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She Came Back Wearing Her Own Vest - With No Memory Why · Scary Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: At 9.51 in the morning on October 13th, 2019, Marsha
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  Speaker 1: Sanders' GPS tracker went silent in the Vanik drainage wilderness
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  Speaker 1: of central Idaho. The device had no malfunction. Someone pressed
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  Speaker 1: pause manually. Three days later, searchers found her orange hunting
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  Speaker 1: vest hanging from a broken pine branch at shoulder height,
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  Speaker 1: four and a half miles from the trailhead, in terrain
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  Speaker 1: that required a rope to reach. The vest was clean.
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  Speaker 1: Her name was written on it in her own handwriting.
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  Speaker 1: and Marsha Sanders had no memory of putting it there.
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  Speaker 1: She was found alive on October 17th, but the question
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  Speaker 1: that the official incident report could not answer, the question
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  Speaker 1: that the search and rescue commander eventually committed to writing,
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  Speaker 1: is the one that stayed long after the rescue helicopters landed.
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  Speaker 1: How does a person end up two miles from where
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  Speaker 1: their GPS stopped, in the dark, through broken limestone and
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  Speaker 1: boulder fields, without any memory of the journey? And what
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  Speaker 1: happened to the three days in between? That question does
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  Speaker 1: not have a clean answer, What it has is a
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  Speaker 1: trail of details, each one stranger than the last. To
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  Speaker 1: understand what made Marsha's disappearance so alarming, so fast, you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand who she was before that morning. Marsha
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  Speaker 1: Sanders was 28 years old, a water quality technician from
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  Speaker 1: Twin Falls, Idaho. She had an Idaho State degree in
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  Speaker 1: environmental science and had been hunting since she was 16.
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  Speaker 1: These were not recreational weekends for her. She knew how
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  Speaker 1: to read terrain, how to navigate in low light, how
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  Speaker 1: to regulate her body temperature and her pace. She had
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  Speaker 1: hunted the Vanik drainage with Phil Detmer before, twice. She
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  Speaker 1: was not a novice walking into unfamiliar country. She was
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  Speaker 1: also someone whose people knew exactly where to expect her.
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  Speaker 1: Every Wednesday evening, Marsha worked a volunteer shift at her
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  Speaker 1: local food bank, six to nine in the evening.
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  Speaker 2: Back left corner shelf.
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  Speaker 1: The coordinator, Pat Kurtz, had worked alongside her long enough
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  Speaker 1: to know one thing about Marsha Sanders. She never missed
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  Speaker 1: a shift without calling by noon.
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  Speaker 2: Not once.
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  Speaker 1: If something came up, she called first. That was simply
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  Speaker 1: how she operated. She had filed a trip plan with
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  Speaker 1: her contact, Dennis Abad, the morning of October 13th. She
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  Speaker 1: had told people where she was going. She had planned
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  Speaker 1: to be back. Phil Detmer organized the trip. He was 41,
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  Speaker 1: a Finnish carpenter from Boise, and this was his ninth
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  Speaker 1: elk season.
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  Speaker 2: In the Vanik drainage. He knew the land.
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  Speaker 1: He brought his brother-in-law, Aaron Voss, 34, a second-year hunter
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  Speaker 1: who had been documenting the trip with trail photography.
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  Speaker 2: The three of them.
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  Speaker 1: Drove out in Detmer's truck before dawn on October 13th.
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  Speaker 1: By the time the light came up over the ridgeline,
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  Speaker 1: they were already miles in at around 7 in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: The group reached a junction called Cutter Hollow. The plan
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  Speaker 1: was to split up and cover more ground. Marsha would
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  Speaker 1: take the North Fork alone. Detmer and Voss would head south.
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  Speaker 1: They would meet at a downed fir landmark that afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: It was a plan that made sense for experienced hunters
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  Speaker 1: in familiar country. Detmer had been through that drainage nine times.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha knew how to handle herself. Splitting up was a
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  Speaker 1: reasonable call. What happened next, in the north fork of
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  Speaker 1: that trail, is still only partially known. Marsha's GPS recorded
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  Speaker 1: her moving steadily for just over two miles, from 7.14
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  Speaker 1: to 9.51 in the morning. Then the track stopped. The
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  Speaker 1: unit was later found sitting upright on a flat rock
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  Speaker 1: on the upper basin ridge. Battery at 62%. Oriented downhill.
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  Speaker 1: No satellite gap. No malfunction. The pause was entered by hand.
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  Speaker 1: By 2.30 that afternoon, Detmer and Voss were at the
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  Speaker 1: downed fir. Marsha was not there. By 4 o'clock, Detmer
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  Speaker 1: had walked back out to the trailhead to report her missing.
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday came and went. The back left corner shelf at
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  Speaker 1: the food bank went unstocked. Pat Kurtz did not receive
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  Speaker 1: a call. The GPS unit was the first thing that
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  Speaker 1: didn't add up. Search and rescue teams found it on
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  Speaker 1: October 15th, sitting upright on a flat rock at the
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  Speaker 1: upper basin ridge. Battery at 62%, oriented downhill, as.
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  Speaker 2: If placed deliberately. The unit had not malfunctioned.
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  Speaker 1: There was no satellite gap, no corrupted data. The last
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  Speaker 1: track entry showed Marsha moving steadily up the North Fork
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  Speaker 1: from 714 until 951 in the morning of October 13th.
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  Speaker 1: Then the recording stopped. Someone had pressed pause. That detail,
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  Speaker 1: the manual pause, would anchor every question that followed. Megan Cooper,
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  Speaker 1: the incident commander with 20 years of search and rescue experience,
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  Speaker 1: organized her teams by the terrain. Four ground teams, two
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  Speaker 1: dog teams, a drone. They spread across the vanic drainage
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  Speaker 1: at first light on October 15th. The North Fork received
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  Speaker 1: the most attention. That was the last direction anyone had
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  Speaker 1: seen Marsha walk. The dog teams moved fast. They picked
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  Speaker 1: up scent immediately off the North Fork Trail and followed
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  Speaker 1: it uphill toward the second choke point. The narrows were
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  Speaker 1: the canyon walls, close to ten or twelve feet apart,
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  Speaker 1: loose shale underfoot, a stream cutting through the middle. The
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  Speaker 1: scent was strong. The dogs were confident. Then it ended,
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  Speaker 1: at the water's edge, West Bank. The scent simply stopped.
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  Speaker 1: There was no indication that Marsha had crossed to the
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  Speaker 1: other side. There was no scent trail above the wall,
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  Speaker 1: no trace climbing out.
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  Speaker 2: The dogs... Worked the perimeter. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened at that choke point, the terrain itself refused
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  Speaker 1: to answer. Two loops were open now. A GPS paused
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  Speaker 1: by hand. A scent trail that vanished at water's edge.
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  Speaker 1: Cooper kept moving. The vest appeared the next morning. Team
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  Speaker 1: 4 descended into the main cutter hollow drainage on October 16th.
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  Speaker 1: Using rope assistance, the terrain required it. Four and a
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  Speaker 1: half miles from the trailhead. Roughly two miles south of
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  Speaker 1: where the GPS unit had been found A broken pine
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  Speaker 1: stub jutted from the slope at shoulder height, looped over
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  Speaker 1: it carefully, was an orange hunting vest. Medium size, Marsha's
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  Speaker 1: name written inside in her own handwriting. The fabric was clean.
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  Speaker 1: No mud, no tears, no signs of distress. Roy Pacheco,
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  Speaker 1: Team 4's leader, radioed it in. Cooper acknowledged, then there
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  Speaker 1: was silence on the channel. Several seconds, by Pacheco's account.
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  Speaker 1: He later said it was the only moment during the
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  Speaker 1: operation that he felt genuinely afraid, not because of what
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  Speaker 1: the vest suggested, because of what Cooper didn't say. Cooper's
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  Speaker 1: written report noted the vest location carefully. She recorded that
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  Speaker 1: reaching it required rope-assisted descent. She noted the clean condition
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  Speaker 1: of the fabric and the precise placement, looped, not dropped,
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  Speaker 1: not tangled. And then she wrote in the official incident
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  Speaker 1: report that the vest had no satisfying explanation. That phrase
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  Speaker 1: became the final official position.
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  Speaker 2: Not a placeholder. Not pending further investigation. Final. Three anomalies now.
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  Speaker 2: The PAWS GPS. The scent that ended at water. The vest.
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  Speaker 1: Hung carefully in terrain that required a rope to reach.
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  Speaker 1: Each one alone could be explained. Together, they drew a
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  Speaker 1: shape that Cooper couldn't name. There was something else Cooper
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  Speaker 1: had been sitting with. Something that hadn't made it into
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  Speaker 1: the first public account of the search. Phil Detmer had
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  Speaker 1: been interviewed twice. The first interview was standard. Trip organizer,
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  Speaker 1: nine seasons in the drainage, responsible account of the group's movements.
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  Speaker 2: He described the split at.
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  Speaker 1: Cutter Hollow, the plan to meet at the downed fur,
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  Speaker 1: the weight that turned into worry. His account and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Voss's account aligned closely, almost too closely, in the way
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  Speaker 1: accounts sometimes do when people have had time to compare notes.
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  Speaker 1: In the second interview, Detmer said something different. He admitted
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  Speaker 1: there had been an argument before the group split at
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  Speaker 1: Cutter Hollow. Marsha had wanted to stay together, She didn't
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  Speaker 1: think splitting up in that terrain was a good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Detmer had overruled her. He was the trip organizer. He
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  Speaker 1: knew the drainage, and the plan was to cover more ground.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha went north alone. He had not mentioned this in
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  Speaker 1: the first interview. Cooper filed it. No charges were filed,
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  Speaker 1: but the omission sat in the record. The last known
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  Speaker 1: moment between Marsha and her companions had been a disagreement,
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  Speaker 1: and the man who organized the trip had chosen not
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  Speaker 1: to volunteer that information. Neither Detmer nor Voss produced a
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  Speaker 1: single photograph of Marsha from the morning of October 13th.
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  Speaker 1: Both men carried phones. Both had used them. Voss had
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  Speaker 1: been documenting the trip. No image from that morning existed
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  Speaker 1: in either device. That absence is not evidence of anything specific,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the kind of absence that, once you
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  Speaker 1: noticed it, was hard to stop thinking about. And then
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  Speaker 1: Brian Gray called. Gray ran the Van Eck River Trail
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  Speaker 1: most mornings. He had been doing it for six years.
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  Speaker 1: On October 14th, the day after Marsha disappeared, before any
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  Speaker 1: public search announcement, he saw something at mile four. A
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  Speaker 1: figure moving along the trail, lurching, he told the 911 dispatcher.
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  Speaker 1: Unsteady in a way that didn't look like injury. More
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  Speaker 1: like someone who had lost their bearings. Gray couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: a clear look. The figure moved into the tree lime.
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  Speaker 1: He reported it because it stayed with him. The figure
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  Speaker 1: was never matched to Marsha Sanders. It was never matched
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  Speaker 1: to anyone. Picture the North Fork Trail at 10 in
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  Speaker 1: the morning on October 13th. Marsha has been moving for
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  Speaker 1: about two hours and 37 minutes. Her GPS shows two
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  Speaker 1: steady miles of uphill travel. The terrain is honest wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: choke points, loose shale, cold water running across the path.
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  Speaker 1: She is experienced enough to handle all of it. She
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  Speaker 1: has hunted since she was 16.
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  Speaker 2: She filed the trip plan. She argued.
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  Speaker 1: Before she left, that the group should stay together. At 9.51,
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  Speaker 1: she paused her GPS. If she paused it because she
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  Speaker 1: was stopping to glass a ridge or shed a layer,
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  Speaker 1: she would have restarted it. Hunters do this. The track
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  Speaker 1: would show a gap, then resume. It did not resume.
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  Speaker 1: The unit was later found upright on a rock, oriented downhill,
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  Speaker 1: battery more than half full. That is not what a
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  Speaker 1: device looks like when someone drops it and walks away.
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  Speaker 1: That is what it looks like when someone sets it
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  Speaker 1: down deliberately. Walk that forward. If Marsha set the GPS
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  Speaker 1: down on purpose, she had a reason. a reason compelling
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  Speaker 1: enough to leave her primary navigation tool behind in terrain
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  Speaker 1: where the canyon walls narrow to 12 feet and the
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  Speaker 1: scent dogs would later lose her trail at the water.
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  Speaker 1: That reason has never been established from the record. Now
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  Speaker 1: follow the vest to reach the broken pine stub where
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  Speaker 1: the vest was found. A person needs a rope. The
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  Speaker 1: terrain drops 700 feet through broken limestone and a boulder
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  Speaker 1: field before reaching the main cutter hollow drainage at night.
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  Speaker 1: without a GPS, in a dissociative state. The medical finding
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  Speaker 1: at the hospital was acute, hypoglycemia triggering a documented fugue condition.
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  Speaker 1: The idea of navigating that descent is almost impossible to picture.
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  Speaker 2: But here is what the record shows happened.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha was found three quarters of a mile below the vest,
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  Speaker 1: wedged in a rock alcove above the drainage floor, alive.
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  Speaker 1: The vest was above her, hung on a stub, her
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  Speaker 1: name facing outward, and she has no memory of any
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  Speaker 1: of it, The neurologist who examined her documented the fugue
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  Speaker 1: state carefully. He noted her childhood concussion. He noted the
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  Speaker 1: family history of absent seizures on her mother's side. Acute hypoglycemia,
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  Speaker 1: he concluded, had triggered a dissociative episode with no prior warning.
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  Speaker 1: She had no history of the condition. There was nothing
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  Speaker 1: in her medical record that would have flagged this risk.
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  Speaker 1: That explanation is real and documented. It accounts for the
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  Speaker 1: memory gap. It accounts for the disorientation. the inability to stand,
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  Speaker 1: the core temperature of 91 degrees when rescuers reached her.
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  Speaker 1: What it does not account for, what no version of
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  Speaker 1: events has accounted for, is the vest. A person in
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  Speaker 1: a dissociative fugue state does not navigate a 700-foot rope-access
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  Speaker 1: descent and hang their vest at shoulder height with the
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  Speaker 1: name tag facing outward. The physical and cognitive demands of
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  Speaker 1: that placement are incompatible with.
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  Speaker 2: The medical state.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha was in if she hung it before the fugue
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  Speaker 1: began She had a reason specific enough to make her
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  Speaker 1: remove visible safety gear in difficult terrain and place it
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  Speaker 1: where it might be seen from below. That reason is
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  Speaker 1: not in the record. If she hung it during the fugue,
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  Speaker 1: the documented medical literature on dissociative episodes offers no mechanism
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  Speaker 1: for that level of purposeful, precise physical action. Cooper wrote
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  Speaker 1: it down and called it what it was. No satisfying explanation.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation closed on that sentence. Marsha Sanders spent four
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  Speaker 1: days recovering in a hospital in Salmon, Idaho. She came
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  Speaker 1: out alive. That is not a small thing. But she
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  Speaker 1: came out with a gap in her memory, stretching from
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  Speaker 1: 10 in the morning on October 13th to the moment
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  Speaker 1: a rescue headlamp found her face in the dark. Inside
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  Speaker 1: that gap is everything the record cannot answer. The vest
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  Speaker 1: remains on the flat rock in the report, looped over
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  Speaker 1: its broken stub, name facing out, waiting for someone who
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  Speaker 1: never needed it to be a landmark.
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  Speaker 2: The investigation is closed.
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  Speaker 1: That is the official position, and it is worth sitting
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  Speaker 1: with exactly what that means. Megan Cooper filed her incident
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  Speaker 1: report in the weeks following Marsha's rescue. The report documented
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  Speaker 1: the GPS unit, found upright on a flat rock, battery
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  Speaker 1: at 62%, manually paused. It documented the scent trail ending
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  Speaker 1: at the water's edge on the west bank. With no evidence,
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  Speaker 1: Marsha crossed to the other side. It documented the vest, orange, medium,
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  Speaker 1: looped over a broken pine stub at shoulder height, name
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  Speaker 1: written in Marsha's own hand, facing outward, found in terrain,
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  Speaker 1: that required a rope-assisted descent to reach, and in the
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  Speaker 1: space where an explanation should have been, Cooper wrote the
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  Speaker 1: only honest sentence available to her. No satisfying explanation. Phil
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  Speaker 1: Detmer's second interview sits in that same file, he admitted,
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  Speaker 1: when pressed, that the group had argued at Cutter Hollow
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  Speaker 1: before splitting. Marsha wanted to stay together. He overruled her.
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  Speaker 1: That admission was absent from his first account. Cooper noted it.
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  Speaker 1: No charges followed, because nothing in the record... connects that
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  Speaker 1: argument to what happened afterward. But the omission is there, documented,
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  Speaker 1: and it does not dissolve simply because no charges were filed.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Voss is in the file too. Detmer's brother-in-law, second
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  Speaker 1: year hunting, self-described trail photographer who produced no photographs from
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  Speaker 1: October 13th. Two men with phones, not one image of
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  Speaker 1: Marsha from that morning. Brian Gray's 911 call from October
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  Speaker 1: 14th is there as well. A lurching figure at mile
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  Speaker 1: four of the Venick River Trail. seen and reported, never
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  Speaker 1: matched to any person. Not to Marsha, not to anyone
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  Speaker 1: else in the drainage that day. None of these threads
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  Speaker 1: resolve into a clean answer. They simply remain in the record,
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  Speaker 1: each one logged and left open. What the record does answer,
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  Speaker 1: Marsha Sanders is alive. On October 17th, 2019, at 6.44
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, a rescue headlamp found her wedged in
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  Speaker 1: a shallow rock alcove, three quarters of a mile below
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  Speaker 1: where her vest had been hanging. Her core temperature was
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  Speaker 1: 91 degrees. She was severely dehydrated and could not stand.
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  Speaker 1: She was airlifted to a hospital in Salmon, Idaho, and
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  Speaker 1: spent four days in recovery. A neurologist documented acute hypoglycemia,
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  Speaker 1: triggering a dissociative fugue state, a rare condition with no
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  Speaker 1: prior history in Marsha's record, though her mother's side carried
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  Speaker 1: a family history of absence, seizures, and a childhood concussion
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  Speaker 1: was noted as a possible contributing factor. The fugue explains
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  Speaker 1: the gap. It explains why she cannot account for nearly
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  Speaker 1: three full days. It explains the disorientation, the temperature, the alcove.
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  Speaker 1: What it does not explain is the vest. The medical
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  Speaker 1: literature on dissociative episodes does not describe patients navigating 700
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  Speaker 1: feet of broken limestone and boulder field in the dark,
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  Speaker 1: locating a specific broken stub, removing visible safety gear, and
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  Speaker 1: hanging it with the name tag oriented outward. Those actions
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  Speaker 1: require planning. They require intention. They require a person who knows,
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  Speaker 1: on some level, what they are doing and why. Marsha
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  Speaker 1: has no memory of any of it. That is where
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  Speaker 1: the record ends. There is something specific about this case
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  Speaker 1: that resists the usual ways of setting a story down.
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  Speaker 1: Most wilderness disappearances resolve into one of two shapes. Either
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  Speaker 1: the terrain explains everything, a fall, exposure, a wrong turn
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  Speaker 1: and failing light, or the human element explains everything. and
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  Speaker 1: the terrain was just the setting. The vanic drainage does
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  Speaker 1: not offer either shape. The terrain is real and severe,
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  Speaker 1: and it nearly killed her. The medical explanation is real
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  Speaker 1: and documented, and the vest is also real, and it
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  Speaker 1: fits neither shape, and the official record says so plainly.
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  Speaker 1: Marsha Sanders went into those mountains as a hunter who
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  Speaker 1: had been doing this since she was 16 years old.
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  Speaker 1: She filed her trip plan with Dennis Abad that morning.
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  Speaker 1: She showed up every Wednesday at the food bank, back
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  Speaker 1: left corner shelf, 6 to 9 in the evening, and
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  Speaker 1: she called Pat Kurtz if she was ever going to miss.
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  Speaker 1: She did not call on October 16th, because by then
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  Speaker 1: she was somewhere in the drainage, in a rock alcove,
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  Speaker 1: with a core temperature of 91 degrees, and no memory
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  Speaker 1: of how she had arrived.
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  Speaker 2: She came out alive.
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  Speaker 1: That matters more than anything else in this file. But
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  Speaker 1: she came out carrying a gap that four days of
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  Speaker 1: the most careful search and rescue work Megan Cooper had
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  Speaker 1: directed in 20 years could not fill. The dogs, the drone,
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  Speaker 1: the four ground teams … The rope assisted descent into
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  Speaker 1: the main cutter hollow drainage. All of it assembled a
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  Speaker 1: picture with one piece that will not fit. There are
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  Speaker 1: questions in this record that honest investigation cannot answer. Where
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  Speaker 1: Marsha went after 9.51 in the morning, on October 13th,
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  Speaker 1: whether she paused that GPS herself, and why. How the
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  Speaker 1: vest traveled two miles through terrain that required a rope
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  Speaker 1: to navigate. what the lurching figure at mile four was,
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  Speaker 1: and where it went. Whether the argument at Cutter Hollow
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  Speaker 1: was the last ordinary moment before everything stopped making sense,
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  Speaker 1: or whether it was simply an argument between people under
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  Speaker 1: pressure in hard country, the kind that happens and then passes.
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  Speaker 1: Megan Cooper closed the file. That was the right call
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  Speaker 1: given what the evidence showed. Closing a file is not
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  Speaker 1: the same as answering its questions. Cooper knew that. She
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  Speaker 1: wrote it into the report. Marsha Sanders is back in
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  Speaker 1: Twin Falls. The record does not follow her further than that.
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  Speaker 2: What she lives with.
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  Speaker 1: The knowledge that somewhere in three days of her own life,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: she did something she cannot remember, something that left an
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: orange vest hanging in rope-access terrain, with her name facing out.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: That is hers alone to carry. The wilderness kept most
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of what happened. It usually does.
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  Speaker 2: This show was made by Oboe Media.