phone or on his bank cards. Authorities began
Speaker 6: their search after Samuel was reported missing, using helicopters to
Speaker 6: navigate their way around the island. However, by June third,
Speaker 6: this search was suspended. According to one source, searches with
Speaker 6: dogs and drones are due to continue in the near future.
Speaker 6: Samuel's family made an official statement to Omaha reporters saying
Speaker 6: please keep Samuel in your prayers and with these kind
Speaker 6: people as they search. Samuel is twenty three years old
Speaker 6: and is described as a white male, six foot tall,
Speaker 6: one hundred and eighty pounds. He has brown hair and
Speaker 6: brown eyes. Any One with any information is urged to
Speaker 6: contact the Kawhi Police on eight oh eight two four
Speaker 6: one one seven one number four. Stanley Shushinoff, sixty eight
Speaker 6: year old. Stanley's Tushinoff was last seen by his wife
Speaker 6: Dolores on May nineteenth, twenty twenty one. Dloris told news
Speaker 6: stations that on that morning, Stanley was leaving to take
Speaker 6: a height near the Sandy McNab camping area in Sheep
Speaker 6: River Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The Sheep River Provincial Park
Speaker 6: spends sixty point two kilometers and according to the website
Speaker 6: Alberta Parks dot Ca, visitors can hike, ski and ice
Speaker 6: gate during their stay. Delorus told Globalneeds dot Ca. I
Speaker 6: went to the door with him and I gave him
Speaker 6: a kiss, and I said stay extremely safe. I said,
Speaker 6: I'll be worried about you the entire time you're gone.
Speaker 6: Stanley was only going on a short hike and it
Speaker 6: promised his wife that he would be back by dinner time. However,
Speaker 6: when he never returned home, Delorus called the police. The
Speaker 6: RCMP and Calgary Police Service have both performed extensive searches
Speaker 6: for the missing sixty eight year old, and so far,
Speaker 6: the only evidence they have found is his abandoned car
Speaker 6: parked at the Trailhead. Stanley was last seen at around
Speaker 6: eleven am on May nineteenth, twenty twenty one, wearing jeans,
Speaker 6: plaid longsleeve shirt, shoes or hiking boots and carrying a
Speaker 6: Camo back back. If you have any information, you're asked
Speaker 6: to police contact the Calgary Police Service on four zero
Speaker 6: three two sixty six one two three four number three.
Speaker 6: Robert COOKSAI, forty two year old part time Butler County
Speaker 6: public defender Robert COOKSI was last seen entering Cummins Falls
Speaker 6: State Park at eleven thirty pm on February third, twenty
Speaker 6: twenty one. Cummins Falls State Park is located in Tennessee
Speaker 6: and spans two hundred and eighty two acres and the
Speaker 6: terrain is described as idyllic but rugged. The details in
Speaker 6: Roberts case are sparse, but what we do know is
Speaker 6: that his car was discovered in the car park after
Speaker 6: he failed to move it, garnering the attention to park employees.
Speaker 6: On February fifth, twenty twenty one, the park was temporarily
Speaker 6: closed while the TBI or Tennessee Bureau of Investigations performed
Speaker 6: in extensive search. However, they came out empty handed. The
Speaker 6: park was then reopen to the public on Sunday seventh
Speaker 6: of February twenty twenty one. According to one article, Robert's
Speaker 6: ability to practice law was suspended by the Ohio Supreme
Speaker 6: Court on January eighth, twenty twenty one, after he failed
Speaker 6: to respond to fur complaint. There have been few updates
Speaker 6: in Robert's case, however, that the TBI is appealing for
Speaker 6: anyone with information to please come forward. Robert is described
Speaker 6: as a white male with brown hair and brown eyes.
Speaker 6: He weighs one hundred and sixty pounds and was last
Speaker 6: seen wearing dark pants and a gray hoodie. If you
Speaker 6: believe you have some information, you are asked to please
Speaker 6: contact the TBI on one eight hundred TBI find Find
Speaker 6: number two. Damon Ness, thirty year old. Damon Ness was
Speaker 6: last seen on October twentieth, twenty twenty while visiting the
Speaker 6: Nitmluk National Park in the Northern Territory, Australia. On that day,
Speaker 6: Damon went for a walk alone in the national park
Speaker 6: and was never seen again, prompting twenty eight police officers,
Speaker 6: park razors and countless volunteers to begin the search for him.
Speaker 6: Damon set off on his walk with nothing but his
Speaker 6: phone and his car keys, with Superintendent Shane telling the
Speaker 6: Daily Mail he doesn't have his wallet. We have that.
Speaker 6: We know he doesn't have his hotel key. We've got
Speaker 6: that as well. That was left in the car. The
Speaker 6: alarm was raised after Damon fell to show up for
Speaker 6: a canoe tour he had booked for October twenty first,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty. Authorities searched for five days with druges and
Speaker 6: with the help of volunteers. However, no signs of the
Speaker 6: thirty year old were found. Damon's family wanted to fly
Speaker 6: up from Melbourne to assist with the search, but they
Speaker 6: expressed their concerns about breaking lockdown and potentially putting Aboriginal
Speaker 6: communities at risk. Damon's social media has not been updated
Speaker 6: since October twenty twenty, and Australian authorities are appealing to
Speaker 6: anyone with information to contact number one. Rob Martin. Fifty
Speaker 6: nine year old Rob Martin was last seen on Dvenal
Speaker 6: Road on John's Island in Charleston County, South Carolina. John's
Speaker 6: Island is the largest island in South Carolina, as known
Speaker 6: for its agriculture and angeloak, a tree that has estimated
Speaker 6: it to be possibly fifteen hundred years old. The details
Speaker 6: in Rod's case are extremely limited, but it's important that
Speaker 6: we spread awareness about this case and help bring him home.
Speaker 6: According to the Charleston County Sheriff's Office, Rod was last
Speaker 6: seen on foot on January tenth, twenty twenty one, wearing
Speaker 6: a burgundy jacket with an orange lining. He's described as
Speaker 6: a white male, six foot tall, two hundred pounds. He
Speaker 6: has gray hair, hazel eyes, and is well known in
Speaker 6: the Johns Island area. According to an article written on
Speaker 6: January tenth, twenty twenty one, bile play is not suspected
Speaker 6: at this time, and the Charleston County Sheriff's Office needs
Speaker 6: your help in locating Rod. If you have any information
Speaker 6: you as to please contact him on eight four to
Speaker 6: three seven four to three, seven to zero zero. Well,
Speaker 6: there you have it, friends, what do you make of
Speaker 6: these strange disappearances from within these national parks. I look
Speaker 6: forward to your thoughts in the comment section. Meanwhile, until
Speaker 6: we meet again, because you sell and each other. I'm
Speaker 6: Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time. Hello, friends,
Speaker 6: welcome to episode ten of our Unsolved National Park Disappearances.
Speaker 6: This video will bring you ten more insolved cases of
Speaker 6: people who went missing in national parks. Let's begin number ten.
Speaker 6: Sean McLaughlin. Twenty seven year old Sean McLaughlin was last
Speaker 6: seen on June eighth, twenty twenty one, by another hiker
Speaker 6: who told police that he saw a man fitting sean
Speaker 6: description in the park. Shawn had recently moved from his
Speaker 6: home in Dublin, Ireland, to Jackson, Wyoming, and was working
Speaker 6: to help support his adventures. Shawn's last moments are contested
Speaker 6: and accounts differ. An article written by The Irish Times
Speaker 6: wrote that the witness last saw Sean near the Surprise
Speaker 6: Lake junction, heading into Garnet Canyon, whereas another article written
Speaker 6: by The Independent claims the witness last saw Sewn on
Speaker 6: the south side of the Bradley Taggart Moraine and that
Speaker 6: he was headed towards Taggart Lane. Shawn was officially reported
Speaker 6: missing on June twelfth, after he filled a turn up
Speaker 6: for his scheduled shift as a snowboard instructor on June tenth,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, and at full investigation was launched. A
Speaker 6: day later, his car was found abandoned near the Lupine
Speaker 6: Metas trailhead. Park rangers and investigators pulled together their resources
Speaker 6: to widen their search. A gofunding campaign was set up
Speaker 6: two days after his disappearance to help fly his mother, Grona,
Speaker 6: from Dublin to Jackson. This campaign raised over forty six
Speaker 6: thousand euro and Shawn's mother was flown to Jackson on
Speaker 6: June twentieth to aid in the search for her sign.
Speaker 6: Becka Jostad, the acting chief ranger of Grand Teton National Park,
Speaker 6: told Irish Central mental health has not been a feature
Speaker 6: of the profile that we developed to try and understand
Speaker 6: where he might be. This looked like an afternoon, simple
Speaker 6: walk in the park. We're trying to keep a really
Speaker 6: open mind about where he might have gone, so we're
Speaker 6: looking in all the possible places. Sean McLaughlin was last
Speaker 6: seen wearing a white shirt, shorts and a hat. As
Speaker 6: described as a male solo hiker with shoulder linked hair,
Speaker 6: and he was also wearing round glasses. Despite searching over
Speaker 6: three hundred thousand acres with Grand Teeton Park, no sign
Speaker 6: of Sean McLaughlin has been found. If you have any information,
Speaker 6: please contact the Grand Teton Park Rangers on three zero
Speaker 6: seven seven thirty nine three three zero zero number nine.
Speaker 6: Tatum morrell Y three year old Tatum Morrell, a Montana
Speaker 6: State University graduate, last made contact with her family on
Speaker 6: July first, twenty twenty one via a satellite communicator. According
Speaker 6: to k TVQ, Tatum, efficially known to her family as Tate,
Speaker 6: had set up camp at Shadow Lake, close to the
Speaker 6: West Fort Trail near Red Lodge in the Custer Galaton
Speaker 6: National Forest in Montana. The Custer Galaton National Force both
Speaker 6: an area of over three million acres and seven ranger districts.
Speaker 6: According to the website, the forest has gateways to Yellowstone
Speaker 6: National Park and has activities for everyone to enjoy. Search
Speaker 6: As believed that Tatum left her tenth on the morning
Speaker 6: of July second, twenty twenty one, and was planning on
Speaker 6: scaling a twelve thousand foot peak that day when she
Speaker 6: failed to return. And had made contact with her family.
Speaker 6: By July fifth, twenty twenty one, they called park rangers
Speaker 6: and officially reported her missing. During their investigation, authorities found
Speaker 6: that Tatum had planned to scale five mountain peaks during
Speaker 6: a triptum. We told the newspapers that she was indeed
Speaker 6: an avid hiker, an outdoors woman, and had been training
Speaker 6: her whole life to scale these peaks. In a statement,
Speaker 6: they also added Tate was a fiercely independent, adventurous soul
Speaker 6: who loved the mountains. Search and rescue teams were dispatched
Speaker 6: on July fifth to twenty twenty one. However, so far,
Speaker 6: no sign of Tatum has been found. Incident Commander Tom
Speaker 6: Cooks believes that Tatum is no longer live, telling reporters, Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: there are hundreds of thousands of places that Tate could
Speaker 6: have gotten into trouble on these rugged mountains when the
Speaker 6: storms came into the area on Friday. After the extens
Speaker 6: of search efforts, we do not believe she survived. The
Speaker 6: search for Tatum Morrell will continue with a much smaller
Speaker 6: scale back team. Number eight. Ralph Elliot, fifty one year
Speaker 6: old Ralph Elliot was last seen on April twenty second,
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, after he left for a day hike
Speaker 6: in Yosemite National Park, California. Sadly, there's very little information
Speaker 6: about Ralph's case, but his story is still important and
Speaker 6: it is important that we keep his case alive. According
Speaker 6: to the Fresno b newspaper, Ralph was intending to hike
Speaker 6: to the Yosemite Fall Overlook, an eagle peak in the
Speaker 6: Yosemite National Park. Authorities are concerned for his well being,
Speaker 6: and the Park Service are noted as saying that they
Speaker 6: believe he may be in a state of emotional distress
Speaker 6: incapable of harming himself. The Yosemite Park Service has declined
Speaker 6: to comment on whighly believe that Ralph is in such
Speaker 6: a state of emotional distress, but they have asked anyone
Speaker 6: who comes into contact with him to bear this in mind.
Speaker 6: Ralph Elliot is described as a white male with a
Speaker 6: muscular build, five foot eight inches tall, with blue eyes,
Speaker 6: a beard, and long gray hair. He was last seen
Speaker 6: wearing earth tone clothing and if you have any information,
Speaker 6: you're asked to contact the Yosemite Dispatch on two zero
Speaker 6: nine three seven nine one nine ninety two. Charles Lyon
Speaker 6: forty nine year old Charles Lyon was last seen on
Speaker 6: June tenth, twenty twenty one, at the Best Western Hotel
Speaker 6: in Tucion, Arizona. Charles had been staying there ahead of
Speaker 6: his trip to the Grand Canyon and has not been
Speaker 6: seen since. Newspapers report that Charles is from Tyler, Texas
Speaker 6: and was making the trip to the Grand Canyon alone.
Speaker 6: Authorities are becoming increasingly concerned for his well being. The
Speaker 6: Grand Canyon National Park, located in Arizona, has an area
Speaker 6: of four thousand, nine hundred and twenty six kilometers squared
Speaker 6: as over two million visitors per year. Most tourists visit
Speaker 6: the sprawling national Park to take a look at the
Speaker 6: Grand Canyon, one point six kilometer deep and twenty six
Speaker 6: kilometer mile wide geographic feature. The terrain can be challenging
Speaker 6: when paired with the Arizona heat, and hikers advised to
Speaker 6: travel in groups as well as to carry adequate supplies.
Speaker 6: Charles Carr was found abandoned along Desert View Drive near
Speaker 6: Lippon Point on June eleventh, twenty twenty one. Investigators believe
Speaker 6: that Charles starred his solo hike from the spot and
Speaker 6: is previous mentioned. The last confirmed sighting of Charles was
Speaker 6: on June tenth, twenty twenty one, with him being officially
Speaker 6: reported missing on June fourteenth, twenty twenty one. As of
Speaker 6: this writing, Charles Lyne is still missing and the Grand
Speaker 6: Canyon National Park is currently under Stage two fire restrictions
Speaker 6: due to swelling temperatures of one hundred and fifteen degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 6: Charles is described as a white male six feet tall,
Speaker 6: weighs one hundred and seventy seven pounds. He has brown
Speaker 6: hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information is as to
Speaker 6: contact the Grand Canyon Rangers on eight eight eight sixty
Speaker 6: five three zero zero zero nine, number six Shawn Higgins.
Speaker 6: On October fourteenth, twenty sixteen, Shawn Higgins, along with his
Speaker 6: twenty one year old son Trevor, and travel's uncle, no
Speaker 6: name was provided for the uncle, headed out to the
Speaker 6: Shasta Costa Drainage in the Bear Camp area in Oregon
Speaker 6: per day of hunting. The three men had no idea
Speaker 6: of the tragedy that was about to unfold that day,
Speaker 6: and to them, it started out just like any other
Speaker 6: hunting trip they had been on. Sean and Trevor agreed
Speaker 6: to go their separate ways and meet back at the
Speaker 6: car later on in the day to discuss today's activities
Speaker 6: and to collect Trevor's uncle again. This is Shawn's brother.
Speaker 6: His name was never given in the reports. The men
Speaker 6: parted ways, not knowing it would be the last time
Speaker 6: they would ever see Sean alive. Shawn's wife, Stephanie told
Speaker 6: the NBC News Sean was on a footpath that ran
Speaker 6: alongside a road. He's an outdoorsman who knew the area,
Speaker 6: and he knew Trevor was waiting for him. It doesn't
Speaker 6: make any sense that he didn't make it out that
Speaker 6: evening on the day of his disappearance. Seawan had left
Speaker 6: his backpack and GPS device behind as he was only
Speaker 6: hunting a short distance away from the car. As we said,
Speaker 6: Sean was a very experienced outdoorsman and knew the area well,
Speaker 6: according to his family, in his mind, there was no
Speaker 6: reason to take it. When Shawn Feld returned to the truck,
Speaker 6: Trevor and Trevor's uncle knew that something was very, very wrong.
Speaker 6: They split up and immediately began searching for him. However,
Speaker 6: during this search, Trevor also got lost. Shawn had passed
Speaker 6: down his wealth of knowledge to his son, and Trevor
Speaker 6: was able to make a shelter and wait out. Tonight,
Speaker 6: Shawn's brother, Trevor's uncle, raised the alarm after Trevor also
Speaker 6: failed to return to the truck. Now with two missing
Speaker 6: family members, he called the authorities and a wide scale
Speaker 6: search began. Thankfully, on the fourth day of the search
Speaker 6: and rescue operation, Trevor was found two and a half
Speaker 6: miles away. Trevor had suffered severe hypothermia due to the
Speaker 6: cold and wet conditions, but was otherwise okay. Sadly, neither
Speaker 6: Trevor nor the search and rescue teams found any sign
Speaker 6: of Sean. Cruise utilized drones, helicopters, and dog units, but
Speaker 6: still they found nothing, and by October twenty fifth, the
Speaker 6: search had officially been suspended. As of this writing in
Speaker 6: twenty twenty one, Seawn Higgins is still missing and authorities
Speaker 6: are no closer to solving the case. Number five Daileen Poah,
Speaker 6: Eighteen year old Daileen Puah was lasting on February twenty seventh,
Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, after he had set out to hike the
Speaker 6: High Coup Stairs also known as the Stairway to Heaven
Speaker 6: Way in Nay Hawaii. The High Coup Stairs are one
Speaker 6: of Hawaii's most dangerous trails. Some of the steps have
Speaker 6: been heavily damaged by winds and rain, and it is
Speaker 6: not a trail that's recommended for first time hikers. The
Speaker 6: trail's been officially closed since nineteen eighty seven, with the
Speaker 6: Hawaiian Police Department handing out fine so up to one
Speaker 6: thousand dollars to trespassers. However, this has done little to
Speaker 6: deterre thrill seekers. Even in twenty twenty one, people are
Speaker 6: still attempting to make the hike, despite several warnings from
Speaker 6: the Hawaiian PD and the Hawaiian government. At the time
Speaker 6: of his disappearance, Dayleen was visiting his grandma and had
Speaker 6: told her about his intentions to climb the stairs. His
Speaker 6: grandma warned him that the trail was closed and then
Speaker 6: he would be met with police officers waiting to find
Speaker 6: or arrest him. Despite this, Dayleen boarded a bus on
Speaker 6: February twenty seventh, twenty fifteen, and told his grandma he
Speaker 6: was going on a hike. The last confirmed movements of
Speaker 6: Dayleen are at around eleven am, when he takes a
Speaker 6: picture of himself on the hiking trail to his family.
Speaker 6: The photo shows a wooded area, but Eagle Eid online
Speaker 6: investigators have spotted an unknown man squatting in the bushes
Speaker 6: very chilly. After this, Dayleen was never seen or heard
Speaker 6: from again. When Dayleen failed to return to his grandma's house,
Speaker 6: she called authorities and a search and rescue party was
Speaker 6: dispatched to the forbidden trail. Despite the efforts of hundreds
Speaker 6: of volunteers, drones, and the US Navy, no sign of
Speaker 6: Daileen has ever been found. Volunteers even repelled down the
Speaker 6: six hundred foot drop where Dayleen's last photograph was taken,
Speaker 6: but sadly they found nothing. The Hawaiian police are now
Speaker 6: asking for the public's help and identifying the mysterious man
Speaker 6: in the photo, and online sleuths have speculated that this
Speaker 6: man may have been following Dayleen. Dayleen is the described
Speaker 6: as a male Pacific Islander with black hair and brown eyes.
Speaker 6: He's five to seven and weighs one hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 6: If you have any information regarding this case, you're asked
Speaker 6: to contact the Honolulu Police Department on eight zero eight
Speaker 6: five two nine three one one one number four. Todd
Speaker 6: Gabe twenty two year old Todd Guibe was last seen
Speaker 6: on Sunday, June sixth, two thousand and five, when he
Speaker 6: was attending a party in a field in Casanovia, Michigan.
Speaker 6: Todd had been attending the cake party with friends, and
Speaker 6: up until around twelve forty five am, nothing seemed out
Speaker 6: of the ordinary. According to his family and friends, Todd
Speaker 6: was a normal twenty two year old man. He liked
Speaker 6: socializing with his friends after hard day's work. His family
Speaker 6: have also noted that Todd did not suffer from depression
Speaker 6: or any other mental health disorders, a fact that will
Speaker 6: become very important later on in this case. At twelve
Speaker 6: forty seven am on Sunday, June fifth, two thousand and five,
Speaker 6: Todd plays a several folk call, with the first being
Speaker 6: to the person that had dropped him off at the
Speaker 6: keg party. According to this friend, Todd told him that
Speaker 6: he'd quote had enough that he was going to walk home.
Speaker 6: The next call was at twelve fifty one am, but
Speaker 6: this time all Todd said was I'm in a field concerned.
Speaker 6: The friend called him back, but all he heard on
Speaker 6: the other end of the phone was what sounded like
Speaker 6: heavy breathing. Or perhaps the wind. The last set of
Speaker 6: calls were made between twelve fifty one am and twelve
Speaker 6: fifty seven am, when Todd tried to call his friend,
Speaker 6: but he was unable to get through. After this last
Speaker 6: call attempt, there's been no further activity on Todd's phone.
Speaker 6: Search and rescue teams were dispatched after todd Filter return
Speaker 6: home from the party. In total, fifteen hundred volunteers turned
Speaker 6: out to help search for the missing twenty two year old.
Speaker 6: Even with the assistance of helicopters and police units, no
Speaker 6: sign of Todd was found. That was until July second,
Speaker 6: two thousand and five, when Todd's body was discovered standing
Speaker 6: almost upright in a pond that wasn't too far from
Speaker 6: where the party had taken place. Investigators were puzzled as
Speaker 6: to how they could have missed him, as the area
Speaker 6: around the party had been searched extensively. Todd's head and
Speaker 6: shoulders round the water, and the corner noted that he
Speaker 6: was not in an advanced state of decomposition, something that
Speaker 6: would have been expected as he had been missing for
Speaker 6: over three weeks. The corner ruled that Tod's cause of
Speaker 6: death was drowning, but that the manner of death was undetermined.
Speaker 6: Todd's family were obviously unhappy with these findings. However, the
Speaker 6: police stuck by the story and Todd's case was considered closed.
Speaker 6: In two thousand and nine, doctor Michael Sekersa, who was
Speaker 6: a friendsic pathologist and the CEO of Forensic Identification and
Speaker 6: Profiling Laboratory, reviewed Todd's case. Doctor Sekersa and his team
Speaker 6: of experts found that Todd had no water in his
Speaker 6: lungs and his post mortem index or PMI was listed
Speaker 6: as between two to five days. Todd had been missing
Speaker 6: for total of twenty one days, so what had happened?
Speaker 6: Where had he been for all those other days? Now,
Speaker 6: alcohol and antidepressant medication were found in Todd's system, and
Speaker 6: after consulting with family members and checking health records, it
Speaker 6: was found that Todd had not been prescribed such medication.
Speaker 6: As if the recording of this episode, Todd's case is
Speaker 6: still closed and the mystery remains. Many people believe that
Speaker 6: Todd fell victim to the infamous Smiley Face killer or killers. However,
Speaker 6: the Michigan State Police have declined to comment. If you
Speaker 6: have any information regarding this case, you're asked to contact
Speaker 6: the Michigan State Police on five one, seven two eight
Speaker 6: four three seven four five number three. Jeffrey John Zoltowski
Speaker 6: twenty three year old Jeffrey John Zultowski was last seen
Speaker 6: on March thirty first, nineteen ninety three, as he was
Speaker 6: hiking in the Wailua Valley in Molokai, Hawaii. Jeffrey was
Speaker 6: a student at the Wayne State University in Detroit, and
Speaker 6: when he wasn't studying, he spent his time volunteering at
Speaker 6: the Veterans Hospital in various soup kitchens throughout the Detroit area.
Speaker 6: According to those clo Jeffrey, he was loved by everyone
Speaker 6: and was a popular football player in high school. On
Speaker 6: the thirty first of March nineteen ninety three, while hiking,
Speaker 6: Jeffrey signaled a Department of Land and Natural Resources helicopter
Speaker 6: to come and vick him up from his location. He
Speaker 6: told the crew on board that his feet were severely
Speaker 6: blistered and bleeding, and that he felt he was physically
Speaker 6: unable to make the fourteen mile trek back into the city.
Speaker 6: The pilot dismissed Jeffrey, telling him that he would not
Speaker 6: take him back as it wasn't a life threatening emergency.
Speaker 6: He did, however, take Jeffrey's backpack and told him that
Speaker 6: he would leave it in the service hard form. For
Speaker 6: forty one days, Jeffrey's sixty pound backpack laid unclaimed in
Speaker 6: the yard before he was finally reported missing. There is
Speaker 6: no information as to whether search and rescue teams were
Speaker 6: sent to look for Jeffrey and his disappearance was pushed
Speaker 6: to the side. In two thousand and one, a woman
Speaker 6: reported seeing a man matching Jeffrey's description begging for money
Speaker 6: outside of a homeless shelter in Honolulu. This sighting has
Speaker 6: never been verified, and people at the shelter said they
Speaker 6: did not recognize Jeffrey when they were showing a picture
Speaker 6: of him. As of this recording in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 6: Jeffrey is still missing and it seems there's little being
Speaker 6: done to find him by law enforcement. Number two. Kenny
Speaker 6: Veach Forty seven year old Kenny Veach mysteriously disappeared in
Speaker 6: the Mohave Desert in Nevada on November fourteenth, twenty fourteen.
Speaker 6: Kenny was hiking near Area fifty one. I was looking
Speaker 6: for cave systems and mine shafts. Kenny has uploaded several
Speaker 6: videos to his YouTube channel under the user name snake
Speaker 6: Bitt McGee, where he describes entering a cave with an
Speaker 6: M shaped opening. He wrote in one comment that ain't nothing.
Speaker 6: I'm a long distance hiker. One time, during one of
Speaker 6: my hikes out by Nellis Air Force Base, I found
Speaker 6: a hidden cave. The entrance to the cave was shaped
Speaker 6: like a perfect capital M. I always enter every cave
Speaker 6: I find, but as I began to enter this particular cave,
Speaker 6: my whole body began to vibrate. Suddenly, I became very
Speaker 6: scared and high tailed out of there. That was one
Speaker 6: of the strangest thing that ever happened to me. Now,
Speaker 6: these videos gained popularity following his mysterious disappearance, and in
Speaker 6: these videos he does indeed talk about how his whole
Speaker 6: body vibrated and he felt scared upon entering this mysterious
Speaker 6: M cave armed with a gun and a camera this time,
Speaker 6: Kenny headed back out to the M cave on November tenth,
Speaker 6: twenty fourteen, hoping to get a better look inside. However,
Speaker 6: Kenny never returned home. Although he was a very experienced
Speaker 6: hiker and outdoorsman, Kenny rarely took a map or GPS
Speaker 6: device with him on his house. According to his family,
Speaker 6: on the day of his disappearance, he told him that
Speaker 6: he would only be gone for a short overnight trip.
Speaker 6: Then when he didn't return home, they immediately called the police.
Speaker 6: Police volunteers, and search and rescue teams all scattered the
Speaker 6: area where Kenny was last known to have been. On
Speaker 6: November twenty second, twenty fourteen, volunteers found Kenny's phone. According
Speaker 6: to those volunteers, the trail went cold soon after they
Speaker 6: located his phone, and there have been no signs of
Speaker 6: Kenny ever since. At the time of this episodis the
Speaker 6: mysterious disappearance of Kenny Beach is very much alive in
Speaker 6: true crime and paranormal circles, but it appears that we
Speaker 6: are still no closer to uncovering the truth. Number One
Speaker 6: Henry mccab thirty two year old Henry mcab of Moundsview, Minnesota,
Speaker 6: was the last thing live on September sixth, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 6: when he and two friends William Pappus Kennedy and Calvin Johnson,
Speaker 6: spent the night party. At around two am. On September seventh,
Speaker 6: Henry allegedly has to be dropped off at a Super
Speaker 6: America gas station in Fridley, Minnesota. His two companions noted
Speaker 6: this is odd as Henry's house was several miles in
Speaker 6: the opposite direction. Nonetheless, they honored his wishes and dropped
Speaker 6: him off at the gas station. The two friends also
Speaker 6: took Henry's wallet and keys from him earlier in the
Speaker 6: night to prevent him from buying any more drinks as
Speaker 6: he was apparently very intoxicated. At two twenty eighth am,
Speaker 6: Henry's wife received a disturbing phone call from her husband.
Speaker 6: Henry was screaming down the phone, saying that someone had
Speaker 6: shot him. Before the call disconnected. Henry tried to call
Speaker 6: his wife again. However, he was met with her voicemail
Speaker 6: as she was trying to call Henry's brother Tim. The
Speaker 6: creepy voicemail captured high pitched moting and growling sounds along
Speaker 6: with Henry screaming. Some of the audio is hard to
Speaker 6: pick out due to the low call quality, however, but
Speaker 6: at the end of the voicemail, a male voice can
Speaker 6: be heard saying stop it before the voicemail disconnects.
Speaker 7: It's a voicemail unlike anything you've ever heard before. There
Speaker 7: are two minutes worth of noises, the bizarre ones with
Speaker 7: very little actual talking. Authorities confirmed the disturbing middle of
Speaker 7: the night call came from Henry McCabe's cell phone. It
Speaker 7: was Labor Days, September seventh, at two twenty eight in
Speaker 7: the morning. McCabe's worried wife heard the.
Speaker 8: Message is and my cell phone connected.
Speaker 7: Minnesota Community Policing Services is a nonprofit agency and acts
Speaker 7: as a go between with police in the Liberian community.
Speaker 7: The leader is trying to help the family makes some
Speaker 7: sense of this recording.
Speaker 9: The growls turned to high pitch molds so like he's
Speaker 9: moaning in pain.
Speaker 10: Like moaning in pain.
Speaker 7: The torture drunks suddenly stop. There is silence. Then someone,
Speaker 7: either Henry or another person says stop it.
Speaker 8: I try to picture where he was, what it might
Speaker 8: have been like, what circumstances would have made him sound
Speaker 8: like that.
Speaker 7: The voicemail is in star contrast to other articulate recordings
Speaker 7: of McCabe speaking at an event. He's a state auditor.
Speaker 6: What is it justification to do?
Speaker 7: The message is one piece of evidence mounts view. Police
Speaker 7: are reviewing. The police chief tells me. Even the FBI
Speaker 7: is analyzing the recording and voices for clues. The chief
Speaker 7: says the investigation took deputies here on Tuesday to Rice
Speaker 7: Creek Park, which borders New Brighton, mounts View, and Fridley,
Speaker 7: all areas where McKay was reported seen or a cell
Speaker 7: phone ping placed him. Ramsey County water patrols searched but
Speaker 7: came up empty.
Speaker 6: When Henry's wife reported these calls, police began the search
Speaker 6: for Henry. They searched Spring Lake Park, New Brighton as
Speaker 6: the cause that Henry made pinged from these cell phone towers.
Speaker 6: Despite an extensive search by land and air, there was
Speaker 6: no trace of Henry to be found and the investigation
Speaker 6: went cold. Then on November second, twenty fifteen, Henry's body
Speaker 6: was discovered in Rush Lake, New Brighton, Minnesota. There were
Speaker 6: no gunshot warns to Henry's body, and his cause of
Speaker 6: death was ruled as drowning. Obviously, Henry's family do not
Speaker 6: agree with this verdict and believe that the voicemail is
Speaker 6: proof that Henry met with some sort of foul play
Speaker 6: that night. Some people even believe that what Henry encountered
Speaker 6: was not even here. If you have any information, you're
Speaker 6: asked to contact the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office on sixty
Speaker 6: five one seven six seven zero six four zero. Well there,
Speaker 6: Cabet folks, what do you think of these mysterious unsolved cases?
Speaker 6: Some of these simply defy description. I look forward to
Speaker 6: your comments. We do ask that you please remain courteous
Speaker 6: to the victims, the families and victims into the comments
Speaker 6: of others. Thank you for listening. Until we meet again,
Speaker 6: be good to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton
Speaker 6: and I'll talk to you next time. Hello, friends, Steve
Speaker 6: Stockton here with you. Welcome to our latest video. In
Speaker 6: this episode, we bring you volume twenty one of our
Speaker 6: National Park Mystery series, where we bring ten more disappearances
Speaker 6: for you to ponder. Join us. Let's take a walk
Speaker 6: and see number ten. Michael William doan forty seven year
Speaker 6: old Michael Done of Las Vegas, Nevada, and had a
Speaker 6: rough patch in his life in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 6: You've been out of work for some time and this
Speaker 6: was causing anguished in mental pain. Michael's living girlfriend said
Speaker 6: that in January of two thousand and nine, Michael was
Speaker 6: depressed and unhappy and desperately wanted life to get better.
Speaker 6: On January twenty eighth, two thousand and nine, Michael and
Speaker 6: his girlfriend got into an argument, which resulted in Michael
Speaker 6: get into his car and leaving home. His girlfriend believed
Speaker 6: that Michael was just trying to drive to clear his head,
Speaker 6: but he never returned home. There are a few details
Speaker 6: about Michael's disappearance, and all we know is that on
Speaker 6: January twenty ninth, two thousand and nine, his car was
Speaker 6: found in the Desert National Wildlife Range by a park ranger.
Speaker 6: Cars found forty miles away from Interstate ninety five and
Speaker 6: Lee Canyon Road. According to the Charlie Project, the ranger
Speaker 6: saw footprints leading away from the vehicle, but there was
Speaker 6: no sign of Michael. There have been little to no
Speaker 6: reports about Michael's disappearance, and we do not know to
Speaker 6: what extent the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police search for him.
Speaker 6: Bone records indicated that shortly after he walked out of
Speaker 6: the house, he tried to call his girlfriend, that the
Speaker 6: call never went through. This is the last known movement
Speaker 6: of Michael Doan, and he has been missing ever since.
Speaker 6: Michael Doan is described as a white male with gray
Speaker 6: brown hair, blue eyes that's approximately five foot ten inches
Speaker 6: tall and weighs around one hundred and eighty pounds. Michael
Speaker 6: has the following tattoos, a long horn skull on his chest,
Speaker 6: an eagle on his back, a Tasmanian devil on his
Speaker 6: left shoulder, and a picture of the Beatles on his
Speaker 6: right shoulder. According to both NamUs and the Charlie Project,
Speaker 6: Michael was last seen wearing a yellow jacket, blue jeans,
Speaker 6: and black shoes. Anyone with any information regarding Michael or
Speaker 6: his disappearance is asked to contact Dan Holly of the
Speaker 6: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at seven zero two eight
Speaker 6: two eight three to one, reference case number zero nine
Speaker 6: zero one three to one dash zero nine three six
Speaker 6: number nine. Lee Sterling Cutler, eighteen year old Lee Sterling
Speaker 6: Cutler was described as a kind, responsible, an outgoing person
Speaker 6: who wanted nothing more than to ease the pain of others.
Speaker 6: While attending adelaide E Stevenson High School in Buffalo Grove, Illinois,
Speaker 6: Lee founded a group called b b Yo, a Jewish
Speaker 6: youth organization that hosted events and acted as support for
Speaker 6: those who observed the Jewish faith within the community. Lee
Speaker 6: was a shining star within the group and was dedicated
Speaker 6: to them. He never missed an event and was always
Speaker 6: there to support someone when they needed it. In two
Speaker 6: thousand and six, Lee started showing signs of depression and
Speaker 6: expressed that he wanted to harm himself, possibly take his
Speaker 6: own life. This manifested in Lee taking a knife into school,
Speaker 6: so he explained he could bear the pain no longer. Thankfully,
Speaker 6: Lee got the help he needed and was hospitalized and
Speaker 6: given therapy. After this, Lee was slowly getting his life
Speaker 6: back on track and was looking forward to the future.
Speaker 6: He had plans to either continue his education or maybe
Speaker 6: start something different altogether. By two thousand and seven, Lee
Speaker 6: was in his senior year and it was time to
Speaker 6: decide his future. Lee had many plans and thought long
Speaker 6: and hard about what he wanted to do, but before
Speaker 6: he could enact those plans, he would disappear under bizarre circumstances.
Speaker 6: On October nineteenth, two thousand and seven, Lee spent the
Speaker 6: night at a friend's house and promised to call his mother,
Speaker 6: Beth in the morning. Beth waited all morning for a
Speaker 6: son to call her and let her know that he
Speaker 6: was safe and that he made it to work. Sadly,
Speaker 6: that call never came. Lee was due to start a
Speaker 6: shift at the clothing store where he worked part time
Speaker 6: the next morning, and his employers knew that he was
Speaker 6: a reliable employee, so when he failed to show up,
Speaker 6: no call, no show, they knew something was wrong. His
Speaker 6: mother also sensed that something was wrong. It wasn't unusual
Speaker 6: for him to forget to charge his phone, but this
Speaker 6: time things just somehow felt different. Throughout the day, Beth
Speaker 6: called the store where Lee worked and asked if he'd
Speaker 6: shown up, but he hadn't. At five pm, Beth was
Speaker 6: beside herself with worry, and after calling the clothing store
Speaker 6: for a final time, she then immediately dialed nine to
Speaker 6: one one. The Buffalo Grove Police Department responded to the
Speaker 6: call and arrived at the Cutler household. An initial search
Speaker 6: of Lee's room showed no clues, but investigators did notice
Speaker 6: that his overnight bag was missing, which he most likely
Speaker 6: took when he spent the night at a friend's house.
Speaker 6: Investigators then began retracing Lee's steps and found that the
Speaker 6: last sighting of him was around nine to fifty am
Speaker 6: on the morning of October twenty, two thousand and nine.
Speaker 6: As investigators interviewed Lee's friends, They found out that on
Speaker 6: the morning he disappeared, Lee had dropped a friend off
Speaker 6: in his home in Buffalo Grove at around nine to
Speaker 6: fifty am, leaving and presumably heading toward his workplace. From there,
Speaker 6: the trail goes cold. Beth made hundreds of calls to
Speaker 6: Lee's flown but they either didn't connect or went straight
Speaker 6: to voicemail. After finding no sign of Lee in or
Speaker 6: around his home or near his workplace, the search radius expanded.
Speaker 6: Just today, after Lee disappeared, investigators would get their first
Speaker 6: break in the case. When it is two thousand and seven,
Speaker 6: Toyota Corolla was discovered abandoned in Wisconsin near the Barboo River.
Speaker 6: The car was locked and abandoned, and there was no
Speaker 6: sign of Lee anywhere. After the car was discovered, investigators
Speaker 6: theorized that Lee had likely gone into the woods. It
Speaker 6: was known that Lee liked the hiking camp and was
Speaker 6: familiar with the Barboo River area. The further add to
Speaker 6: this theory, investigators found a receipt from the Kettle Moraine
Speaker 6: State Forest which was dated October twentieth, two thousand and nine,
Speaker 6: at one forty one pm. Investigators now channeled their search
Speaker 6: on the Kettle Moraine State Forest and the Barboo River
Speaker 6: Area Search and Rescue Cruise, along with Lee's family and volunteers,
Speaker 6: began to scour the area, and they quickly found their
Speaker 6: next clue. Somewhere near the Baraboo River, searchers found Lee's
Speaker 6: over night back that he had taken out with him
Speaker 6: the night before his disappearance. Some of his personal items,
Speaker 6: including pants, id card, wallet, cash, and car keys were
Speaker 6: in this bag found by the Barber River. Also inside
Speaker 6: the bag, searchers found paid medication, sleep, paid tablets, The
Speaker 6: book Into the Wild and handwritten letters to his family
Speaker 6: and his girlfriend. Into the Wild is a popular book
Speaker 6: that follows the journey of Christopher mccandles's Christopher sets out
Speaker 6: of the wilderness of Alaska, only to perish while out
Speaker 6: looking for his next big adventure. None of the notes
Speaker 6: mentioned anything about his disappearance, but there was another note
Speaker 6: found inside the book. This note was addressed to his
Speaker 6: mother and read, my head is too big for my shoulders.
Speaker 6: Finally I'll be able to sleep. I know I'm not crazy.
Speaker 6: I love you, mom, Please be happy. He also apologized
Speaker 6: to his mother for being a coward, but did not
Speaker 6: refer to harming himself. The search was now focused exclusively
Speaker 6: on the Baraboo River, but despite days of intensive searching,
Speaker 6: no sign of Lee was ever found. His mother and father,
Speaker 6: who had divorced years earlier, came together to try and
Speaker 6: find their son. Beth made various TV appearances pleading for
Speaker 6: her son to come home. Private investigators and dive teams
Speaker 6: have been called into search for Lee, but nothing was
Speaker 6: ever uncovered. Investigators believed that Lee left of his own volition,
Speaker 6: as living a new life elsewhere and doesn't want to
Speaker 6: be contacted. Lee's case was officially closed by law enforcement. However,
Speaker 6: he is still listed as a missing person and his
Speaker 6: friends and family have never given up the fight to
Speaker 6: find him. Lee Sterling Cutler was last seen on October twenty,
Speaker 6: two thousand and nine, in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He is
Speaker 6: described as a white male with light brown hair and
Speaker 6: brown eyes, bending six foot tall and weighing about one
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty pounds. Lee always wore a yarmuica and
Speaker 6: expressed an interest in moving to Israel after he graduated.
Speaker 6: He had a small bump on his upper lip and
Speaker 6: slight webbing between two of his toes. Lee was last
Speaker 6: seen wearing khaki pants and a dark blue jacket with
Speaker 6: a red stripe. Anyone with any information as asked to
Speaker 6: please contact Detective Tara Anderson of the Buffalo Group Police
Speaker 6: Department at eight four seven four five nine two five
Speaker 6: eight three in reference case M seven E four two
Speaker 6: two two number eight. Celeste Waina Hensley Group, Twenty year
Speaker 6: old Celeste Waina Hensley Group was last seen on August tenth,
Speaker 6: nineteen seventy six, and a Cloud Peak Wilderness in the
Speaker 6: Bighorn Mountains in Casey, Wyoming. On August tenth, Celeste and
Speaker 6: two of her female friends entered the wilderness area intending
Speaker 6: to hike to Cloud Peak. According to those two friends,
Speaker 6: Celeste decided to rest on the trailhead. They continued up
Speaker 6: to Cloud Peak, and the arrangement was that they would
Speaker 6: meet her on the way back down. A five PM,
Speaker 6: the two friends had completed their hike, and as they
Speaker 6: made their way down to the trailhead, they saw that
Speaker 6: Celeste was gone. Her friends searched for calling her name,
Speaker 6: but found no sign over. The two rushed to the
Speaker 6: nearest ranger station to report their friend missing. Within a
Speaker 6: few hours, the Johnson County Sheriff's office had responded to
Speaker 6: the incident and had officially begun their search. Now. According
Speaker 6: to the Charlie Project, between two hundred and three hundred
Speaker 6: people turned up to help search for Celeste. Many of
Speaker 6: these were search and rescue professionals, while others were simply volunteers.
Speaker 6: This group covered about eighty square miles but failed to
Speaker 6: find any sign of Celeste. There were rumors that at
Speaker 6: the time her disappearance, Celeste was having metal issues, which
Speaker 6: may have led her to run away and start a
Speaker 6: new life. However, we will point out that these rumors
Speaker 6: have never been confirmed. Two long weeks, the search for
Speaker 6: Celeste Grubb was called off as the Johnson County Sheriff's
Speaker 6: Office and the group of volunteers failed to find any
Speaker 6: sign of her. When she disappeared, she had no supplies
Speaker 6: with her and only a small number of suites on
Speaker 6: her person. Since August tenth, nineteen seventy six, there's been
Speaker 6: no sign of Celeste and she remains a missing person.
Speaker 6: Celesti Grub is described as a white female, standing five
Speaker 6: foot two inches tall and weigh one hundred and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 6: Anyone with any information is as to police contact Deputy
Speaker 6: Paul Caussek of the Johnson County Sheriff's Office at three
Speaker 6: zero seven six eight four five to five to eight
Speaker 6: one in reference case number one eight s zero zero
Speaker 6: seven to five number seven Delicia Annette Waddy. Before she disappeared,
Speaker 6: twenty four year old Delicia Annette Waddy left a message
Speaker 6: on her Facebook page which read, it's never too late
Speaker 6: to do the right thing. Don't get discouraged speaking to myself. Also,
Speaker 6: just days later, Delicia would be reported missing and there's
Speaker 6: been no sign of her since. According to reports, Delicia
Speaker 6: was last seen in the King's Dominion Camp Wilderness Campground
Speaker 6: in the one thousand block of King's Dominion Boulevard in Oswell, Virginia,
Speaker 6: on March ninth, twenty seventeen. Alicia entered the campground and
Speaker 6: tried to get a spot. Unfortunately, the campground was full
Speaker 6: and no matter how hard she begged, Delicia wasn't given
Speaker 6: a spot. After being refused to spot, Delicia left the
Speaker 6: campground on foot, leaving her silver Ford Explorer behind. Reports
Speaker 6: indicate that her car was in good working condition and
Speaker 6: had plenty of gas insight, so why would she leave
Speaker 6: it behind. There's also a large chunk of time where
Speaker 6: Delicia's movements are unaccounted for, and the next sighting of
Speaker 6: her wasn't made until around three or four pm that afternoon.
Speaker 6: According to an NBC article, witnesses saw Delicia walking barefoot
Speaker 6: along Meta Farm Road in Caroline County, Virginia. Delicia's behavior
Speaker 6: both worried and disturbed passers by, and two people even
Speaker 6: filled her walking along the road barefoot. These same passers
Speaker 6: by tried to intervene and offer her help, but according
Speaker 6: to them, she declined. These are the last known movements
Speaker 6: of Delicia, and after this she simply dropped off the map.
Speaker 6: Her absence was noted by her family, and her mother
Speaker 6: knew that she always kept in contact. After failing to
Speaker 6: reach Delicia, her mother contacted the authorities and reported her missing.
Speaker 6: From there, the two forces, Hanover County Sheriff's Office and
Speaker 6: the Caroline County Sheriff's Office began retracing Delicia's last movements.
Speaker 6: It wasn't long until they found her abandoned silver Ford,
Speaker 6: exploring the King's Dominion Camp Wilderness Campground. Investigators noticed, as
Speaker 6: we said, that the car was in good working order
Speaker 6: and had plenty of gas. Bizarrely, Delicia's phone, purse, wallet,
Speaker 6: and license were scattered behind the Mental Event Park, which
Speaker 6: was close to where she abandoned her car. As news
Speaker 6: of Delicia's disappearance went public, witnesses came forward with the
Speaker 6: video of her walking barefoot in Caroline County. The search
Speaker 6: radius expanded and sent dogs were also brought into eight
Speaker 6: in the search. According to the Charlie Project, doggs also
Speaker 6: tracked her sent to a home in Caroline, Virginia. Was
Speaker 6: Delicia headed to a specific location or was she perhaps
Speaker 6: taken against her will. Another twist in the case came
Speaker 6: days later, when a friend of Dealsiu's reported seeing her
Speaker 6: on Bendale Avenue in Richmond, Virginia on March twelfth, twenty seventeen.
Speaker 6: This friend told investigators that she was not aware that
Speaker 6: Delasia was missing, and no further information about this sighting
Speaker 6: has been released. These sightings and the fact that Delicia
Speaker 6: did not ask passers by for help, have led investigators
Speaker 6: to believe that she may not have been in trouble,
Speaker 6: although given how much time has passed since she was
Speaker 6: last seen, their viewpoint has most likely changed. Delicia's mother
Speaker 6: told the media that it was out of the ordinary
Speaker 6: for Delusa not to contact her friends or family, and
Speaker 6: that her behavior was bizarre. Delicia's friends and family want
Speaker 6: her home and are asking the public to help. She
Speaker 6: has not accessed her social media or bank accounts since
Speaker 6: she disappeared, and her family now fears for her safety.
Speaker 6: Delicia Waddie is described as an African American female with
Speaker 6: black hair, hazel eyes, standing five foot one and weighing
Speaker 6: one hundred and forty five pounds. Delicia has the following
Speaker 6: tattoos arts on both sides of her collarbone, leopard spots
Speaker 6: on one arm and shoulder, Brian on her breast, an
Speaker 6: anchor on the other breast, and script writing that runs
Speaker 6: across her abdomen, the name Matria on her wrist, and
Speaker 6: tattoos on her Laura, abdomen, hip and calf. Delicia also
Speaker 6: has her nose and ears pierced, and some agencies may
Speaker 6: spell her name de e l Cia rather than the
Speaker 6: el e Cia. She was last seen wearing a black
Speaker 6: and white tank top, black pants with a white strap
Speaker 6: down the leg, a multicolored ball cap, and no shoes.
Speaker 6: Anyone with any information just asked to contact Monica Fagin
Speaker 6: of the Caroline County Sheriff's Office at eight zero four
Speaker 6: six six three one one two zero or the Hanover
Speaker 6: County Sheriff's Office at eight oh four three sixty five
Speaker 6: six 's one four zero number six. Leonyard Taku, forty
Speaker 6: four year old Leonard Tacu, was last seen on Christmas
Speaker 6: Day two thousand and six at the Tampa International Airport
Speaker 6: in Tampa, Florida. At the time of his disappearance, Leonard
Speaker 6: was on vacation in Florida from Ramsgate, England, where he
Speaker 6: worked as a school teacher. Leonyard was excited about his
Speaker 6: vacation and told his colleagues that he would be back
Speaker 6: on January third, two thousand and seven to start the
Speaker 6: school year afresh. Those who knew Leonard said he was
Speaker 6: kind and outgoing and loved his life and his job.
Speaker 6: Leonyard was last seen at the car rental desk at
Speaker 6: the airport, where he was attempting to renew his contract
Speaker 6: for a rented car. He'd been driving a two thousand
Speaker 6: and five black christ Or Crossfire convertible around Florida, and
Speaker 6: this would have been the third time he would have
Speaker 6: extended the contract. After leaving the rental desk, Leonyard was
Speaker 6: never seen again, but when his family realized he was missing.
Speaker 6: There were a few puzzling clues left behind. When Leonard
Speaker 6: failed to return home to England, his family and colleagues
Speaker 6: knew something had gone wrong. Leonard was due back on
Speaker 6: January third, two thousand and seven, and it was unlike
Speaker 6: Leonard to miss work. His family contacted the authorities in
Speaker 6: Florida and officially reported him missing. The Altamonte Springs Police
Speaker 6: Department responded to the report, and the search for Leonard
Speaker 6: officially began. Leonard was openly gay, and the police appealed
Speaker 6: to Florida's LGBTQ plus community to help them search for him.
Speaker 6: Investigators began retracing his steps and found that his credit
Speaker 6: card had been used on December twenty sixth two thousand
Speaker 6: and six at a Gap store. Whoever used the card
Speaker 6: purchased forty six dollars and fifty five cents worth of clothes.
Speaker 6: Now it's never been confirmed whether this transaction was made
Speaker 6: by Leonard himself. It was also found that Leonard's emails
Speaker 6: were accessed on December twenty eight, two thousand and six,
Speaker 6: but again, investigators have never been able to confirm whether
Speaker 6: it was actually Lenard or not. Access In the account,
Speaker 6: The trail went cold for a while, and his family
Speaker 6: desperately waited for updates. Then on February ninth, two thousand
Speaker 6: and seven, they received a call from investigators. The Altamonte
Speaker 6: Springs Police had found that Chrysler crossed fire abandoned deep
Speaker 6: in the Okalla National Force close to the Little Lake
Speaker 6: George Wilderness area. At the time, the Department of Agriculture
Speaker 6: was performing a controlled burn, and while the car was unharmed,
Speaker 6: any evidence that may have been around it was destroyed.
Speaker 6: With diminished evidence, the police concluded that there was no
Speaker 6: sign of a struggle and the car did not hold
Speaker 6: any clues as to Leonard squarebounds. Investigators found themselves stuck
Speaker 6: at square one and with no clues to work with,
Speaker 6: the case quickly ran cold. Florida is LGTBQ plus community
Speaker 6: banded together to help find Leonard, and the community kep
Speaker 6: a watchful eye out for him. Unfortunately, no sign of
Speaker 6: Leonard has ever been found. There was one final transaction
Speaker 6: on his credit card in January of two thousand and seven,
Speaker 6: when a room was purchased at a fancy hotel in Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 6: Leonard was not known to stay in lavish hotels while traveling,
Speaker 6: and this is when his family knew that Leonard was
Speaker 6: probably not the one using the card. It does not
Speaker 6: appear that the hotel was able to verify who checked in,
Speaker 6: and if this information is available, police are keeping it
Speaker 6: close to their chest. Leonard Taku remains missing and his
Speaker 6: family and friends in the UK and the US are
Speaker 6: searching for justice and answers. His family believed that he
Speaker 6: met with foul play, although investigators are stated there is
Speaker 6: no evidence to point to this. Leonard Taku is described
Speaker 6: as a Pacific Islander as black hair, brown eyes, stands
Speaker 6: about five foot nine inches tall and weighs about a
Speaker 6: hundred and seventy five pounds. Leonard has the following tattoos,
Speaker 6: some of which are relevant to his Pacific islunder culture.
Speaker 6: A checkerboard pattern and circles on his upper right arm,
Speaker 6: solid triangles with lines from his elbow to wrist. Also
Speaker 6: on his right arm, the zig zag pattern from elbow
Speaker 6: to wrist on his left arm, a tribal design was
Speaker 6: hurling patterns on his legs running from the knee of
Speaker 6: the thigh, a Celtic design on his lower back, and
Speaker 6: Gothic lettering on his upper back. Leonard has a distinctive
Speaker 6: Kiwi or New Zealand accent, and is an active and
Speaker 6: out member of the LGBTQ plus community. Anyone with any
Speaker 6: information is asked to contact the Altamonte Springs Police Department
Speaker 6: four zero seven five seven one eight two eight zero
Speaker 6: in reference case number two zero zero eight c J
Speaker 6: zero zero one one two five number five. Ronald Gail Selee,
Speaker 6: forty year old Ronald Gail Sili, moved from his home
Speaker 6: in Ville to Fresno County in August of nineteen eighty
Speaker 6: nine take a job as an X ray technician at
Speaker 6: one of the Fresnel County Hospitals. Unfortunately, there's not a
Speaker 6: lot of information about Ronald, and the only information available
Speaker 6: is pertaining to his disappearance. On September second, nineteen eighty nine, Ronald,
Speaker 6: along with three other men, entered the Ansel Adams Wilderness
Speaker 6: Area in Madeira County and planned the hike there. Ronald
Speaker 6: was last seed at around four thirty PM, and after
Speaker 6: that he became separated from the group as the rough
Speaker 6: terrain forced them apart. According to a news article from
Speaker 6: the Times Herald, the group had planned a camp overnight
Speaker 6: and the three men headed towards their campsite in the
Speaker 6: hopes that Ronald would eventually catch up with them. A
Speaker 6: September third, nineteen eighty nine, rolled around, and there was
Speaker 6: still no sign of their traveling companion. They reported missing
Speaker 6: to the Madeira County Sheriff's Department. The Sheriff's Department, along
Speaker 6: with search and rescue cruise, searched a twenty square mile
Speaker 6: area before calling off. The search crews were in the
Speaker 6: air and on the ground, but failed to find any
Speaker 6: sign of Ronald. Tommy Tomlinson, the Sheriff's sergeant of Madera
Speaker 6: County Sheriff's Office, told The Times Harold no signs evidence
Speaker 6: or any of his gear has been found. It's unusual
Speaker 6: for nothing to be found. There's no evidence of foul play,
Speaker 6: it doesn't mean it's been ruled out. In the same article,
Speaker 6: Ronald's sister, Pam Dorazzo told reporter Glenn Cardy how she
Speaker 6: planned to still celebrate Ronald's upcoming forty first birthday. She
Speaker 6: told Glynn, I bought him a birthday card already, and
Speaker 6: I'm not going to let him go to this day.
Speaker 6: His family still holds out hope that Ronald will be
Speaker 6: found and if they can finally get the answers they deserve.
Speaker 6: His mother, Marcine, believes that Ronald may have had amnesia
Speaker 6: and may have forgotten who he was. Almost thirty three
Speaker 6: years later and there's still no sign of Ronald, and
Speaker 6: it's unlikely that he simply ran away and started a
Speaker 6: new life, as some have suggested. Ronald is described as
Speaker 6: a white male with brown hair, green eyes, standing six
Speaker 6: foot tall and weighing one hundred and eighty five pounds.
Speaker 6: He has a tattoo of a son with rays, and
Speaker 6: the Charlie Project notes that he may have suffered from
Speaker 6: a head injury prior to his disappearance. Ronald was last
Speaker 6: seen wearing a red and white strip tank top, cut
Speaker 6: off Levi jeans, hiking boots, and a straw cowboy hat,
Speaker 6: and he was carrying a blue backpack with a red
Speaker 6: sleeping bag. Anyone with any information this has to please
Speaker 6: contact Detective Louise Paget of the Madera County Sheriff's Office
Speaker 6: at five point five nine sixty sixty four four nine
Speaker 6: zero eight and reference case number zero one zero one
Speaker 6: eight one seven five number four. Simon Owen, twenty one
Speaker 6: year old Simon Owen was described as a kind and
Speaker 6: easygoing young man, and at just twenty one years old,
Speaker 6: the world was his oyster. During term time, Simon lived
Speaker 6: in Fort Worth, Texas and attended the Texas Wesleyan University,
Speaker 6: but during the summers, Simon spent his time in Hawaii.
Speaker 6: With plenty of sun and endless beaches, Hawaii was a
Speaker 6: perfect place for Simon's relax center its extra money for
Speaker 6: school next year, and in nineteen ninety four he went
Speaker 6: to the Islands, but would never come back. In June
Speaker 6: of that year, nineteen ninety four, Simon arrived in Hawaii
Speaker 6: and got himself a job at Chile's Restaurant in Waikiki.
Speaker 6: He was also renting a room and planned to split
Speaker 6: his time between work and play. Simon was a keen outdoorsman,
Speaker 6: which made Hawaii the perfect place for him. He loved
Speaker 6: to climb and hike and want better place to do
Speaker 6: it than Hawaii. Simon was seen for the last time
Speaker 6: on June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety four. After that, he
Speaker 6: seemed to simply disappear. When his colleagues and family realized
Speaker 6: he was missing, they reported this to the police, and
Speaker 6: days later a large scale search was in operation. According
Speaker 6: to an article by The Honolulu Advertiser, billionaire Ross pro
Speaker 6: even aided financially in the search by paying for a
Speaker 6: private helicopter to look for Simon. Volunteers turned out in
Speaker 6: their hundreds to help search for the promising student, but
Speaker 6: they only ever one clue. Days into the search, investigators
Speaker 6: found Simon's bicycle changed the tree at the base of
Speaker 6: Manoa Falls. The search expanded to Manoa Falls, but no
Speaker 6: sign of Simon has ever been found. Investigators believe that
Speaker 6: Simon had an accident wilaut climbing and possibly fell from
Speaker 6: a considerable height. Simon was well versed in hiking and climbing,
Speaker 6: but the landscape of Manoa Falls can be unpredictable. The
Speaker 6: Honolulu Police Department does not believe that foul play is
Speaker 6: involved in Simon's case. Simon Owen was seen for the
Speaker 6: last time on June twenty ninth, nineteen ninety four, in Waikiki, Hawaii,
Speaker 6: and investigators are now seeking information. Simon's described as a
Speaker 6: white male with brown brown eyes, standing six foot tall
Speaker 6: and weighing one hundred and fifty five pounds. He has
Speaker 6: the Christian fish simple tattooed on his right ankle and
Speaker 6: has scars on the back of his neck, right hip,
Speaker 6: and left shoulder. When last seen, he was wearing based
Speaker 6: shorts and was possibly carrying his maroon backpack. Anyone with
Speaker 6: any information or who may have spotted the young man
Speaker 6: is asked to police contact the Honolulu Police Department at
Speaker 6: eight zero eight five two nine three to one one
Speaker 6: one and reference case number nine four NASH two seven
Speaker 6: three nine zero three number three. Michael Hugh Cabialetti fifty
Speaker 6: six year old Michael Hugh Cabilletti as a retired Army colonel.
Speaker 6: As time in the army taught him many valuable survival
Speaker 6: and outdoor skills, Michael loved to explore the great outdoors,
Speaker 6: and according to reports, is believed that he entered the
Speaker 6: Grandbury Wilderness on May twenty third, twenty eleven. His family
Speaker 6: said that it was unlike Michael to go on a
Speaker 6: hiking tramp without telling anyone, and after he failed to
Speaker 6: return home, he was reported missing. A month later. On
Speaker 6: June twenty seventh, twenty eleven, Michael's car was found abandoned
Speaker 6: by state trooper Marca g. The state trooper found Michael's
Speaker 6: car abandoned on Williams River Road, and when he checked
Speaker 6: the line Lison's plate, he found it belonged to Michael Camleetti,
Speaker 6: who had been reported missing weeks earlier. Inside the car,
Speaker 6: it was a handwritten note that stated he was playing
Speaker 6: to hike on the North South Trail from May twenty
Speaker 6: third to May twenty seven. This discovering alarmed officers and
Speaker 6: a search of the North South Trail was conducted, but
Speaker 6: they were unable to find any evidence of Michael. Sent dogs,
Speaker 6: search and rescue crews, and volunteers all flocked to the
Speaker 6: Cranberry Wilderness to aid in the search for Michael, but
Speaker 6: despite all this, the searchers came up empty handed. Since then,
Speaker 6: there's been no sign of Michael. His family is now
Speaker 6: looking for answers and closure. Michael Cambaletti is described as
Speaker 6: a white male with brown hair, blue eyes, standing five
Speaker 6: foot five inches tall, weighing one hundred and sixty five pounds.
Speaker 6: He has a scar on his chin. Anyone with any
Speaker 6: information is asked to contact the West Virginia State Police
Speaker 6: at three zero four seven nine to nine Bore one
Speaker 6: zero one, number two. Harold Loris Drake seventy six year
Speaker 6: old retired math teacher Harold Loris Drake was joining his
Speaker 6: retirement after dedicating many decades of his life to teaching
Speaker 6: newer generations. Harold was especially excited to get out and about,
Speaker 6: and he loved nothing more than hiking. Was said to
Speaker 6: be in great physical condition for his age. On July eighth,
Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, Harold entered the fire for Bigshurst State Park
Speaker 6: with a friend, and the two planned on camping and
Speaker 6: hiking there over the coming days. According to Harold's friend,
Speaker 6: on July eighth, Harold told him that he was going
Speaker 6: for a hike and would be back by that afternoon,
Speaker 6: But as the afternoon came and went, there was no
Speaker 6: sign of Harold. His friend began to panic As the
Speaker 6: hours ticked by and his friends still hadn't returned. Harold's
Speaker 6: camping companion reported missing to the Monterey County Sheriff's Department,
Speaker 6: and a search was underway. Within a few hours. The
Speaker 6: Sheriff's Department, along with search and rescue crews, searched throughout
Speaker 6: the park for Harold, ultimately found no sign of him.
Speaker 6: The friend who Harold was camping with told investigators that
Speaker 6: Harold had left with a gallon of water and some
Speaker 6: snacks that it appears that he left his sleeping bag
Speaker 6: and camping gear behind. Despite searching the fire for Big
Speaker 6: Surch State Park, which spans over a thousand acres, no
Speaker 6: sign of Harold has ever been located. The most likely
Speaker 6: theory is that he got lost or injured during his
Speaker 6: hike and was unable to cry for help. Harold's friends
Speaker 6: and family have never given up hope that one day
Speaker 6: they'll find him. Harold lors Drake is described as a
Speaker 6: white male with white hair, blue eyes. He stands five
Speaker 6: fot nine inches tall, weighs one hundred and sixty five pounds,
Speaker 6: and wears prescription glasses. Harold was last seen wearing a
Speaker 6: gray shirt, black pants, black suspenders, and hiking boots. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: Harold's case has not yet been submitted to name US,
Speaker 6: and no further details are available at this time. Anyone
Speaker 6: with any information or may have seen herald that day,
Speaker 6: please contact the Monterey County Sheriff's Department at eight three
Speaker 6: to one seven five five three seven two two number one.
Speaker 6: Richard Harville, sixty seven year old Vietnam veteran Richard Harvelle
Speaker 6: and his friend set off into the Mojave Desert October
Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, hoping to set up camp and eventually hike
Speaker 6: to the Hachepee Mountains well, not caring for his family.
Speaker 6: Richard loved to be outdoors, and his family even joked
Speaker 6: that he preferred the wilderness to people. On October fifteen,
Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, tragedy would strike when Richard and his friend
Speaker 6: were camping at the foot of the Tahatchepee Mountains. According
Speaker 6: to reports, the two were camping in a trailer near
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty Street to Highgate Avenue when the
Speaker 6: heavens opened up at around ten PM and torrential rains
Speaker 6: began to pour down. No one could have anticipated just
Speaker 6: how bad the rains were about to be, and those
Speaker 6: in Kern County or California were completely caught off guard.
Speaker 6: Within minutes, the rains had turned lethal and began to
Speaker 6: sweep the mud and stand through the Mohave Desert. This
Speaker 6: flood quickly overwhelmed residents and those hiking in the area,
Speaker 6: and Richard and his friend were sadly at the epicenter
Speaker 6: of it. As the rains poured down, Richard went outside
Speaker 6: the trailer to try and move his car. All of
Speaker 6: the way, and that is when tragedy struck. His friend
Speaker 6: watched as Richard was hit by a rock and was
Speaker 6: knocked under the current. As his body floated away, with
Speaker 6: little time to react, his friend desperately tried to grab
Speaker 6: hold of Richard, but the current was just too strong.
Speaker 6: Within seconds, Richard had been pulled away from his trailer
Speaker 6: and he was now missing. His family were understandably devastated
Speaker 6: when the news hit them, and they vowed to never
Speaker 6: give up looking for his body. When the rains finally
Speaker 6: calmed and the flood subsided, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Speaker 6: and the KCSO Desert Search and Rescue Team took to
Speaker 6: the skies to try and find Richard. Searches were temporarily
Speaker 6: suspended due to conditions, but when he was safe to
Speaker 6: do so, brown teams were also dispatched, but even they
Speaker 6: were unable to behind any sign of the man. The
Speaker 6: La Times supported that the Harville's family also let his
Speaker 6: dog loose, hoping the animal would be able to locate him,
Speaker 6: but the dog sat near the trailer for three days.
Speaker 6: It was unfortunately clear that the dog didn't know where
Speaker 6: to start. Despite wide scale searches. No sign of Richard
Speaker 6: has ever been found, but his family still haven't given
Speaker 6: up hope of closure. He's described as a strong and
Speaker 6: determined person and a keen survivalist. His family hopes that
Speaker 6: his army days and timing the great outdoors might have
Speaker 6: given him the skills to stay alive, and that one
Speaker 6: day they may be reunited. Richard Harvell is described as
Speaker 6: a white male with brown hair, brown eyes, standing five
Speaker 6: foot eleven and weighing one hundred and eighty five pounds.
Speaker 6: Anyone with any information is asked to please contact the
Speaker 6: current County Sheriff's Department at sixty sixty one three nine
Speaker 6: one seven six two three in reference case number SR
Speaker 6: one five to two seven three seven nine. Well, folks,
Speaker 6: there you have it. That wraps up this edition of
Speaker 6: National Park Mysteries and Disappearances. What do you think of
Speaker 6: these strange cases? We'd love to hear your opinion on
Speaker 6: these cases of the comments, but please keep it friendly
Speaker 6: and respectful till we meet again. Be good to yourselves
Speaker 6: and each other. Stay safe out there. As for me,
Speaker 6: I'll see you a little further on down the trail.
Speaker 6: I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.
Speaker 6: Hello friends, Steve Stalkton here with you. Welcome to our
Speaker 6: latest episode. In this video, we're going to discuss the
Speaker 6: strange disappearance of Osha Kramer. Join me, let's take a
Speaker 6: walk and see. Now. We come across many strange vanishings
Speaker 6: and disappearances on this channel, some in the woods and
Speaker 6: others while the person is going about their regular lives.
Speaker 6: When something happens to a person in the woods, or
Speaker 6: even when they're abducted, it's a little easier to understand
Speaker 6: how something like that could have happened. In most of
Speaker 6: these cases of abduction, at least, they are almost always
Speaker 6: clues to follow, and sometimes even an eyewitness to the event. However,
Speaker 6: when someone who is in the middle of a possible
Speaker 6: mental break or who is already having emotional trouble, it's
Speaker 6: hard to imagine how they could slip off the face
Speaker 6: of the earth, leaving no clues behind and unreliable witness
Speaker 6: statements at best and extremely confusing at worst. That's just
Speaker 6: some of what we're dealing with here in this case
Speaker 6: about the extremely bizarre and very concerning case of the
Speaker 6: vanishing of Asher Kramer in twenty fifteen, A twenty six
Speaker 6: year old woman named Asha Kramer was living with her
Speaker 6: boyfriend Jamia Gale and Albioncea, California. Asha was an Australian
Speaker 6: national and by all accounts, she was living her best
Speaker 6: life and she and Jemi were a happy couple together
Speaker 6: devoted each other. There were no known problems or issues
Speaker 6: in the relationship and all seemed perfectly normal. However, in
Speaker 6: September that same year, Asha is reported to have started
Speaker 6: showing signs of some mental disturbance. She would suddenly and
Speaker 6: without warning, scream at the top of her lungs, shout
Speaker 6: and rant, and would also go into justice sudden convulsions.
Speaker 6: She would refuse to eat or sleep for days at
Speaker 6: a time, staying up and starving herself for as long
Speaker 6: as she possibly could, for as long, it's said, as
Speaker 6: her body would let her. She was also constantly slipping
Speaker 6: in and out of catatonic trances, according to her living
Speaker 6: boyfriend Jami. Around this time, she also began discussing some
Speaker 6: vague childhood traumas she claims to happen to her, but
Speaker 6: she would never elaborate on what and when asked, she
Speaker 6: would either shut down or fly into a blind rage.
Speaker 6: Concerned for her welfare understandably, and this, combined with her
Speaker 6: going four straight days without eating, forced him to bring
Speaker 6: her in for an evaluation at a local mental health facility.
Speaker 6: Asha had no previous history of having any sort of
Speaker 6: mental health issues, and even though there was a bit
Speaker 6: of history of it in her family, she had never
Speaker 6: shown any signs of anything like this up until this point.
Speaker 6: When nothing was found to be physically wrong with her,
Speaker 6: the mental health doctors all concluded that she was indeed
Speaker 6: suffering from some sort of psychotic break and possibly a
Speaker 6: quote manic bipolar episode end quote. Now the staff at
Speaker 6: this institution deemed her not to be a danger to
Speaker 6: herself for others, though, and despite them finding she was
Speaker 6: experiencing a mental health crisis, they released her back into
Speaker 6: the custody of her boyfriend, who had no choice but
Speaker 6: to take her back home with him. This was the
Speaker 6: beginning of what would end up being an extremely strange
Speaker 6: and bizarre and still unsolved disappearance. The issue seemed to
Speaker 6: continue right from the hospital when she was released, because
Speaker 6: her boyfriend reported that wild drive home, she randomly confessed
Speaker 6: she had cheated on him, and then proceeded to try
Speaker 6: and jump from the moving vehicle. Despite all of this,
Speaker 6: the two made it back to their apartment, and Jamia
Speaker 6: was relieved when one of Asha's lifelong friends from Australia
Speaker 6: decided to come to California to visit, and he was
Speaker 6: hoping that maybe seeing and spending time with this friend,
Speaker 6: whose name was Sally Scales, would help bring Asha out
Speaker 6: of whatever this was that she was going through. Once home,
Speaker 6: Osha started confessing to murdering her neighbor, who was very
Speaker 6: much alive at the time. She was refusing to sleep
Speaker 6: and that very night burning a piece of paper and
Speaker 6: trying several times to start her car. It's unknown what
Speaker 6: the paper was she was burning and while she was
Speaker 6: unable to start her car, what her efforts were for naught.
Speaker 6: At one point during the night, after being released to
Speaker 6: the custody of her boyfriend, he and OSHA's best friend Sally,
Speaker 6: found her outside and after searching for her for a
Speaker 6: few minutes, they found her standing very still behind a tree.
Speaker 6: She had been watching them search for the whole time,
Speaker 6: but hadn't said a word or moved it all. On
Speaker 6: another occasion, while her friend was still visiting and staying
Speaker 6: with her and Jamia, she went outside in the midll
Speaker 6: of the night and started running full speed away from
Speaker 6: the two of them, and they couldn't catch up with her.
Speaker 6: She eventually came back though that same night and explained
Speaker 6: she had simply felt like running throughout all of this insanity.
Speaker 6: She was also refusing to eat and was said to
Speaker 6: be generally acting bizarrely and completely out of character. The
Speaker 6: morning after the running incident, both Jamia and Sally thought
Speaker 6: it would be good to get Ash out of the
Speaker 6: house during the daytime and let her get some fresh
Speaker 6: air in order to maybe help her get her head
Speaker 6: straight again. They wanted her to go back to being
Speaker 6: the young and vibrant woman they knew so well and
Speaker 6: love so much. The three of them got into the
Speaker 6: car and embarked on the approximately three hour drive from
Speaker 6: albiond to San Francisco to see Asha's mother. The hope
Speaker 6: was that seeing her mother would help to put her
Speaker 6: life into perspective again, ease her mind, and bring her
Speaker 6: out of whatever it was in her mind that was
Speaker 6: causing this funk. It was a lofty hope and a
Speaker 6: shot in the dark, for sure, but he didn't know
Speaker 6: what else to do, and Sally agreed that this was
Speaker 6: a good idea. Little did they know, though, that this
Speaker 6: one well meaning decision would change the course of all
Speaker 6: through their lives forever and be the start of a
Speaker 6: mystery that still continues to this very day. At some
Speaker 6: point early on in their trip, they all stopped to
Speaker 6: have breakfast at a place called the Rollerville Cafe, which
Speaker 6: was near Point Arena in Ploomeville. While at the table
Speaker 6: and ordering their food, Asha refused to speak or make
Speaker 6: eye contact with the waitress and wouldn't touch her meal.
Speaker 6: Jamia and Sally decided not to leave despite OSHA's odd behavior,
Speaker 6: because she wasn't being overbly obnoxious. She was simply acting strangely,
Speaker 6: which by now they were becoming somewhat used to. Unfortunately.
Speaker 6: During their meal, Sally excused herself to go to the
Speaker 6: ladies room and walked in that direction. A minute or
Speaker 6: so later, Osha said she also had to go to
Speaker 6: the restroom and got up, seemingly following closely behind her
Speaker 6: best friend. After a few minutes had passed, Sally returned
Speaker 6: to the table without Asha. When Jemia asked where Asha was,
Speaker 6: Sally told him that Asha had never come into the
Speaker 6: restroom at all, and she didn't know where she'd gone.
Speaker 6: Jamai was sure Asha had gone in the direction of
Speaker 6: the restroom, but when he and Sally went back to
Speaker 6: look for she wasn't in there and nowhere inside at all.
Speaker 6: The restaurants staff and even some of the other customers
Speaker 6: helped the two of them search the general vicinity and
Speaker 6: surrounding areas for Usha, but to no avail, And despite
Speaker 6: being called almost immediately, the authorities didn't have any more luck.
Speaker 6: No one could find Asha, and no one had any
Speaker 6: idea where she possibly could have gone. It's another case
Speaker 6: of someone being there one moment and gone the next,
Speaker 6: disappeared in the blink of an eye. After searching in
Speaker 6: and around the restaurant, the police expanded their search efforts.
Speaker 6: When they did, they found their first clue on a
Speaker 6: trail near the Point Arena lighthouse. They found OSHA's jacket
Speaker 6: this garden lying there on the side of the trail.
Speaker 6: The first thought of everyone involved was that perhaps due
Speaker 6: to her recent mental state, Asha had jumped to her
Speaker 6: death into the dark and rough sea below the lighthouse itself. However,
Speaker 6: there was never any evidence to corroborate this, no signs
Speaker 6: she'd approach the ledge and nobody ever washed up. Other
Speaker 6: clues soon turned up, but each one seemed to only
Speaker 6: further confuse the mystery. OSHA's cell phone was eventually found
Speaker 6: in some bushes near the home she shared with Jemia,
Speaker 6: and it was later found that two messages had been
Speaker 6: deleted from it. This seems to have been done very
Speaker 6: close to when she disappeared, but the authorities could never
Speaker 6: tell if her phone or the deleted messages had anything
Speaker 6: to do with their disappearance, and the contents of those
Speaker 6: messages have never been released to the public. Several witnesses
Speaker 6: did come forward claiming to have seen a woman matching
Speaker 6: OSHA's description on or near the day she disappeared, but sadly,
Speaker 6: none of these sightings could ever be confirmed as actually
Speaker 6: being Asha. One witness came forward and said he had
Speaker 6: seen Asha at the beach on the day she disappeared,
Speaker 6: and another person claimed to have seen her in a
Speaker 6: grocery store four days after she'd gone missing. Despite the
Speaker 6: authorities working tirelessly on this case and her family continuing
Speaker 6: their search never giving up hope, no new leeds or
Speaker 6: clues have ever come up or been found. Many people
Speaker 6: familiar with this case agree that the extreme shifts in
Speaker 6: OSHA's personality, plus the fact that she seems to have
Speaker 6: disappeared right before the eyes of not just her boyfriend
Speaker 6: and her best friend Sally, but of many other potential
Speaker 6: witnesses in the form of customers at the restaurant that day.
Speaker 6: There are several theories, and as we go through some
Speaker 6: of them, please keep in mind that no one has
Speaker 6: ever been charged with anything relating to her disappearance, and
Speaker 6: there's never been any mention by the authorities of any
Speaker 6: sort of foul play. The most widespread theory is that
Speaker 6: OSHA's boyfriend was involved somehow in her disappearance. Again, this
Speaker 6: is unsubstantiated. No one has been named as a suspect
Speaker 6: or a person of interest. Many people put a lot
Speaker 6: of stock in the fact that her cell phone was
Speaker 6: found with messages recentably deleted, and the bushes near home
Speaker 6: not long after a disappearance, with OSHA's state of mind
Speaker 6: in the time leading up to the disappearance, and how
Speaker 6: many times she was caught hiding in the bushes or
Speaker 6: running around in her night clothes. The authorities haven't named
Speaker 6: anyone as a person of interest, and it's in the
Speaker 6: end unknown whether or not this theory holds much water.
Speaker 6: Another theory is that perhaps she had a full blown
Speaker 6: psychotic break and perhaps suffered some form of amnesia due
Speaker 6: to the seeming severity of her mental state leading up
Speaker 6: to the time she disappeared. Is Asha out there somewhere
Speaker 6: wandering around not knowing who or perhaps even where she is.
Speaker 6: This is thought to be the best case scenario, and
Speaker 6: if it is true, we hope that desperading the word
Speaker 6: about her strange and tragic disappearance, perhaps someone somewhere will
Speaker 6: come across her and realize who she is. There's also
Speaker 6: a lot of speculation regarding where Osh's jacket was found
Speaker 6: the day she disappeared, and some people who put weight
Speaker 6: on this clue think perhaps she did take her own
Speaker 6: life right there at the lighthouse. Maybe she did it
Speaker 6: unknowingly and thought, interfrazzled and confused state of mind that
Speaker 6: she was just going for a swim. Maybe, though, if
Speaker 6: she did go under the water, she did it on purpose,
Speaker 6: there's just no way of really knowing. One more theory
Speaker 6: is that Asha wandered off on purpose to start a
Speaker 6: new life somewhere as the pressures of her relationship and
Speaker 6: everything else she was going through and dealing with in
Speaker 6: her life got to her and she just doesn't want
Speaker 6: to be found. Her family and those who knew her best, though,
Speaker 6: say this isn't possible, and that if Ash had done
Speaker 6: this in seeing how much her loved ones were and
Speaker 6: still are suffering, she would have at the very least
Speaker 6: reached out to at least one of them. But she've
Speaker 6: just wandered off and come across someone who had less
Speaker 6: than honorable intentions. Again, like everything else we mentioned here,
Speaker 6: it is a possibility, however unlikely it may be. Regardless
Speaker 6: of all the theories, thoughts, speculations, the mystery certainly remains well. Friends,
Speaker 6: there you have it. What do you think of this
Speaker 6: strange disappearance? I look forward to your comments, but please
Speaker 6: keep it friendly and respectful. Till we meet again. Be
Speaker 6: good to yourselves and each other. Stay safe out there.
Speaker 6: As for me, I'll see you a little farther on
Speaker 6: down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
Speaker 6: you next time. Hold your animals close and tell them
Speaker 6: I said hi, Hello, friends, Steve's talking here with you today.
Speaker 6: We're bringing you an unusual case, calling it seven years
Speaker 6: without an answer. The strange disappearance of Jesse Farber. Let's
Speaker 6: walk and see. On August eleventh, twenty fifteen, twenty nine
Speaker 6: year old Jesse Farber, also known as Rex, called his
Speaker 6: girlfriend in a panic and conveyed to her that he
Speaker 6: was being chased by coyotes and was in a tree.
Speaker 6: Barbara was walking in the Tamaqua, Pennsylvania area, near a
Speaker 6: place called the Coal Hills when he set a pack
Speaker 6: of coyoties chased him up a tree, purting to his
Speaker 6: girlfriend Rachel Carroll, who were going to talk to in
Speaker 6: an exclusive interview. Towards the end of this video, at
Speaker 6: around seven to twenty pm, a man reported seeing Farber
Speaker 6: walking around the s curves on Hunter Street, headed south
Speaker 6: away from Tamaqua. This area leads to the trail that
Speaker 6: has coal fields littered with mining holes in the ground,
Speaker 6: some as deep as one hundred and forty feet. Tamacott
Speaker 6: Police Chief Henry Wood stated it was possible Farber imagined
Speaker 6: coyotes in some sort of hallucination before he ran and
Speaker 6: fell into one of the hundreds of deep coal pits
Speaker 6: on the mountain. Police Chief Woods went on to say,
Speaker 6: our theory is that he was under the influence thinking
Speaker 6: cowodies were chasing him, and he comes down from the
Speaker 6: tree and he runs west, runs all the way by
Speaker 6: these stripping holes and falls into one Norma Fritz Jesse.
Speaker 6: Faber's mother thinks otherwise, though there's been talk about a
Speaker 6: little drug gang and lots of rumors that they did
Speaker 6: away with him, that it wasn't animals chasing him at all,
Speaker 6: it was a gang called the Cooties. His rumors that
Speaker 6: he was shot and put through a wood shipper, that's
Speaker 6: the most horrendous rumor, the grieving mother said. Police have
Speaker 6: followed the rumors and have found no supporting evidence that
Speaker 6: the rumors are true. In December of twenty sixteen, a
Speaker 6: man hunting in the area where Farber said he was
Speaker 6: not a pair of sweatpants, and knowing about the case,
Speaker 6: called Farber's grandparents to identify the piece of clothing. While
Speaker 6: in the area, and having established that the pants did
Speaker 6: in fact belongs to their grandson, the grandmother spotted a
Speaker 6: bag tied in the tree near where the sweatpants were found.
Speaker 6: Allegedly iteams in the bag also belonged to Farber, which
Speaker 6: included a pen his grandfather had given him. The police
Speaker 6: were able to use the area where the items were
Speaker 6: found to piece together timeline with the eyewitness sighting at
Speaker 6: seven to twenty pm on August eleventh, twenty fifteen, when
Speaker 6: Farbert was spotted by passing motorists and when the phone
Speaker 6: call was placed to his girlfriend. Police stated that it
Speaker 6: takes an hour and forty nine minutes to walk from
Speaker 6: the s Curve where the motors saw Farbr to the
Speaker 6: coal Hill tree where the items were found. Woods went
Speaker 6: on to say if Farber were panicked and went running
Speaker 6: moments later, he probably plunged down a deep hole in
Speaker 6: the dark. The holes are all around the path and
Speaker 6: there's no way you could run through there without falling
Speaker 6: into one of those holes. Immediately after Farber was reported missing,
Speaker 6: search and rescue teams descended on the area and began
Speaker 6: to search for him. This was the area where he
Speaker 6: was initially reported as being They went up behind the
Speaker 6: high school yelling for him, and they didn't hear anything. Actually,
Speaker 6: they were nowhere close to where the bag was found
Speaker 6: in the tree. It was miles away. Wood stated. Barber's
Speaker 6: mother said that she'd been to the Skinny Tree several
Speaker 6: times since her son went missing, and said she had
Speaker 6: no sense that her son died on that mountain, or
Speaker 6: that her son would wander off, frighten my visions of cowties,
Speaker 6: climb any tree, then run off a cliff. She also
Speaker 6: doubts that Farvard left a sweat pants and bag in
Speaker 6: the tree and thinks that evidence was planted, adding that
Speaker 6: it was more likely the Cavity Gang they planted the
Speaker 6: items to throw police off the investigation. Fritz wants the
Speaker 6: police to investigate the drug gang angle and believes they
Speaker 6: targeted her son. I personally eat, sleep and breathe looking
Speaker 6: for my son, and the police they're physically not doing anything,
Speaker 6: Fritz stated when asked how she thought the police were
Speaker 6: handling the case. Tamica police, however, say that they have
Speaker 6: investigated the gang angle and have even offered several people
Speaker 6: arresting a deal if they can provide information as to
Speaker 6: the whereabouts and farver, but no one knew anything. According
Speaker 6: to the police, there have been several searches done with
Speaker 6: cadaver dogs that have turned up nothing, but the police
Speaker 6: staid there're still willing to keep searching. Eleven was the
Speaker 6: seventh anniversary of Jesse Fober's disappearance. His mother has set
Speaker 6: up a Facebook page for outside tips and information from
Speaker 6: the public. Terms for Jesse Fober missing will have a
Speaker 6: link in the description. This case also caused new legislation
Speaker 6: to be passed in how missing persons cases are handled
Speaker 6: in the state. Norma Jeene fitz Yasko helped get a
Speaker 6: bill pass that requires law enforcement to collect the person's
Speaker 6: DNA within ten days of them being reported missing and
Speaker 6: entering into NAMOS, a national DNA database. Currently, there are
Speaker 6: only ten states with such laws, with Pennsylvania making the eleven.
Speaker 6: On average, there are about six hundred and sixty thousand
Speaker 6: people reported missing, and Pennsylvania ranks tenth in the nation
Speaker 6: with unsolved missing person cases at four hundred and sixty seven.
Speaker 6: NamUs also allows family members to enner information about their
Speaker 6: missing load ones, which could aid in helping them to
Speaker 6: be found. Do you have any information on the whereabouts
Speaker 6: of Jesse Farber or any details about the night he
Speaker 6: went missing, Please contact the Tamacow Police Department at five
Speaker 6: seven zero six six eight five zero zero zero and
Speaker 6: reference name is case I D three zero seven three two.
Speaker 6: And now here's that exclusive interview with Jesse's ex girlfriend
Speaker 6: and the mother of his children. Steve's talking here missing
Speaker 6: Persons and Mysteries. Today on the phone with me is
Speaker 6: Rachel Carroll, who reached out to us to help her
Speaker 6: find the father of her children who went missing in
Speaker 6: the woods seven years ago. Yesterday, Rachel, how are you
Speaker 6: doing today?
Speaker 10: Pretty good? How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm doing good And I understand that that's probably a
Speaker 6: hard anniversary for you anytime the time of the year
Speaker 6: comes around again, especially your children. Yes, yeah, but want
Speaker 6: to say thank you for reaching out to us. We'd
Speaker 6: love to help keep his name out there and boost
Speaker 6: the signal and get it in front of him.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, So if you would there, go ahead, and
Speaker 6: it's a strange case, go ahead there and tell us
Speaker 6: your version of what happened.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 11: So. Jesse Foarnber, also known as Jesse Wreck, he went
Speaker 11: missing on August eleventh, twoenty fifteen, into Maak with Pa.
Speaker 11: What happened was is that Jesse called me at eight
Speaker 11: forty three pm. The first thing he told me was
Speaker 11: to bring guns. He said he was in the mountain
Speaker 11: behind the Timokher Area High School. He told me he
Speaker 11: was in a tree and attend to eleven coyotes were
Speaker 11: after him.
Speaker 10: He also said that his phone was about to die.
Speaker 11: He switched his location from the high school to the
Speaker 11: elementary school mountain, and then he went back to the
Speaker 11: high school. When I asked him for sure where he was,
Speaker 11: he said.
Speaker 10: To high school. And I asked him again, he said, yeah,
Speaker 10: the high school. And just as I.
Speaker 11: Asked him for his exact location there, he started to
Speaker 11: speak and then his phone hung up. I called back
Speaker 11: immediately a bunch of times, and it just went right
Speaker 11: to the voicemail. And so within just a few minutes,
Speaker 11: I went right up to the high school mountain and
Speaker 11: me and my brother were up there searching for quite
Speaker 11: a while. We were driving around, beeping, We turned the
Speaker 11: car off and listen. We walked around on foot. We
Speaker 11: were yelling to him, and there was nothing up there
Speaker 11: at all. There was We couldn't find anything. So then
Speaker 11: after we were up there for a few hours, I
Speaker 11: went and I called it to Michael Police and they
Speaker 11: took a report and they put him on They said
Speaker 11: it was like a national missing person's list or whatever. Immediately,
Speaker 11: and so after that, you know, searches were involved. There
Speaker 11: were searches on foot, cad iver dogs, there was a
Speaker 11: search of an air shaft, there was underwater searches. There
Speaker 11: was drones, military helicopters, A lot of things were done,
Speaker 11: but nothing was ever found. And his book bag was
Speaker 11: found later I think it was December of twenty sixteen,
Speaker 11: where his family identified it as his. But in my opinion,
Speaker 11: I don't believe that that is his bag. I was
Speaker 11: never able to see that bag myself. I can't even
Speaker 11: get to look at a picture of it or anything
Speaker 11: to know for sure. And pretty much that's where I'm
Speaker 11: at now. I'm looking for help in any way that
Speaker 11: I can to get more searches done or get any
Speaker 11: groups or organizations that will help me in spreading his
Speaker 11: name and his story and hopefully in finding answers and
Speaker 11: bringing him home.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're happy to help you spread that awareness and
Speaker 6: keep his name out there. Understand that you have two
Speaker 6: young children together, and you said earlier that they suffer
Speaker 6: his disappearance every day, so that's got to be rough
Speaker 6: on them.
Speaker 11: Yeah, it is the hard they're doing, Okay, I mean
Speaker 11: they have a hard time every now and then, but
Speaker 11: they're doing the best they could.
Speaker 6: They're strong, God bless them. Now you mentioned I have
Speaker 6: just a couple of questions here for you that we're
Speaker 6: putting together a video here to go along with this.
Speaker 6: But now you mentioned that it was he said there
Speaker 6: was ten or eleven coyotes that chased him up a tree.
Speaker 6: Is that correct?
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's what he told me. He said he was
Speaker 10: in the tree at the time that he called me.
Speaker 6: And that's I mean, kyudy attacks are rare, it does happen,
Speaker 6: especially when they travel. Impacts like that, it looks to
Speaker 6: me like if it had been coyotes. And then my
Speaker 6: first question really was did he mean kayoties like the
Speaker 6: animals or sometimes human traffickers or smugglers are referred to
Speaker 6: as coyotes. I thought maybe people were after him, But
Speaker 6: you think based on what he said, that it was
Speaker 6: animal coyoties. Correct.
Speaker 11: Yeah, from what he told me or what it sounded
Speaker 11: like to me, I think that he meant the animals.
Speaker 11: But I don't necessarily pull believe that it was animals
Speaker 11: because I really think that there would have been some
Speaker 11: kind of evidence found if there was any kind of
Speaker 11: animal attack, because I mean there's mount lions and bears
Speaker 11: here and stuff also, but there would have been some
Speaker 11: kind of evidence left behind if any kind of animal
Speaker 11: attack had happened.
Speaker 10: And there was nothing.
Speaker 6: I totally agree if there was any kind of animal predation,
Speaker 6: there would be some physical or forensic evidence left behind there.
Speaker 6: I mean, even if they eat the entire person. Sorry
Speaker 6: to say that, but you know, they don't eat your clothing.
Speaker 6: They don't eat your belt buckle, they don't eat your shoes,
Speaker 6: things like that. Plus there would have been a disturbance
Speaker 6: in the groundcover and other, like I said, forensic evidence
Speaker 6: and things. There would have been some sign of a
Speaker 6: struggle and stuff beyond that. So that's that in and
Speaker 6: of itself is kind of strange. Now, Also the part
Speaker 6: about him being confused about which mountain he was on,
Speaker 6: it sounds like there's one behind the high school and
Speaker 6: then a different one behind the elementary school.
Speaker 11: Yeah, like into Marqua, it's like kind of like in
Speaker 11: a ditch and it's surrounded by mountains.
Speaker 10: And we spent a lot of time on the mountains.
Speaker 11: And that's kind of like the names that we had
Speaker 11: for them, Like we would call the mountain that was
Speaker 11: behind the high school the high School Mountain, and that
Speaker 11: the one behind the elementary the Elementary Mountain. So that's
Speaker 11: what he'd been when he said that, And I understood that,
Speaker 11: but Yeah, that bothers me a lot. Why you know,
Speaker 11: he he changed it as if he wasn't sure where
Speaker 11: he was. And the other thing that bothers me too is,
Speaker 11: like I said, we've spent a lot of time back there,
Speaker 11: you know, me, Jesse, our friends, our family, And if
Speaker 11: he would have been able to tell me something like,
Speaker 11: you know, a certain area, most likely I would have
Speaker 11: known exactly where he's meant. So for the phone to
Speaker 11: cut out at that exact time that bothers me a
Speaker 11: lot because I feel like if I would have got
Speaker 11: that piece of information, I probably would have known exactly
Speaker 11: where he was talking about because we knew those mountains
Speaker 11: so well. So that far, you know, that's bothersome too,
Speaker 11: because it.
Speaker 6: Was unfortunate timing there for that to happen. So he
Speaker 6: was familiar with the area, and you said, it's somewhere
Speaker 6: where you all spent a lot of time together, so
Speaker 6: he knew the area. Well. Now, have you ever encountered
Speaker 6: kaody or anything? And then you mentioned bears, mountain lions.
Speaker 6: Have you ever seen any big animals in there before?
Speaker 11: I've seen bears, I've seen a mountain lion once, I've
Speaker 11: seen a coyote one time, and it was by itself
Speaker 11: and it was like pretty big, and I was kind
Speaker 11: of shocked to see it. But otherwise I have never
Speaker 11: seen any coyotes or anything. So yeah, there's definitely a
Speaker 11: lot of different animals up there, but yeah, I've.
Speaker 10: Never seen coyotes except for that one time.
Speaker 6: And I'm thinking since he was up a tree and
Speaker 6: obviously afraid of what was about to happen, that might
Speaker 6: have been why he was confused about the location exactly.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Possibly Again here, I'm just just throwing things out there,
Speaker 6: but yeah, the whole thing sounds kind of strange. I mean,
Speaker 6: you don't hear that many koty attacks. I read some
Speaker 6: statistics and you're more likely to be killed by an
Speaker 6: eric golf ball or a champagne for then you are
Speaker 6: a coyote.
Speaker 11: Attack, So right, I think it's strange. Also, I really do.
Speaker 10: I spend every day trying to.
Speaker 11: Figure that phone call out every single thing that he
Speaker 11: said to me, and that call is weird, like him
Speaker 11: even mentioning to bring guns at that time, I didn't
Speaker 11: even own guns, so it's just everything about it was
Speaker 11: really weird. And I also wondered, like if he was
Speaker 11: in the woods like Why did he wait till that
Speaker 11: exact point to call me? Like, why didn't he try
Speaker 11: and call earlier? Maybe he didn't have the opportunity, but
Speaker 11: it just so happened that he called right when the phone.
Speaker 10: Was about to die.
Speaker 11: And it's just it's all very strange and it doesn't
Speaker 11: make sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Now, just out of curiosity, do you know what
Speaker 6: he was doing in that area? Was he just out
Speaker 6: there hiking or just enjoying nature.
Speaker 11: Or well on like on the Marqua side of that mountain,
Speaker 11: On the other side of the mountain, you can say,
Speaker 11: is Lewistown Valley, and his grandmother lived out there and
Speaker 11: that's where he was staying. But also on the other
Speaker 11: side of that mountain, we both worked at Livey's Theairy.
Speaker 11: So I wondered if he was because there was a
Speaker 11: way that he used to him and his brother's used
Speaker 11: to like there was a short cut they had over
Speaker 11: the mountain and they would be able to come.
Speaker 10: Right out into their gram's backyard.
Speaker 11: So I was thinking, was he trying to get there
Speaker 11: or was he trying to get to take a short
Speaker 11: cut to work? But I still find it strange that
Speaker 11: he would try to walk that distance instead of just
Speaker 11: calling for a.
Speaker 6: Ride, going for a ride. Yeah, the whole thing. And
Speaker 6: it almost and this is just to me an outsider,
Speaker 6: almost sounds like he may have been talking in code
Speaker 6: or trying to say something to you without coming right
Speaker 6: out and saying it. But I don't know. It's just
Speaker 6: I get I said the whole thing. There's just lots
Speaker 6: of bizarre pieces about it. And then you said the
Speaker 6: book bag was later found in a tree, but you
Speaker 6: since you haven't been able to see it, you're not
Speaker 6: even sure if it was his book bag or not.
Speaker 10: And yeah, I'm not.
Speaker 6: So was that taken into evidence by the police or.
Speaker 10: It was not?
Speaker 11: His family He had identified it by a pin they
Speaker 11: said that was on the bag. But that's another reason
Speaker 11: that I have trouble believe in that, because my son
Speaker 11: has possession of that pin right now. So that's the
Speaker 11: weird thing. And the police don't have it in evidence.
Speaker 11: They never took it into evidence. They released it to
Speaker 11: his mom, which I've asked her to show me, you know,
Speaker 11: even a photo of the bag, and she just refuses
Speaker 11: to do that because I feel like if I had
Speaker 11: a better if I could see that bag, I wouldn't
Speaker 11: know if it was his or not, And by that
Speaker 11: I'd be able to tell if he was really ever
Speaker 11: there or not. But I mean, I could be wrong,
Speaker 11: but I just do not believe that was his.
Speaker 6: Again, another strange circumstance. And as I mentioned, there seven
Speaker 6: years ago yesterday that it happened. Now, there are several
Speaker 6: different theories that we've spoken up. Some we can talk about,
Speaker 6: some we can't, just because now is it but the
Speaker 6: police did they considered a cold case or is it
Speaker 6: still an open investigation and ongoing?
Speaker 11: The last that I talked to them, they said it's
Speaker 11: considered open still, but that nothing new has really come
Speaker 11: come up in a while.
Speaker 6: So now is there a tip line or a Facebook
Speaker 6: page or a website where anybody can go if they
Speaker 6: did have some information to share about the case.
Speaker 11: Usually there's They usually like what I put on the
Speaker 11: missing fly or I just made I put the police's
Speaker 11: phone number, and then like I have a contact number.
Speaker 11: I know his family has their own number to contact
Speaker 11: them also, and I know his mother has a missing person.
Speaker 10: Page for him on Facebook.
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll put links to all that in the video
Speaker 6: you did for me a copy of the fire there, Okay,
Speaker 6: I'll put that information in there. Well, Rachel, we appreciate
Speaker 6: you taking the time to talk with us, and we'll
Speaker 6: certainly do all we can to keep his name and
Speaker 6: his memory out there in case somebody does. You know,
Speaker 6: somebody somewhere knows something. Somebody knows exactly. I believe that,
Speaker 6: and it can be that one little piece of information,
Speaker 6: no matter how inconsequential it might seem to someone, that
Speaker 6: might be what's needed to make it to crack the
Speaker 6: case open. But again, thank you, and our hearts go
Speaker 6: out to you and your children, and hopefully we get
Speaker 6: some tips in or at least make people aware of it.
Speaker 10: Yes, and thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, that's what we're here for. You have any
Speaker 6: parting words or requests or anything you'd like to share
Speaker 6: with the audience.
Speaker 11: I would just like to say thank you for listening
Speaker 11: to Jesse's story, and thank you for you know, you know,
Speaker 11: listening and helping in any way that you can.
Speaker 10: Spread spread his name and story around. And if anyone
Speaker 10: has any information, if you could, you.
Speaker 11: Know, report it to its markl Please, even if it's anonymous.
Speaker 10: Anything, anything is helpful.
Speaker 11: Even the littlest thing that you think wouldn't connect could
Speaker 11: mean a lot in this case, and thank you very
Speaker 11: very much.
Speaker 6: Oh you're quite welcome our pleasure to help you and
Speaker 6: your children out there. And uh, if the audience, if
Speaker 6: the listeners have any further questions, all forward those to
Speaker 6: you and we'll do an update at some point. All right,
Speaker 6: well we will let you go. Thanks again for your time,
Speaker 6: and I hope for the best, and you know, hug
Speaker 6: your kids for me. That's just breaks my hearty till
Speaker 6: those children involved. We've got a case out here in
Speaker 6: New Mexico that we covered involves missing murdered indigenous women,
Speaker 6: which is almost an epidemic out here, and it talked
Speaker 6: about the little boy would text his mom every day
Speaker 6: say Mommy, when are you coming home? And she's been
Speaker 6: missing for a couple of years, and that just that
Speaker 6: just tears your heart out to think about that. I mean,
Speaker 6: I can't imagine it is.
Speaker 11: It's very sad because they're so young and they and
Speaker 11: they don't understand and uh, they just want, you know,
Speaker 11: their parents, and it is very sad. I give my
Speaker 11: kids a lot of credit for their strength. I really
Speaker 11: do thank you again, Steve. I really appreciate just like
Speaker 11: I can't be saying words like what this means to me,
Speaker 11: my kids, my family.
Speaker 6: I understand, and just not knowing would have to be
Speaker 6: the worst. I mean closure either way, to find out,
Speaker 6: you know where he is and what happened, But to
Speaker 6: not know one way or the other, that that's torture.
Speaker 11: It is it's having to grieve like continuously and it's hard.
Speaker 10: But I have hope.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, we'll bless your heart. God bless all of you. There.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 6: Well, friends, there you have it. What do you think
Speaker 6: of this strange case? Look forward to your comments, but
Speaker 6: please keep it friendly and respectful, as we do expect
Speaker 6: the family to watch this video and read the comments
Speaker 6: till we meet again. Be good to yourselves and each other.
Speaker 6: Stay safe out there. As for me, I'll see a
Speaker 6: little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton and
Speaker 6: I'll talk to you next time. Tell your pets I said.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 12: No, Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode.
Speaker 6: This time we invite you to join us as we
Speaker 6: discuss some of the absolute strangest missing person cases that
Speaker 6: we've ever encountered. You have theories on any of these,
Speaker 6: if so, please share, We'd love to hear them. Jared negrite.
Speaker 6: Thirteen year old Jared Negrete was a boy scout who
Speaker 6: was on his first overnight backpacking trip. He was last
Speaker 6: seen on Friday, nineteenth of July nineteen ninety one at
Speaker 6: about six pm, when he fell behind his fellow scouts
Speaker 6: on a hike to the summit of the eleven five
Speaker 6: hundred foot mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino National Forest,
Speaker 6: southern California. Another group of hikers spotted Jared straggler behind
Speaker 6: and notified the scout troop leader at the mountain summit,
Speaker 6: but the leader had experienced hiker said he would pick
Speaker 6: up Jared on the way down. When the leader finally
Speaker 6: decided to descend the mountain, Chared was nowhere to be seen.
Speaker 6: As soon as the troop leader realized that Jared had disappeared,
Speaker 6: he accompanied his five other scouts back to the base
Speaker 6: camp and then hiked about five miles in the dark
Speaker 6: to get help. Sam Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies, along with
Speaker 6: search and rescue teams from as Farest Way, As, Sierra Madre,
Speaker 6: and San Dimas, began searching one hundred and thirty square
Speaker 6: mile area of the San Gorganio wilderness a rocky tree
Speaker 6: lined terrain. Within three days, their search was focused on
Speaker 6: a six square mile area where a footprint to believe
Speaker 6: to match one of Jared's high top tennis shoes was found.
Speaker 6: Searchers also discovered beef, jerky and candy wrappers believed to
Speaker 6: have been dropped by the scout, and most importantly, his
Speaker 6: camera was located. On the film role were twelve pictures.
Speaker 6: Most of the photos were landscape scenes, apparently taken before
Speaker 6: Jared went missing, but the final picture on the role
Speaker 6: of film was a photograph of the scout's eyes and nose,
Speaker 6: taken with the aid of the camera's flash, possibly at
Speaker 6: night after he disappeared. Family members said it appeared Jared
Speaker 6: had pointed the camera at his face and snapped the picture.
Speaker 6: It seemed possible that the boy had lost the camera
Speaker 6: while sliding down a portion of the mountain side. At
Speaker 6: least seventy officers, some of whom were lifted by an
Speaker 6: helicopter into the forest, and horseback riders as well as
Speaker 6: helicopters of the infrared were deployed. Over the next two weeks.
Speaker 6: As many as three thousand people had logged forty five
Speaker 6: thousand hours scouring fifty square miles of the San Bernardino
Speaker 6: National Forest Fromangelus Oaks to Whitewater Canyon. Almost thirty years later,
Speaker 6: no other clues to Jared's disappearance of surface, and he
Speaker 6: remains missing. Casey Hathaway and the Bear. Three year old
Speaker 6: Casey Hathaway disappeared from his great grandmother's backyard on January
Speaker 6: twenty fifth, twenty nineteen. Casey was playing with two other
Speaker 6: relatives in his great grandmother's backyard the day he went missing.
Speaker 6: When he didn't come inside when the others did, his
Speaker 6: family started searching for him. After forty five minutes past,
Speaker 6: his grandmother called nine one one. He was walking in
Speaker 6: the woods back there and we can't find him, his
Speaker 6: great grandmother told the nine one one dispatcher. The other
Speaker 6: ones came through the house but left him there, and
Speaker 6: he walked off somewhere and we can't find him. Search
Speaker 6: and rescue teams from across the state immediately came together
Speaker 6: to brave the treacher's terrain and low temperatures, hoping to
Speaker 6: find a Casey. Three days later, rescuers were still combing
Speaker 6: the woods when they heard the missing through old boy
Speaker 6: call out for his mother. In the emergency room, Casey
Speaker 6: started talking about what happened in the woods. He said
Speaker 6: he had a friend that was a bear. The bear
Speaker 6: took care of him and campin warm while he was
Speaker 6: lost in the woods. Casey goes on to say that
Speaker 6: the bear also fed in berries. Now, the local sheriff
Speaker 6: stated that there are bears in the woods of Craven County,
Speaker 6: North Carolina, but there's no evidence to prove one was
Speaker 6: with Casey. He goes on to say, all that matters
Speaker 6: is that something was there to come for Casey during
Speaker 6: the three days he was missing. Carol van Houla heerie
Speaker 6: o Ca van Holla, went missing on June twenty eighth,
Speaker 6: nineteen fifty nine, in the Dickinson County Picnic Grounds in Michigan.
Speaker 6: Van Hula's had four daughters and took them to the
Speaker 6: Dickson County Picnic Grounds at Norway Lake for an afternoon
Speaker 6: of outdoor fun. Carol's mother was reading the group for
Speaker 6: dinner when she noticed Carrol was missing. After a quick search,
Speaker 6: law enforcement was notified. A large scale search was conducted
Speaker 6: using five hundred searchers, a helicopter in canines. Although the
Speaker 6: canines picked up on her scent, they would then lose it.
Speaker 6: About thirteen hours into the search, the search and rescue
Speaker 6: team could hear a faint cry from a child in
Speaker 6: an area having laden with swamp and underbrush. Authorities found Carol.
Speaker 6: The previous September, a four year old boy had vanished
Speaker 6: under similar circumstances, but he was found dead of exposure
Speaker 6: four days after he went missing. Carol was taken to
Speaker 6: hospital with scratches and signs of exposure. David Gonzalez David
Speaker 6: Gonzalez disappeared while camping with his family in Fawnskin, California,
Speaker 6: on July thirty first, two thousand and four. David asked
Speaker 6: his mother if he could have the truck keys. There
Speaker 6: was a box of cookies in the truck and he
Speaker 6: wanted a treat. The vehicle was only fifty yards forty
Speaker 6: six meters away, and his mother watched him as he
Speaker 6: walked to the parking lot near the Big Bear Lake
Speaker 6: campsite in northern California San Bernardino National Forest. She turned
Speaker 6: her back for a second, and when she looked around again,
Speaker 6: David was gone. David's mother reported that she heard no
Speaker 6: sound at all while her back was turned, though she
Speaker 6: did see a baige truck speeding out of the campground
Speaker 6: around the time that her son went missing. Since there
Speaker 6: were no signs of abduction, authorities did not pursue that lead.
Speaker 6: The cookies that David went to get were still in
Speaker 6: his family's locked vehicle, so he never made it to
Speaker 6: the truck. Rescue teams in San Bernardino County scoured the
Speaker 6: woods for David. They found no signs of struggle or
Speaker 6: of the boy. The search went on for nine days,
Speaker 6: but rescuers never found him alive. In twenty fifteen, hikers
Speaker 6: stumbled upon David's remains about a mile from his family's campsite.
Speaker 6: Authorities chuck this up to a mountain lion attack, but
Speaker 6: how could a mountain lion have signed only dragged a
Speaker 6: nine year old boy a mile without leaving any blood
Speaker 6: or signs of struggle. Surely David would have screamed and
Speaker 6: cried out, but nobody at the campground, including his mother,
Speaker 6: reported hearing or seeing anything. Ambrose Smith gone for twenty
Speaker 6: four hours. Ambrose Smith normally played happily at home in
Speaker 6: Newego County, Michigan, but on October eighth, twenty thirteen, Ambrose
Speaker 6: was sitting in the lounge with her father when he
Speaker 6: briefly left the room, and upon his return, she was
Speaker 6: nowhere to be found. A massive search involving hundreds of
Speaker 6: volunteers was immediately activated, covering the entire surrounding area. It
Speaker 6: wasn't until the next day that Ambrose was found a
Speaker 6: few miles from her home. Strangely, she was discovered in
Speaker 6: a location that had been extensively searched the previous day.
Speaker 6: How the little girl had managed to traverse such a
Speaker 6: huge distance and evade the search teams who sprang into
Speaker 6: action so soon after her disappearance remains a complete mystery.
Speaker 6: Catherine van Alst, eight year old Katherine van Alst, disappeared
Speaker 6: from Devil's Den State Park, near Arkansas's Ozark National Forest
Speaker 6: when she and her family were camping. Catherine apparently was
Speaker 6: playing with her brothers when she wandered off and got lost.
Speaker 6: What makes Catherine's disappearance remarkable is she was found six
Speaker 6: days later. When found, she was wandering the woods and
Speaker 6: was eerily calm. University of Arkansas student Border Chadwick was
Speaker 6: part of the search party that found Catherine. He told
Speaker 6: the Pittsburgh Press that when he found her, she walked
Speaker 6: starically out of a cave and just said, here I am.
Speaker 6: Many other hikers have gotten lost in that part of
Speaker 6: the Ozarks and haven't been as lucky as Catherine. A
Speaker 6: grown woman was lost there for seventeen days and died
Speaker 6: just fifty yards cards from the road. How did Catherine
Speaker 6: survive in the woods for six days? Did someone take
Speaker 6: her only to return her six days later? Or is
Speaker 6: there an explanation of this story that we simply can't comprehend.
Speaker 6: Either way, someone or something might just be lurking in
Speaker 6: Devil's den. Larry Jeffrey. In nineteen sixty six, a young
Speaker 6: boy by the name of Larry Jeffrey disappeared near the
Speaker 6: peak of twelve thousand foot Mount Charleston in the Humboldt
Speaker 6: Toyabi National Forest, just a short drive from Las Vegas.
Speaker 6: The search began immediately after Jeffrey wandered away from his brothers,
Speaker 6: and within days the National Guard and a team of
Speaker 6: bloodhounds had joined the search. When Jeffrey disappeared, he was
Speaker 6: wearing light clothing, and authorities were doubtful that he could
Speaker 6: survive the cold temperatures of the desert. At night, searchers
Speaker 6: found and lost the trail a few times, and they
Speaker 6: discovered evidence that Jeffrey had been eating insects and forged
Speaker 6: berries along the way. Overall, around one thousand people searched
Speaker 6: for sixteen days but never found him. One searcher said
Speaker 6: it was though Jeffrey had just walked into oblivion. Douglas Leg.
Speaker 6: On July tenth, nineteen seventy one, eight year old Douglas
Speaker 6: Leg was on a hike in the Adirondack Forest Santanoni
Speaker 6: Preserved when his uncle spotted poison ivy and told Douglas
Speaker 6: to put on long pants to protect himself. Douglas quickly
Speaker 6: headed back towards the family's cabin, which was a straight
Speaker 6: and short distance away, but he never returned. Unlike a
Speaker 6: lot of the kids who have gone missing in the
Speaker 6: National Parks, Douglas was very familiar with these woods. His
Speaker 6: family owned the cabin where they were staying, and described
Speaker 6: Douglas as a mini woodsman because they all hiked there
Speaker 6: together so often. Blas disappearance sparked one of the Southern
Speaker 6: Adirondacks's largest search and rescue missions, with more than six
Speaker 6: hundred people searching the woods. But like David Gonzalez, Douglas
Speaker 6: left no trail, unlike in the Gonzales case, though rescuers
Speaker 6: used dogs in their search. Some accounts describe dogs following
Speaker 6: douglas scent over a thirty mile trail through difficult terrain.
Speaker 6: How could a young child, even one experiencing the woods,
Speaker 6: have traveled alone for such a distance. The family became
Speaker 6: so desperate to find Douglas that they began suspecting each
Speaker 6: other and even close friends, of abducting Douglas, but investigators
Speaker 6: were certain that Douglas had simply gotten lost. It's been
Speaker 6: nearly fifty years and Douglas has never been found. Alfred
Speaker 6: bill Harts, five year old Alfred bill Hearts is the
Speaker 6: first drowning in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, though whether
Speaker 6: Alfred actually drowned as controversial. On July second, nineteen thirty eight,
Speaker 6: Alfred had gone on a fishing trip with his parents
Speaker 6: and ten older siblings for the Independence Day weekend. Alfred
Speaker 6: was with his family on a trail near Fall River
Speaker 6: when he fell behind the rest of them and vanished.
Speaker 6: A search began immediately and expanded to more than one
Speaker 6: hundred Civilian Conservation Corps members Within forty five minutes, but
Speaker 6: there was barely any sign of Alfred anywhere. The authorities
Speaker 6: originally believed Alfred had fallen into the river. They dammed
Speaker 6: it up and dragged it for six miles, but didn't
Speaker 6: find any sign of him. Bloodhounds tract Alfred sent five
Speaker 6: hundred feet uphill before they reached a fork in the
Speaker 6: trail and lost the scent. A couple hiking in another
Speaker 6: part of the park, six miles away and twenty five
Speaker 6: hundred to three thousand feet higher elevation than the spot
Speaker 6: Alfred disappeared from, reported hearing a cry and seeing a
Speaker 6: small boy resembling Alfred on a high ridge in a
Speaker 6: treacherous area called the Devil's Nest near the top of
Speaker 6: Mount Chaplain. By the time investigators arrived there a day later,
Speaker 6: the boy was gone. An extensive ten day search involving
Speaker 6: one hundred and fifty volunteers turned up no indication of
Speaker 6: the child's whereabouts. Due to the passage of time since
Speaker 6: Alfred's disappearance, his case is no longer being investigated. He
Speaker 6: was never found. John Doe and his robot Grandma on
Speaker 6: October first, twenty ten, three and a half year old
Speaker 6: John Doe, as he's being reported, and his relatives were
Speaker 6: camping by a popular fly fishing location near Mount Shasta.
Speaker 6: Around six pm, the child's parents realized their son had
Speaker 6: suddenly gone missing. According to mister Doe, his youngster was
Speaker 6: there one second and gone the next. They scoured the
Speaker 6: area he had last been seen in complete panic, stricken horror.
Speaker 6: After hours of feverishly searching, the little boys still had
Speaker 6: not turned up. Now desperate, the distraught father decided to
Speaker 6: call local police deputies in the United States for service officers.
Speaker 6: Rescue personnel calmed the forest well into the night, yet
Speaker 6: there was no sign of the toddler. Five hours after
Speaker 6: John had disappeared, authorities found him laid down on the
Speaker 6: brush directly next to the trail that had been previously searched.
Speaker 6: He appeared to be in a dazed, semi conscious state.
Speaker 6: Mister Missus Dowe attributed this to exhaustion and were simply
Speaker 6: grateful that little One returned physically unharmed. Medical staff gave
Speaker 6: full cleance, so the freshly reunited family were permitted to
Speaker 6: return home. Everyone's lives quickly went back to normal, yet
Speaker 6: only a few weeks later, the small boy would share
Speaker 6: a disturbing tale about his terriforing ordeal. One day, Little
Speaker 6: John's grandmother, Kathy, who he called Cappy, was playing with him. Suddenly,
Speaker 6: he looked towards her and said that he didn't like
Speaker 6: the other Grandma Cappy. Confused, she asked him what exactly
Speaker 6: he meant. Little John explained that while he was lost
Speaker 6: in the woods, he'd been taken deep inside a mountainside
Speaker 6: cave by woman he thought was Grandma Cappy. She led
Speaker 6: him into a cool, dark, spider infested room filled with
Speaker 6: motionless humanoid robots. Scattered across the floor were dusty purses, guns,
Speaker 6: and other various types of weapons. As John anxiously faced
Speaker 6: his grandmother, he noticed an eerie light radiating from her head.
Speaker 6: In this moment, he realized she was not as real Granny.
Speaker 6: Grandma Cappy firmly and stroked the boy to defecate on
Speaker 6: a piece of paper. When he refused, she became increasingly
Speaker 6: agitated and repeatedly requested him to do so. Eventually, the
Speaker 6: grandma look alike to come to frustration and moved on
Speaker 6: to a different topic. Allegedly, she informed little John that
Speaker 6: he had been planted in his mother's womb and was
Speaker 6: actually from outer space. Shortly after this extraordinary account, she
Speaker 6: took the boy back outside to a thicket and advised
Speaker 6: him to wait for help. Upon hearing this disturbing story
Speaker 6: from her grandson, an outraged Grandma Kathy called her son
Speaker 6: and demanded to know what he was laying her grandchildren
Speaker 6: to watch on television. Mister Doelt lamented that he had
Speaker 6: heard an identical recollection only a few days prior. Initially,
Speaker 6: the two chalked it up to an overactive imagination. Yet
Speaker 6: the more Grandma Cathy thought about it, the more Little
Speaker 6: John's story perplexed her. What kind of TV show would
Speaker 6: feature some of the ludicrous topics that the boy was describing.
Speaker 6: Even more chilling was the idea that she might have
Speaker 6: some kind of doppelgangeress usuming her identity in order to
Speaker 6: abduct ennis and victims. With those particular thoughts in mind,
Speaker 6: Kathy decided to share a haunting experience of her own.
Speaker 6: Only a year before, she had gone on a camping
Speaker 6: trip within close proximity toward Little John's Ordela occurred in
Speaker 6: the morning, she awoke face down in the dirt. Somehow
Speaker 6: she had been inexplicably removed from the sleeping bag within
Speaker 6: her tent and transferred a short distance away. Upon rousing,
Speaker 6: she felt an intense pain at the base of her neck.
Speaker 6: Two punctured wounds were present, and the surrounding skin was
Speaker 6: red and inflamed. Another friend, who accompanied her on the excursion,
Speaker 6: suffered a matching affliction. The pair originally attributed these injuries
Speaker 6: to a possible spider bite. Both Kathy and her travel
Speaker 6: companion became violently ill. In fact, she was so sick
Speaker 6: that she could not even muster the strength to pack
Speaker 6: her things. Her mind raised as she desperately tried to
Speaker 6: recall what happened hours ago. Only one thing surfaced, glowing
Speaker 6: red eyes. While she was drifting into slumber, she remembered
Speaker 6: seeing several creatures gazing through the darkness. At the time,
Speaker 6: she assumed they were produced by a herd of deer.
Speaker 6: Following this traumatizing outing, Cathy felt completely drained of her
Speaker 6: creativity and emotions. Several months would pass before she felt
Speaker 6: like her old self again. Admittedly, Grandma Cappy would have
Speaker 6: dismissed her episode had Little John not come forward with
Speaker 6: his first hand in counter. Now, listeners to this channel
Speaker 6: are no doubt familiar with the legends of lore pertaining
Speaker 6: to Mount Shasta that existed throughout the centuries. We've done
Speaker 6: a video about it. The indigenous peoples of the area
Speaker 6: chronicle the fallen race of prehistoric giants that were set
Speaker 6: to inhabit the region. Others claimed beings known as Lemerians
Speaker 6: used local caves as entrances to an underground crystalline city
Speaker 6: called Telos. Some allege a large energy vortex is is
Speaker 6: it within the territory. In modern times, there are many
Speaker 6: UFO and big Foot sightings reported each year. Though twenty
Speaker 6: six thousand visitors flocked to the Severed Mountain from countries
Speaker 6: across the globe, there have been an alarmingly high number
Speaker 6: of curious missing person cases within this picture Esquterraine by
Speaker 6: Little John Doe's incident seems unbelievable. It's important to consider
Speaker 6: the odd history and happenings afflicting this area. An open
Speaker 6: mind may be the only thing that we'll finally resolve
Speaker 6: this age old mystery. Well, folks, there you have it.
Speaker 6: What do you think of these cases? Make sure you
Speaker 6: let us know in the comments below. Also, if you
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Speaker 6: You're helping our channel and videos to get noticed by
Speaker 6: the YouTube algorithm. Till we meet again, take care of
Speaker 6: yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton and I'll tell
Speaker 6: to you next time. Hello friends, Steve Stockton here with you.
Speaker 6: Welcome to our latest episode. Join me, let's walk and see.
Speaker 6: The Pine Barns in New Jersey is the largest remaining
Speaker 6: example of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecosystem, stretching across
Speaker 6: more than seven counties of New Jersey. In the United States,
Speaker 6: the Pine Barons remained mostly rural and undisturbed despite its
Speaker 6: proximity to the sprawling metropolis of places like New York
Speaker 6: City and Philadelphia, and it's in the center of the
Speaker 6: very densely populated Boston Washington Corridor. Along the eastern seaboard.
Speaker 6: The heavily traveled Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City
Speaker 6: Expressway traverse sections of the Eastern and Southern Pine Barons, respectively.
Speaker 6: The protected wilderness covers more than one millionaire of land.
Speaker 6: The Pine Barons, or simply the Pines, as it's sometimes
Speaker 6: called locally, is also a place of much local legend
Speaker 6: and lore from alleged mob dumping sites to the Jersey
Speaker 6: Devil himself. There is so much mystery in this area
Speaker 6: of the Garden State, we could never know the truth
Speaker 6: of it all. In this episode, we're going to discuss
Speaker 6: one more mystery and long line of many at Midley,
Speaker 6: one that most people probably haven't heard of and may
Speaker 6: never be solved. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance and demise
Speaker 6: of a local couple to this area are very strange. Indeed,
Speaker 6: here's what we know so far. Here's the story of
Speaker 6: the strange and suspicious disappearance and demise of Gary and
Speaker 6: Lorraine Parker. On November twenty third, twenty twenty one, Gary
Speaker 6: Lorraine Parker's daughter sent out a Facebook message and notified
Speaker 6: the local authorities that our parents were missing. The couple
Speaker 6: were residents of Warren Grove, which is a small unincorporated
Speaker 6: community located within the Bearns Scant thirty seven miles north
Speaker 6: of Atlantic City. It seems that Gary sixty seven and
Speaker 6: his wife, Lorraine sixty decided to take a trip on
Speaker 6: their all terrain vehicle into the Pine Bearings, which was
Speaker 6: located right near their home. This is something they did
Speaker 6: often and was not unusual in and of itself. What
Speaker 6: happened next, though, was very strange. Gary Lorraine's daughter Lindsay,
Speaker 6: posted on Facebook that her parents went missing at twelve
Speaker 6: forty one in the morning on the seventeenth. She later wrote,
Speaker 6: my parents quad has been found along with my father's
Speaker 6: shotgun which was strapped to it. Still no sign of
Speaker 6: either of my parents. Their quad was found stuck in
Speaker 6: a field not far from their home that my dad
Speaker 6: had used for years to bait deer. Trailcam footage has
Speaker 6: nothing after footage captured last week. Now, there was no
Speaker 6: exact date released as to when the couple actually went missing,
Speaker 6: aside from the fact that Lorraine was last seen on
Speaker 6: the seventeenth. Captain James Vaughan of the Stafford Police said
Speaker 6: he didn't believe the couple went hunting, noting that in
Speaker 6: the rural community many people have shotguns readily available. Captain
Speaker 6: Vaughan continued that even if the couple were out in
Speaker 6: the almost for a few nights, he was hopeful they
Speaker 6: could survive because they are both avid outdoors people. He said.
Speaker 6: When the two day search effort, which included more than
Speaker 6: one hundred searchers, police dogs ATVs drones and air support
Speaker 6: failed to find the couple. Stafford Police turned the search
Speaker 6: over to its detectives and the Ocean County Prosecutor's office.
Speaker 6: The couple's disappearances somewhat shilling and only lends to the
Speaker 6: terrifying mystique of the land itself within the pine bearings.
Speaker 6: The Stafford Police hadn't given up their search even though
Speaker 6: they had officially handed it over. It was the same
Speaker 6: drone that had been used previously in the searches that
Speaker 6: eventually found the couple. Captain Vaughan stated about to discovery
Speaker 6: the couple's bodies, the only way we were able to
Speaker 6: find them was by using a drone. He was describing
Speaker 6: the density of the woods in that area. We did
Speaker 6: have people in the area, but I can tell you
Speaker 6: it's the thickest part of the pine barons you're going
Speaker 6: to find. The couple's remains were found at around one
Speaker 6: pm the following Tuesday, after they had been reported missing
Speaker 6: by their daughter, Lindsey. Captain Vaughn himself had taken part
Speaker 6: in the grid search, and he said there were wooded
Speaker 6: areas there that were virtually impassable. He continued, there were
Speaker 6: times I couldn't see six inches in front of my face,
Speaker 6: and there were times I had to crawl underneath things
Speaker 6: to get through the brush. Again, without the use of
Speaker 6: the drone, it was nearly impossible. You could have walked
Speaker 6: by them and not seen them unless you were directly looking.
Speaker 6: It was very thick, very dense. The question still remains, though,
Speaker 6: what exactly were the couple doing in such a dense
Speaker 6: and virtually impassable part of the Pine Barons. They were
Speaker 6: found about two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards
Speaker 6: from their home, at about seventy yards from the ATV
Speaker 6: they're believed to have driven into the woods. The search
Speaker 6: party was estimated to have covered over a thousand acres,
Speaker 6: Captain Vaughn said, citing the New Jersey State Police Person's
Speaker 6: Unit now about a week earlier, and the details are
Speaker 6: a bit sketchy. Here a small amount of methamphetamine was
Speaker 6: found on the Parker's property. The law enforcement rate of
Speaker 6: a suspected drug lab approximately two miles away from the
Speaker 6: Parker residents fueled online sluice and conspiracy theorists alike everywhere.
Speaker 6: The speculation grew so widely out of hand that the
Speaker 6: Stafford Police felt compelled to write a statement in a
Speaker 6: news release regarding the investigation into the meth lab. It
Speaker 6: stated this investigation, meaning the lab raid, was not related
Speaker 6: to the missing person's investigation involving Gary and Lorraine Parker
Speaker 6: of Warren Grove. While authorities said they do not suspect
Speaker 6: foul play, they are being rather tight lipped as to
Speaker 6: what they do think occurred. They said they believe most
Speaker 6: likely scenario is that one of the pair had some
Speaker 6: sort of medical emergency and the other was unwilling to
Speaker 6: leave them to go for help. Now, there are plenty
Speaker 6: of flaws with this theory, though, How did they both
Speaker 6: end up dying? Then? Why were they in such a
Speaker 6: deep and dense, relatively unpassable part of the pine bearings.
Speaker 6: The couple would go out there often, remember and presumably
Speaker 6: knew which areas were for hiking and writing, walking and
Speaker 6: recreation and which areas clearly weren't. Why they left their
Speaker 6: ATV in the first place, and why leave the shotgun
Speaker 6: strapped to the ATV? The police stated in their initial
Speaker 6: report upon finding the off road vehicle that it didn't
Speaker 6: seem as though it had crashed and wasn't damaged in
Speaker 6: any way. This as with everything else, only lends more
Speaker 6: mystery to this already very strange case. If they didn't
Speaker 6: have an accident, then why leave the vehicle at all.
Speaker 6: Gary and Lorraine were found lying together some distance from
Speaker 6: their ATV, though the injuries weren't listed or relayed to
Speaker 6: the public anyway, it was reported that they were heavily
Speaker 6: injured from sharp vegetation. In the underbrush of this implausible mystery,
Speaker 6: Captain James Bond stated, I don't think we're ever going
Speaker 6: to know. I mean, there wasn't an ATV crash per se,
Speaker 6: but why they got off and why they ended up
Speaker 6: in the thicket the way they did that far from
Speaker 6: their house, We're never going to know. And there you
Speaker 6: have it. I look forward to reading your opinions on
Speaker 6: this case, but please remain respectful of the victims, victims families,
Speaker 6: and the opinions of others. Be good to yourselves and
Speaker 6: each other. I'll see you a little farther on down
Speaker 6: the road. I'm Steve Starkon and I'll talk to you
Speaker 6: next time.
Speaker 2: Annette Swanson is joining us. She is the mother of
Speaker 2: Brandon Swanson, joining us from Minnesota. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for joining us from Marshall, Minnesota. Actually, first of all,
Speaker 2: I want to ask you, miss Swanson, you were on
Speaker 2: the phone with your son a large part of those
Speaker 2: early hours when you were trying to find him and
Speaker 2: he was trying to find you. He wasn't hurt at all, right,
Speaker 2: I mean the car went into a ditch, but he
Speaker 2: seemed to be okay.
Speaker 9: Correct, He said he was fine, that he was not injured.
Speaker 9: And you know, in fact, when we did find his vehicle,
Speaker 9: there was no damage to it. It was simply muddy
Speaker 9: from being on a gravel road, but no damage to
Speaker 9: the vehicle.
Speaker 2: What was it like that night to be going through
Speaker 2: this and so close to your son, but so far
Speaker 2: from your son?
Speaker 9: Yeah, you knows. As you know, as Brandon tried to
Speaker 9: explain to us where his location was, and he was
Speaker 9: extremely sure of himself. He felt confident in where he
Speaker 9: was at and that we were the ones that were
Speaker 9: confused about, you know, how to get to him. And
Speaker 9: as the convert station went on, as the minutes ticked by,
Speaker 9: you know, it came to a point where it's as
Speaker 9: long as Brandon was on the phone, as long as
Speaker 9: he was talking, as long as we had contact, it
Speaker 9: was okay. We would be okay. But the minute that
Speaker 9: he that that call dropped, I just became sick. I
Speaker 9: knew it was wrong. I knew it was very, very bad,
Speaker 9: and just could hardly fathom, you know, what was happening
Speaker 9: at that point.
Speaker 2: Well I can imagine, I mean to take a breath now,
Speaker 2: when the call just hung up like that with Brandon
Speaker 2: in dire distress. I mean, those were the words that
Speaker 2: he seemed to utter when he said, Oh, oh, did
Speaker 2: you try to call.
Speaker 6: Him after that?
Speaker 12: And what happened?
Speaker 9: Oh? Yes, we did, you know, we we didn't immediately
Speaker 9: hang up the phone. We you know, we called his name.
Speaker 9: We tried to you know, thinking that he still had
Speaker 9: the phone, that it was very near him, that he
Speaker 9: could pick it up. We'd he'd hear our voice, and
Speaker 9: we called out to him several times, and we realized,
Speaker 9: you know, he's he's not there, So we did We
Speaker 9: called him back several times, thinking, you know, he'll he'll
Speaker 9: see the phone light up, even if he didn't have
Speaker 9: it on ring, he would see his phone light up
Speaker 9: when the call came in and he'd find it, you know,
Speaker 9: he'd answer the call. And it just didn't happen. Time
Speaker 9: and again just it just went unanswered.
Speaker 6: Hello friends, Steve Stockton here with you in this video
Speaker 6: we bring you the strange case of Brandon Swanson. On
Speaker 6: the night of May thirteenth, two thousand and eight, nineteen
Speaker 6: year old Brandon Swanson from Marshall, Minnesota, went out with
Speaker 6: some friends to have a few drinks and some fun.
Speaker 6: It was a Tuesday night, but Brandon had just completed
Speaker 6: his first year of Minnesota West Community Technical College that day,
Speaker 6: so he and his friends went to the nearby town
Speaker 6: of Lynn to hang out and celebrate. Between ten thirty
Speaker 6: and eleven PM, Brandon left the friends he originally set
Speaker 6: out with and drove to another friend's house in Camby
Speaker 6: to say goodbye to yet another friend. His friends who
Speaker 6: were with him and Lynn said that when he got
Speaker 6: into his car to make the short drive he wasn't intoxicated,
Speaker 6: and other witnesses who saw him that night all agreed
Speaker 6: he was not by any means intoxicated when he arrived
Speaker 6: at the friend's house either. They said he had one
Speaker 6: shot of whiskey and then left some time after midnight
Speaker 6: to head back to Marshall. Presumably he was head at
Speaker 6: home at that point. The director route from Camby to
Speaker 6: Marshall is a thirty minute drive on Highway sixty eight. Technically,
Speaker 6: the next day, on May fourteenth, at around one thirty
Speaker 6: in the morning, Brandon got his car stuck in a
Speaker 6: ditch along the gravel road. He tried calling multiple friends
Speaker 6: for help, but unfortunately no one answered the calls and
Speaker 6: Brandon remained stuck on the side of the road. One
Speaker 6: fifty four am. Brandon called his parents and told him
Speaker 6: who he was and what had happened, and asked if
Speaker 6: they could come and get him as he needed a
Speaker 6: ride home. His parents, Annette and Brian Swanson, agreed to
Speaker 6: come and pick him up and ask where he was
Speaker 6: so they knew where to go to find him. He
Speaker 6: told them he was between Marshall and Lynn, and he
Speaker 6: assured them he wasn't injured at all, but just wanted
Speaker 6: to get home. When his parents arrived at the location
Speaker 6: Brandon had given them, he wasn't there and was nowhere
Speaker 6: in sight. His mother called him on his cell phone
Speaker 6: and the two decided to start flashing their lights to
Speaker 6: alert the other of where they were. They all assumed
Speaker 6: at this point that they must have been very close
Speaker 6: to one another but were just missing the other somehow
Speaker 6: Annette could hear her son flashing his lights, and she
Speaker 6: informed him she was doing the same. She told him,
Speaker 6: we're flashing our lights. We're flashing our lights, to which
Speaker 6: Brandon replied, don't you see me. Both Annette and Brandon
Speaker 6: were very frustrated at this point, and Brandon ended up
Speaker 6: hanging up on his mother. She immediately called him back
Speaker 6: with the intention of apologizing to him for getting worked
Speaker 6: up a bit herself. Brandon answered and told his mother
Speaker 6: that he could see the town's lights referring to Lynn,
Speaker 6: and that he was just going to start walking in
Speaker 6: the direction of town. He told her to just meet
Speaker 6: him in the parking lot of a local tavern in
Speaker 6: the town of Lynn. She agreed to meet him there.
Speaker 6: As his parents drove to the tavern, they maintained contact
Speaker 6: with Brandon, with Brian staying on the phone with him.
Speaker 6: Brandon told his father he was going to cut through
Speaker 6: some fields to take a kind of shortcut and save
Speaker 6: some time on his trip. Since he was walking along
Speaker 6: the way, Brandon was telling his father over the phone
Speaker 6: what he was seeing and passing. He walked on gravel roads,
Speaker 6: saw two fence lines, and heard running water about forty
Speaker 6: seven minutes into the call, Brandon yelled, and then the
Speaker 6: call disconnected. Brian Swanson later said it sounded as though
Speaker 6: his son had fallen down or possibly slipped. Brian Annanette
Speaker 6: tried repeatedly to call Brandon back, but he never answered
Speaker 6: the phone again. It would just ring and ring until
Speaker 6: sometime the next day, when the call started going straight
Speaker 6: to voicemail and it was assumed that the phone had died.
Speaker 6: Brandon Swanson hasn't been seen or heard from since the
Speaker 6: end of that faithful call with his father that night.
Speaker 6: That same morning, May fourteenth, two thousand and eight, Brandon's
Speaker 6: parents called the police to report him as missing. As
Speaker 6: it's usually the case, the police didn't take the call
Speaker 6: very seriously, insisted that they wait a little while, as
Speaker 6: it wasn't unusual for young men Brandon's age to go
Speaker 6: missing voluntarily for a bit without telling their parents. Later
Speaker 6: on in the day, cell phone records for Brandon's phone
Speaker 6: were retrieved, and they showed his last things were from
Speaker 6: near Porter, Minnesota, which is about twenty five miles away
Speaker 6: from where he seemed to have thought he was in Lynn.
Speaker 6: There's no way the town he saw was Lynn. Shortly
Speaker 6: before noon. The authorities began their official search for Brandon.
Speaker 6: At around twelve thirty pm, his vehicle, a Chevrolet Lumina,
Speaker 6: was found in a ditch bordering the towns of Lincoln
Speaker 6: and Yellow Medicine. Lacoy County Sheriff Jack Mazeki stated that
Speaker 6: the ditch was positioned where Brandon wouldn't have been able
Speaker 6: to gain any traction to be able to drive himself
Speaker 6: out of it. There was no visible damage to the
Speaker 6: vehicle and no signs of foul play or injury at
Speaker 6: the scene. In the months following his disappearance, law enforcement
Speaker 6: conducted searches on horseback, using ATVs and even foot searchers,
Speaker 6: but to no avail. They even utilized sniffer dogs and
Speaker 6: searched around and near several bodies of water. The dogs
Speaker 6: ended up leading their handlers to the edge of the
Speaker 6: Yellow Medicine River, which led authorities to come to the
Speaker 6: conclusion that Brandon had somehow fallen into the water. This
Speaker 6: led them to conduct extensive searches in the river, but
Speaker 6: they came up empty every time. Because of this, they
Speaker 6: then concluded that if Brandon did indeed fall into the water,
Speaker 6: he must have made his way back out of it
Speaker 6: at some point and didn't drown. They believed he just
Speaker 6: got himself out of the river and continued on his
Speaker 6: way walking. Their conclusion then was that he must have
Speaker 6: died of hypothermia due to the temperature dropping below forty
Speaker 6: degrees on the night that he went missing. Search dogs
Speaker 6: also alerted to human remains being near Mud Creek. However,
Speaker 6: authorities never found any remains at all in this area,
Speaker 6: let alone Brandon's. Authorities believed Brandon could have been anywhere
Speaker 6: within one hundred and twenty two square mile radius of
Speaker 6: the river ten years after he seemingly disappeared into thin
Speaker 6: air the Yellow Medicine County Sheriff Bill flood Instead. It's
Speaker 6: a huge area if you take that immediate area where
Speaker 6: the car was and in the timeframe when he was
Speaker 6: talking on the phone with his parents. Who knows what
Speaker 6: direction he went and how far he traveled. A volunteer
Speaker 6: firefighter named Darren E. Delzer came up with his own
Speaker 6: theory as to what could have happened to Brandon. He
Speaker 6: took everything he had learned about the case and put
Speaker 6: it all together. He noted that Brandon always wore glasses
Speaker 6: because he was legally blind in his left eye. However,
Speaker 6: on the morning he went missing, he'd left his glasses
Speaker 6: in his car. Based on Darren's theory, we could assume
Speaker 6: Brandon also left him in his car when he left
Speaker 6: in the ditch to start walking to go and meet
Speaker 6: his parents, and therefore wasn't wearing them the whole time
Speaker 6: he was on the phone with his folks that night.
Speaker 6: He made a note of the fact that right before
Speaker 6: Brandon said oh shit and possibly slipped when the phone
Speaker 6: disconnected for the final time, he also said, not another fence.
Speaker 6: He concluded that Brandon must have fallen into an unmarked
Speaker 6: well or system, which are very common in rural areas
Speaker 6: like the ones where Brandon went missing. There are theories
Speaker 6: such as Brandon simply left on purpose and orchestrated the
Speaker 6: whole disappearance. This theory alleges he is living under an
Speaker 6: assumed identity somewhere. Most people don't give this theory much credit,
Speaker 6: as if you remember Brandon was calling his parents and
Speaker 6: several friends that night trying to find someone to help him,
Speaker 6: it makes more sense he really was trying to get
Speaker 6: help that night, and not trying to purposely disappear. Theories
Speaker 6: of Brandon suffering some kind of nervous or mental breakdown
Speaker 6: also don't hold much water, as his parents say he
Speaker 6: was loocid while on the phone with him, and also
Speaker 6: that he had no history of any kind of mental illness.
Speaker 6: The initial theory that he had drowned and the theory
Speaker 6: that followed stating that he may have made it back
Speaker 6: out of the water and then died of hypothermia has
Speaker 6: been highly criticized as well. His phone was working for
Speaker 6: quite a while after the call with his father disconnected.
Speaker 6: It's been said that if the phone had entered the water,
Speaker 6: which it presumably would have since Brian was holding it
Speaker 6: when this theory states he went into the water, it
Speaker 6: would have immediately started going to boyshmail right away, as
Speaker 6: it wasn't waterproof and would have been immediately broken. Sure,
Speaker 6: some people count of that by saying that the phone
Speaker 6: could have fallen onto the ground when Brandon slipped into
Speaker 6: the water. But if that was the case, then why
Speaker 6: was the phone never found? Remember, there were extensive searches
Speaker 6: in and around all bodies of water in a large
Speaker 6: area surrounding where Brandon's car was found and where he
Speaker 6: alleged he was the night he went missing, so it's
Speaker 6: safe to assume here that the phone would have been
Speaker 6: found at some point. It simply wasn't. All of the
Speaker 6: abandoned buildings in the area were also searched, and no
Speaker 6: human remains and none of Brandon's personal facts were found
Speaker 6: in any of them. This discredits the theory that Brandon
Speaker 6: might have sought refuge and shelter in one of them
Speaker 6: and died some other way while inside. Yet another theory
Speaker 6: is that perhaps Brandon was involved in a hit and
Speaker 6: run or otherwise abducted, and that his remains were disposed
Speaker 6: of by the perpetrators. However, there's no evidence at all
Speaker 6: to prove this theory or that foul play was involved
Speaker 6: in any way in Brandon's case. Brandon's parents believed their
Speaker 6: son's disappearance might have been solved had police immediately started
Speaker 6: investigating instead of telling them to wait it out for
Speaker 6: a while. There's no law that says there needs to
Speaker 6: be a waiting period for someone to be able to
Speaker 6: be reported as missing. However, unofficially, of course, priority is
Speaker 6: usually given to cases where a foul play is obvious,
Speaker 6: where people are mentally or physically impaired, and when younger
Speaker 6: children are involved. A missing eighteen year old who disappeared
Speaker 6: after a night out drinking with some friends just didn't
Speaker 6: seem too important to the police until hours after the fact,
Speaker 6: and so much precious time had been wasted. Annada and
Speaker 6: Brian Swanson proposed in law be written up in their
Speaker 6: son's name, Brandon's Law, which would quote require law enforcement
Speaker 6: to take a missing person's report without delay after notification
Speaker 6: of someone missing under dangerous circumstances, no matter the missing
Speaker 6: person's age, immediately conduct a preliminary investigation to determine if
Speaker 6: the person is missing and whether the person is in danger,
Speaker 6: and promptly notify all other law enforcement agencies of the situation.
Speaker 6: Brandon's Law, which was sponsored by former House Minority Leader
Speaker 6: Marty Seifert and Senator Dennis Frederickson, was signed into law
Speaker 6: by Minnesota's then Governor Tim Any on May seventh, two
Speaker 6: thousand and nine. The law officially went into effect on
Speaker 6: July first, two thousand and nine. This still leaves one
Speaker 6: very big question, though, what happened to Brandon Swanson. How
Speaker 6: could he have been so off about where he was
Speaker 6: when he was telling his parents he was near Lynn
Speaker 6: and they were flashing their lights at each other but
Speaker 6: not seeing one another. What led him to yell the
Speaker 6: expletive into the phone and hang up? Why wasn't his
Speaker 6: phone or any of his other belongings ever found. There
Speaker 6: has literally been no trace of him since the last
Speaker 6: time he was heard shouting into the phone that faithful night.
Speaker 6: These are all questions we may never know the answers to,
Speaker 6: but that doesn't ever mean we should stop asking the
Speaker 6: hard questions. As always, our hearts, prayers, and thoughts go
Speaker 6: out to the loved ones of not only Brandon Swanson,
Speaker 6: but the countless others who similarly vanished off the face
Speaker 6: of this earth without a trace. Well, folks, there you
Speaker 6: have it. What do you think of this on new disappearance?
Speaker 6: I look forward to your comments, but please keep it
Speaker 6: friendly in your space. Meanwhile, be good to yourselves and
Speaker 6: each other. I'll see you just a little farther on
Speaker 6: down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to
Speaker 6: you next time.
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Speaker 6: Stay outside and send forth Listen d Inch case of
Speaker 6: Jessica Boynton. At the time of this incident, Jessica Boynton
Speaker 6: was nineteen years old and living with her husband, matt
Speaker 6: and their two small children, Tolland and Tyler, in the
Speaker 6: town of Griffin, Georgia. Jessica and matt were high school
Speaker 6: sweethearts who met in twenty twelve, almost immediately after the
Speaker 6: birth of their first son, Tlan. The couple married on
Speaker 6: October twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, when Tolland was about a
Speaker 6: year and a half old. The family welcomed another baby boy,
Speaker 6: who they named Tyler. Not long after this, Matthew became
Speaker 6: a Griffin police officer, and the couple settled into a
Speaker 6: new three bedroom apartment in a complex where Jessica quickly
Speaker 6: made friends with many of their neighbors. Although most of
Speaker 6: the couple's family and friends would go on to say
Speaker 6: they thought the pair had an ideal relationship, most of
Speaker 6: the neighbors who shared walls with the couple, and some
Speaker 6: who had gotten to know Jessica fairly well, told a
Speaker 6: different story. According to Jessica's close friend, who also happened
Speaker 6: to be the woman who lived below them, the couple
Speaker 6: fought all the time. This woman would later tell police
Speaker 6: that Jessica kept a secret diary which she hid in
Speaker 6: her closet, that documented all of Matthew's transgressions, such as
Speaker 6: the affair he was having with a dispatcher for the
Speaker 6: Spaulding County Police, and also how he would take the
Speaker 6: two children and disappear for days and sometimes weeks at
Speaker 6: a time and not answer or return any of Jessica's
Speaker 6: calls or text messages. According to those closest to her,
Speaker 6: Jessica was relieved to have finally been able to prove
Speaker 6: matt was having an affair because now she felt she
Speaker 6: could file for divorce and give full physical custody of
Speaker 6: the children. Matthew actually agreed with Jessica that they should
Speaker 6: divorce and both move on with their lives, and while
Speaker 6: they waited to start the divorce proceedings, the couple remained
Speaker 6: living together in the three bedroom apartment. Things were very
Speaker 6: amicable in the beginning. However, this didn't last long. The
Speaker 6: whole process of going through a separation while still living
Speaker 6: with the other person and trying to copare it while
Speaker 6: under the same roof caused tremendous strain on the family
Speaker 6: and things soon took a very dark turn. While Jessica
Speaker 6: continued secretly documenting everything in her notebook she had hidden
Speaker 6: in the closet of the master bedroom, Matthew began complaining
Speaker 6: to his friend's family and even co workers that Jessica
Speaker 6: had become physically violent towards him. He told him that
Speaker 6: she would poke him in the chest and slap him,
Speaker 6: and that he didn't want to live under the same
Speaker 6: roof with her anymore. With the future of herself and
Speaker 6: her two sons in mind, Jessica went and got herself
Speaker 6: a job at a doctor's office. Her official job title
Speaker 6: is unknown, as she never made it to her first
Speaker 6: day of work on April fifteenth, twenty sixteen. Just the
Speaker 6: day before, on April fourteenth, twenty sixteen, Jessica and Matthew
Speaker 6: had a huge argument. Here's a timeline of events for
Speaker 6: that night and the early morning hours of the next
Speaker 6: day leading up to and immediately after the incident in question.
Speaker 6: At around nine pm on April fifteenth, Matthew called his
Speaker 6: lieutenant on a personal phone call and told him that
Speaker 6: Chessca was once again physically abusing him by poking him
Speaker 6: in the chest and slapping him about his body and face.
Speaker 6: While Matthew was on the phone with a superior, Jessica
Speaker 6: brought her kids over to her downstairs neighbors and now
Speaker 6: close friend's house. According to this neighbor, Jessica was extremely
Speaker 6: upset and was just trying to get some space between
Speaker 6: her and Matthew at this time. After being there just
Speaker 6: a few minutes, Matthew began to text Jessica and asked
Speaker 6: if she and the boys would come to Walmart with him,
Speaker 6: as the youngest child needed formula and Matthew wasn't sure
Speaker 6: which kind of buye. After receiving multiple texts from Matthew
Speaker 6: in just a few short minutes, Jessica reluctantly agreed to
Speaker 6: go to the Walmart with him to pick up the formula.
Speaker 6: Before Jessica left, though, she told her neighbor that when
Speaker 6: they returned from Walmart, she and the boys would be
Speaker 6: coming back to spend the night. Jessica was supposed to
Speaker 6: start her new job early the next morning and was
Speaker 6: afraid to be up all night upset and arguing with
Speaker 6: their soon to be ex husband. At ten point fifteen pm,
Speaker 6: surveillance cameras at the Walmart show the family arriving together
Speaker 6: and walking into the store. Video footage from the store
Speaker 6: also shows the couple having some kind of argument in
Speaker 6: the baby formula aisle, which led to Jessica's storming out
Speaker 6: at around ten thirty pm, but since there is no audio,
Speaker 6: we are unsure what the argument was all about. While
Speaker 6: Jessica was storming out of the store, Matthew was making
Speaker 6: a phone call to one of his co workers and
Speaker 6: informing them that Jessica had stormed out and was refusing
Speaker 6: to go home in the same vehicle as he and
Speaker 6: the children. About ten minutes later, however, Jessica does re
Speaker 6: enter the store, and the couple and their two children
Speaker 6: are all seen leaving the store together in the family's vehicle.
Speaker 6: They arrived home a couple of minutes before eleven PM,
Speaker 6: with a trip taking about forty five minutes to an
Speaker 6: hour in total. According to the reports from that night,
Speaker 6: at around ten fifty three PM, while Jessica's supposedly inside
Speaker 6: her walking closet trying to find the right outfit to
Speaker 6: wear to a first date or a new job. The
Speaker 6: next morning, an officer responded to a non emergency call
Speaker 6: at the Boynton residence. Apparently Matthew had called the police
Speaker 6: and reported that Jessica was poking him in the chest
Speaker 6: and physically assaulting him again. Responding officer's name was Trammel,
Speaker 6: and his report from that night contains what Matthew had
Speaker 6: said happened up until that point. According to Matthew, right
Speaker 6: before the Walmart trip, he was on his cell phone
Speaker 6: when Jessica stormed in and grabbed his phone. She was
Speaker 6: accusing him of having an affair. Jessica started slapping and
Speaker 6: poking Matthew in the chest while insisting he admit to
Speaker 6: the affair if he wanted his phone back. Jessica refused
Speaker 6: to give the phone back until he admitted to the affair,
Speaker 6: and so he did, with Jessica storming out of the
Speaker 6: house at that point and going to the neighbors. The
Speaker 6: second incident Matthew reported that night that happened was at
Speaker 6: the Walmart. He told officer Trammel that while in the store,
Speaker 6: he had received a text message, which once again made
Speaker 6: Jessica flying to her rage and storm out of the store,
Speaker 6: refusing to leave with him and their two sons. Matthew
Speaker 6: also reported that he didn't know how Jessica had gotten
Speaker 6: home because she had never come back in after storming
Speaker 6: out of the world, leaving him no choice but to
Speaker 6: pay for the formula and take the children home. While
Speaker 6: leaving her there, Officer Trammel took Matthew's report and left,
Speaker 6: never entering the house or attempting to speak with Jessica
Speaker 6: at all. Now you will note that this information is
Speaker 6: contrary to what the Walmart surveillance footage shows. At twelve
Speaker 6: fifty am the following morning, Matthew began testing his best
Speaker 6: friend and fellow officer, Josh Guthrie. The two men decided
Speaker 6: to go for some food and to talk at the
Speaker 6: nearby waffle house, just four miles away from the boy
Speaker 6: in residence. According to Matthew, right before he left to
Speaker 6: meet Guthrie, Jessica told him to call an ambulance before
Speaker 6: he left. When he repeated last why she would need
Speaker 6: an ambulance, he claims, Jessica refused to answer, eventually just
Speaker 6: slamming the front door in his face. According to cell
Speaker 6: phone records, throughout this entire night, Matthew was texting his mistress.
Speaker 6: In fact, they showed he had texted his mistress sixty
Speaker 6: eight times throughout the course of that night. At twelve
Speaker 6: fifty four am, Matthew's cell phone received a text message
Speaker 6: from Jessica's phone stating, I can't do this anymore. Take
Speaker 6: care of Toland and Tyler. Please tell them I love
Speaker 6: them every day. I've been suffering for a while now
Speaker 6: and no one has noticed here. Lately, I have not
Speaker 6: been able to recognize the person I see in the mirror.
Speaker 6: This is not the first time I've had thoughts. I
Speaker 6: love you and the boys. Instead of responding to Jessica,
Speaker 6: Matthew first sends a text to his ministress, saying, haha,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, I didn't think about that. At twelve fifty
Speaker 6: five am, Matthew dials nine to one one and requests ems.
Speaker 6: He tells the dispatcher that he is worried about his
Speaker 6: wife and a text he'd received from her, and that
Speaker 6: he is driving home at ninety miles an hour. While
Speaker 6: on the phone with him, and says he will be
Speaker 6: home in about two minutes. He explains that his wife
Speaker 6: is having thoughts and tells her about the message he
Speaker 6: had received from Jessica's phone just a minute or so before.
Speaker 6: He also explains that Jessica's alone in the house with
Speaker 6: their two small children and he is rushing home just
Speaker 6: to make sure nothing is going to happen to them.
Speaker 6: The dispatcher asked if there are any weapons in the home,
Speaker 6: and Matthew tells her that his service weapon is the
Speaker 6: only one.
Speaker 13: Can you please dispatch your unit out in my location?
Speaker 13: Form a reference to my wife. I left the location.
Speaker 13: I'm backing around on Carver Road now. I'll be back
Speaker 13: there in about two minutes. She's having faults. My kids
Speaker 13: are at home with her, so I'm trying to hurry
Speaker 13: up and get back there. I'm driving. She just said
Speaker 13: that she's been experiencing faults right now. She told me
Speaker 13: to take care of the boys, So I'm trying to
Speaker 13: hurry up and get back home, just to make sure
Speaker 13: that nothing's going to happen to them. Any weapon inside
Speaker 13: the house, just my service weapons.
Speaker 6: Around four or five minutes after hanging up with nine
Speaker 6: to one one and arriving back at his residence, Matthew
Speaker 6: again texas mistress and says, give me a few to
Speaker 6: text back. Long story, I'll tell you later. Matthew reported
Speaker 6: that he immediately ran into the home and directly to
Speaker 6: the master where he noticed the closet door was closed
Speaker 6: and locked and Jessica was nowhere in sight. He says
Speaker 6: he started trying to bust the closet door open or
Speaker 6: even kick it down, but with no luck, all the
Speaker 6: while screaming Jessica's name and getting no response. After trying
Speaker 6: and failing at his attempts to get the closet door open,
Speaker 6: Matthew ran into the kitchen and grabbed his police radio
Speaker 6: and called for help. He said, quote, I believe I
Speaker 6: just heard a shot fired coming into my residence. I
Speaker 6: just came up the stairs two rounds, he advised, I
Speaker 6: smelled gun smoke and can't get an answer to the door. Unquote,
Speaker 6: I just heard a soft fire coming to my resident.
Speaker 7: I just came up with series two rounds.
Speaker 12: The avosite a smoke.
Speaker 6: Gunsmoked, and I can't get answer to the door. Stay outside,
Speaker 6: said forth. According to the official reports, multiple officers arrived
Speaker 6: unseen at the boy and home within seconds and began
Speaker 6: making their way inside. The officers reported hearing eight months
Speaker 6: old Tyler crying and seeing two year old Tolans still
Speaker 6: fast asleep. They approached the locked closet door and started
Speaker 6: yelling Jessica's name, but also received no answer. Then they
Speaker 6: kicked the closet door in and found Jessica Boyington lying
Speaker 6: on the floor with her long blonde hair drenched in
Speaker 6: blood to the point that the color was unrecognizable. There
Speaker 6: was a pillow with a large bloodstain on it underneath
Speaker 6: her head. Her husband's forty calval glock service weapon was
Speaker 6: underneath her body. As the officers were going through the
Speaker 6: closet in search of evidence and just examining the scene,
Speaker 6: they were completely shocked to see Jessica moving. She was
Speaker 6: still breathing and alive. Jessica was not only alert enough
Speaker 6: to try and fend off certain officers who were trying
Speaker 6: to help get her out of the closet and onto
Speaker 6: the floor where EMTs could work on her, she also
Speaker 6: had the strength to somehow reach up and grab one
Speaker 6: of the EMT's hands while he felt for her pulse
Speaker 6: what was thought at first to be due to the
Speaker 6: amount of blood in Jessica's hair. Neither the EMT nor
Speaker 6: the police were able to find the gunshot wound in
Speaker 6: Jessica's head ceeded to load her into the ambulance so
Speaker 6: she could be rushed to the nearest hospital for treatment.
Speaker 6: The police found two bullet holes in the closet while
Speaker 6: forensics evaluated the crime scene in the closet. Later on,
Speaker 6: they determined the trajectory of the bullets to be one
Speaker 6: going up with at a fifty four degree angle and
Speaker 6: one going upward at a twenty five degree angle. It
Speaker 6: was also determined that each bullet hole was found in
Speaker 6: a different wall of the closet. At one thirteen am,
Speaker 6: Spalding County Sheriff Wendelbeam was notified of the situation by dispatch.
Speaker 6: Wendell was not only the county sheriff, but also Matthew
Speaker 6: Boyton's grandfather. Immediately after notifying Sheriff Beam, the Georgia Bureau
Speaker 6: of Investigation or GBI, was also notified and asked to
Speaker 6: assist in investigating this case, which was already being called
Speaker 6: an attempt. At around four am, the investigator started canvassing
Speaker 6: the neighborhood for potential witnesses. They started with the other
Speaker 6: people in the apartment complex. Math and Jessica were living
Speaker 6: in the downstairs neighbor and Jessica's close friend informed the
Speaker 6: officers of a few things. Well. The first things either
Speaker 6: she told them was Jessica was not now, nor had
Speaker 6: she ever been. She told him about Matthew's affair with
Speaker 6: his coworker, the dispatcher, and she even told them an
Speaker 6: interesting story about something that had happened just a couple
Speaker 6: of days earlier. The neighbor told the police that a
Speaker 6: couple of nights earlier, Jessica had actually called the police
Speaker 6: on Matthew and reported that he had taken off once
Speaker 6: again with the couple's two young children and was not
Speaker 6: answering calls or returning text messages, and Jessica was extremely worried.
Speaker 6: Matthew ended up returning home before the police could even
Speaker 6: start an investigation, though, as he had been tipped off
Speaker 6: by his mistress dispatcher messaging him through Facebook and warning
Speaker 6: him that he should head home immediately because Jessica had
Speaker 6: just called and reported that he had taken the children
Speaker 6: without her knowledge. She also told the investigators where they
Speaker 6: could find Jessica's secret notebook containing all of Matthew's indiscretions
Speaker 6: and everything going wrong in the relationship that Jessica had
Speaker 6: been documenting for over a year at that point, the
Speaker 6: couple's pending divorce, and the fact that Jessica had an
Speaker 6: appointment to see a divorce lawyer and officially file. The
Speaker 6: following Monday was also called to their attention by several
Speaker 6: other neighbors as well. Some neighbors also reported hearing a
Speaker 6: single gunshot coming from the Boyton residence at around ten
Speaker 6: forty five PM, which would have been almost immediately after
Speaker 6: the couple had returned home from their Walmart trip, right
Speaker 6: about the same time when Officer Trammell was called out
Speaker 6: to interview Matthew about his non emergency call to report
Speaker 6: Jessica physically abusing him and him having to leave her
Speaker 6: at the Walmart as she stormed off and refused to
Speaker 6: return home with the family, which, if you'll remember, was
Speaker 6: not in alignment with the surveillance video from Walmart parking lot,
Speaker 6: which shows the entire family just concluded, all getting into
Speaker 6: the family vehicle and driving off together. Later that same morning,
Speaker 6: Matthew Boyden was interviewed by his coworkers at the griff
Speaker 6: And Police Department in the GBI. Immediately admitted to having
Speaker 6: an affair, but claimed that Jessica had had affairs too.
Speaker 6: Matthew even went so far as to tell investigators that
Speaker 6: the couple's youngest son, Tyler, wasn't his and was in
Speaker 6: fact a product of one of these alleged affairs Jessica
Speaker 6: had had on him. He reiterated that Jessica was physically
Speaker 6: abusive towards him, and admitted that they both were looking
Speaker 6: forward to the divorce being finalized and moving on with
Speaker 6: their lives. The GBI agent interviewing him asked if he
Speaker 6: had changed his clothes from the time he'd called police
Speaker 6: to his house earlier in the nine one one call
Speaker 6: to when he was currently being interviewed, and Matthew claimed
Speaker 6: that he had. This too, is incorrect, as the Walmart
Speaker 6: footage of the couple Matthews seen very clearly wearing a
Speaker 6: gray sweater, and on the police bodycam footage of when
Speaker 6: they first showed up to the house after Matthew's nine
Speaker 6: one one call, he's wearing a bright red sweatshirt or hoodie.
Speaker 6: Matthew informed the investigators that he had been careful not
Speaker 6: to change his clothes or wash his hands, as being
Speaker 6: a police officer himself, he knew his clothes and hands
Speaker 6: would be swabbed for gunshot resident. When the agent informed
Speaker 6: Matthew that they would be taking his clothes from him
Speaker 6: so they could run some tests on them, Matthew responded
Speaker 6: with okay, that's fine. Absolutely, I didn't try to brush
Speaker 6: off anything. I didn't try to wash off anything because
Speaker 6: I knew GSR and all that would be involved. While
Speaker 6: Matthew was being interviewed, police back at the house were
Speaker 6: starting to process the scene. They started with a theory
Speaker 6: that Jessica had entered the closet and locked it, and,
Speaker 6: while facing the back wall, took Matthew's Service revolver and
Speaker 6: fired it upon herself. This was a shot they found
Speaker 6: that entered the top left portion of the closet wall.
Speaker 6: The second shot, however, was much more confusing and hard
Speaker 6: for the investigators to explain. This bullet had entered the
Speaker 6: back wall of the closet, and based on the trajectory,
Speaker 6: the gun would either had to have been fired from
Speaker 6: the floor or very close to it in order for
Speaker 6: the bullet to have ended up where it did. Forensic
Speaker 6: analysis later on also discovered that the first shot Jessica
Speaker 6: had allegedly fired would have injured her enough she would
Speaker 6: have been rendered completely incapable of firing the second shot.
Speaker 6: Investigators also came across the diary Jessica's friends and neighbors
Speaker 6: had told them about. Although it wasn't hidden but in
Speaker 6: plain sight on a shelf on top of some clothes,
Speaker 6: and was missing a few pages that obviously had been
Speaker 6: torn out, but to this day have never been recovered.
Speaker 6: Further testing of Matthew's service weapon did find Jessica's DNA
Speaker 6: on it, but neither her hands nor Matthews were ever
Speaker 6: swaveed for GSR analysis. Although Matthew's clothes were collected the
Speaker 6: morning he did his interview, they also were never analyzed
Speaker 6: for GSR or any other evidence at all. Another interesting
Speaker 6: bit of information forensics came across while examining the crime
Speaker 6: scene was that, aside from the large pool of blood
Speaker 6: on the pillow underneath Jessica's head, there was no other
Speaker 6: blood anywhere in or near the closet, including but not
Speaker 6: limited to, there not being any gunspatter at all that
Speaker 6: investigators would normally see on the walls, ceiling, impossibly floor
Speaker 6: or it would be found ninety nine percent of the
Speaker 6: time in the case of gunshot victims. The police recovered
Speaker 6: one bullet from the scene but couldn't find the second,
Speaker 6: so they just assumed it would be recovered later and
Speaker 6: was probably lodged either inside Jessica's skull or somewhere in
Speaker 6: her body. However, the doctor treating Jessica not only never
Speaker 6: found that bullet, but he concluded that Jessica had been
Speaker 6: the victim of blunt force trauma and wasn't shot at all,
Speaker 6: not in the head or anywhere else for that matter.
Speaker 6: He found no bullets, no bullet fragments, and her head
Speaker 6: wound wasn't consistent with a gunshot wound. This doctor had
Speaker 6: more than thirty years of experience in treating trauma patients,
Speaker 6: including victims of gunshot, and was highly respected in his
Speaker 6: field of expertise. Jessica had a severely fractured skull and
Speaker 6: would have had to have held the gun at a
Speaker 6: near impossible angle in order to even hit herself with
Speaker 6: the butt of it. It simply wasn't possible that Jessica
Speaker 6: had inflicted any of the wounds on herself. According to
Speaker 6: this doctor's report. Other evidence he found that was inconsistent
Speaker 6: with Jessica having fired a gun was her hands being
Speaker 6: in pristine condition, with no powder, birds or blood on
Speaker 6: her hands. Lastly, this doctor pointed out that there was
Speaker 6: no investigation done by the police or the GBI during
Speaker 6: Jessica's hospital stay. In fact, he stated that nobody had
Speaker 6: even reached out to him for his findings and examination
Speaker 6: report until July twentieth, three whole months after the incident
Speaker 6: took place. Due to severe swelling of the brain and trauma,
Speaker 6: Jessica was put in a medically induced coma for three
Speaker 6: weeks after initially arriving at the hospital. Family and friends,
Speaker 6: as well as hospital staff, thought it unlikely she would
Speaker 6: ever pull through due to the severity of her wounds.
Speaker 6: Matthew Boyden never once visited his wife during entire hospital stay.
Speaker 6: In fact, even while she was in her coma, Matthew
Speaker 6: was moving in with his mistress and removing Jessica's things
Speaker 6: without the knowledge of permission of obviously Jessica nor that
Speaker 6: of her family, from the couple's home where the incident
Speaker 6: had taken place. On May tenth, Jessica was out of
Speaker 6: her coma stable and ready to speak to investigators about
Speaker 6: what happened the night before and early morning hours of
Speaker 6: the incident. Due to the severe brain trauma and severity
Speaker 6: of her injuries, though Jessica can't recall most of what
Speaker 6: happened that night, here's the official report she allegedly gave
Speaker 6: to the Griffin police department or to its investigators in
Speaker 6: charge of her case. Jessica reported that she and Matthew
Speaker 6: had been arguing before going to Walmart about an explicit
Speaker 6: photo he had received from his mistress, and continued arguing
Speaker 6: during the drive there and also while in the Walmart,
Speaker 6: which is why she stormed out. She remembers arriving home
Speaker 6: from buying the baby formula, and while Matthew went directly
Speaker 6: to lay down in their bed, she realized she needed
Speaker 6: to go and take care of something at the apartment
Speaker 6: complex's main office. She had to use the fax machine there,
Speaker 6: and it was a pressing issue involving a medical bill
Speaker 6: for one of their children. It couldn't wait until the
Speaker 6: next morning. She asked Matthew to either drive her over
Speaker 6: to the office or watch the children while she drove
Speaker 6: herself so she didn't have to drag them inside with
Speaker 6: her and could just be in and out, as it
Speaker 6: was getting late and she had her first day of
Speaker 6: work early the following morning. Matthew refused to do either
Speaker 6: of these things, and after asking him three or four times,
Speaker 6: she packed the children in the car and went within
Speaker 6: the facts of the paperwork. This only took a few minutes.
Speaker 6: Upon returning to the house, Jessica put the children down
Speaker 6: for bed, and after arguing with Matthew about his deciding
Speaker 6: to go to the waffle house with his friend and
Speaker 6: co worker so late at night, she slammed the door
Speaker 6: in his face and he left. This is when she
Speaker 6: entered the walking closet to choose an outfit for her
Speaker 6: first day of work. This is all Jessica can remember
Speaker 6: from that night, and to this day, she has no
Speaker 6: recollection of anything that happened after this point. Jessica vehemently
Speaker 6: denies the fact that she was ever and also that
Speaker 6: she sent the seemingly text from her phone to Matthew's
Speaker 6: on the night in question. She believes Matthew grabbed her
Speaker 6: unlocked phone and sent the message from her phone to
Speaker 6: his himself. She stated that she was extremely happy to
Speaker 6: be getting the divorce and was actually relieved she had
Speaker 6: proved Matthew was having an affair and she could finally
Speaker 6: prove it because she felt this would help her to
Speaker 6: gain full custody the children in the divorce proceedings, which
Speaker 6: was her main goal. She also claims that she didn't
Speaker 6: even know how to remove Matthew's gun from its holster,
Speaker 6: let alone how to fire it. She knew this because
Speaker 6: one night Matthew had asked her to grab it for
Speaker 6: him so he could clean it, and she struggled to
Speaker 6: get it out and Matthew ended up having to do it.
Speaker 6: This is backed up by multiple family members and friends
Speaker 6: who agreed Jessica had no knowledge of how to handle
Speaker 6: a firearm. After completing what they say was a thorough
Speaker 6: investigation into all the evidence, the GBI and the Griffin
Speaker 6: Police Department ruled this was an attempt a Jessica and
Speaker 6: closed the case. The evidence they point to which say
Speaker 6: brought them to this conclusion was the text sent from
Speaker 6: Jessica's phone to Matthew in Jessica's DNA being founding on
Speaker 6: Matthew's service weapon, which the investigators still claim Jessica used
Speaker 6: to try and herself by shooting herself in the head,
Speaker 6: even despite the doctor's report that Jessica wasn't shot at all.
Speaker 6: Matthew was granted full custody of the couple's two children,
Speaker 6: with Jessica being given only supervised visitation once a week
Speaker 6: due to her officially having tried to end her life
Speaker 6: while loan in the house with the children. The court
Speaker 6: felt she was unstable and forced her into many services
Speaker 6: such as, but not limited to, parenting classes and extensive
Speaker 6: psychiatric evaluations and treatments. Jessica gets visitation of the children
Speaker 6: now with Matthew still having primary care and custody of
Speaker 6: them to this very day. Well there you have the
Speaker 6: strange case of Jessica Boyington. I'd love to know what
Speaker 6: you think about this in the comments, so many unanswered questions.
Speaker 6: In the meanwhile, take care of yourselves and each other.
Speaker 6: I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time.
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