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Filmmaker jumps off a cliff & runs into a forest... Missing 411 (Part 8) · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Every year, hundreds of people go missing inside of national
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  Speaker 1: parks and forests all over North America. Normally, you can
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  Speaker 1: attribute these disappearances to things like getting lost, not having
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  Speaker 1: the right equipment or enough food or water, or even
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  Speaker 1: getting attacked by a predator.
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  Speaker 2: But every year there's.
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  Speaker 1: Always a handful of cases where people go missing under
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  Speaker 1: baffling conditions.
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  Speaker 2: They were right in front of their friends or.
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  Speaker 1: Family who turn around for a second and when they
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  Speaker 1: turn back, they're gone, Or people vanish and then reappear
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  Speaker 1: days later in locations that are impossible to get to.
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  Speaker 1: One man named David Politis, who's a former police detective,
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  Speaker 1: began investigating these strange disappearances and started compiling what he
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  Speaker 1: was finding in a book series called Missing four one one,
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  Speaker 1: and he's discovered that there are thousands and thousands of
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  Speaker 1: these totally strange disappearances. They're everywhere, and no one's talking
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  Speaker 1: today's stories. In twenty fourteen, Aaron Hedges was thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: years old. He lived in Montana, and he was an
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  Speaker 1: avid hunter. During the hunting season, Aaron was known to
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  Speaker 1: spend almost every weekend or every other weekend hunting in
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  Speaker 1: one particular area known as the Crazy Mountains or the
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  Speaker 1: Crazies for short. The Crazies are a mountain range in
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  Speaker 1: Montana that are actually disconnected from the Rocky Mountains, so
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  Speaker 1: they're very isolated and they're beautiful, but they're incredibly rugged.
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  Speaker 2: And very steep.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron knew this area at the back of his hand
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  Speaker 1: because he was there all the time hunting. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: he was there so often that he began placing cachets
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  Speaker 1: of sleeping bags, food, water. He cacheted this all over
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  Speaker 1: the crazies and he knew how to get to his
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  Speaker 1: cachet points without the use of a map. He just
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  Speaker 1: could look around and know where he was and he
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  Speaker 1: could walk to his cachet point. On September third, twenty fourteen, Aerin,
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  Speaker 1: along with two of his close friends, decided to go
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  Speaker 1: on a hunting trip to the Crazies for a week.
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  Speaker 1: They planned on staying right next to this lake called
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  Speaker 1: Campfire Lake, but in order to get to it, they
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  Speaker 1: had to hike into the crazies. You could not drive
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  Speaker 1: a car to where they're going to stay. So they
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  Speaker 1: got two horses and a pack mule, and Aaron loaded
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  Speaker 1: much of his gear onto the pack mule, and so
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  Speaker 1: they begin this hike up to Campfire Lake. In a
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  Speaker 1: little ways into this first day hike, the mule spooks
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  Speaker 1: at something and runs away. In the process of running
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  Speaker 1: away from them, it ditched all of their equipment all
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  Speaker 1: over the place, and they couldn't recover it all.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: After they gathered up what they could and got the
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  Speaker 1: mule back and continued their walk, Aaron decided he didn't
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  Speaker 1: feel like going to one of his cachet points to
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  Speaker 1: try to retrieve an extra sleeping bag, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to use whatever extra gear you guys have,
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  Speaker 1: I'll make do. And so they continue on. They get
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  Speaker 1: to Campfire Lake and they set up their camp, and
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  Speaker 1: for the first couple of.
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  Speaker 2: Days, everything is going just fine.
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  Speaker 1: On the third day, Aaron decided that, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I could tough it out, but I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: go north to one of my cachet points and get
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  Speaker 1: that extra sleeping bag and try to get a few
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  Speaker 1: other things that were lost and make my living arrangements
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more comfortable while I'm here.
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  Speaker 2: And so his two buddies they know.
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  Speaker 1: That Aaron is in this section of the Crazies all
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  Speaker 1: the time, and so they didn't batny when he says
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  Speaker 1: he's going to go off on his own. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a very far distance to this cachet point. They said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see you later tonight. So Aaron takes off and
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  Speaker 1: after a little while, one of his buddies, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: uses his radio to reach out to Aaron. The walkie
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  Speaker 1: talkies they were using had this led screen that anytime
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  Speaker 1: you transmitted traffic on it, it would register your GPS location
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  Speaker 1: and transmit that to the person you're talking to. So
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  Speaker 1: when he hailed Erin at about ten in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: after he had left to go up to his cachet point,
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  Speaker 1: when Aaron radioed back, it showed up on their LED
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  Speaker 1: screen that instead of going north to this cachet point,
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  Speaker 1: he had deviated and gone.
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  Speaker 2: Very far to the east. And he would say on
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  Speaker 2: the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron would say back to them, hey, guys, I got
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  Speaker 1: mixed up and I missed the turn to go up
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  Speaker 1: to the cache point. I'm trying to find the trail
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  Speaker 1: to get back to the cachet point.
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  Speaker 2: But they expect him based on what he said, that
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  Speaker 2: he was just going to turn.
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  Speaker 1: And go to the cachet point and come back to
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  Speaker 1: where they were at some point that night. But here's
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  Speaker 1: the first weird thing about this case. Aaron got turned
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  Speaker 1: around and basically missed the turn at this really obvious
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  Speaker 1: fork in the trail. If you go this way, you'll
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  Speaker 1: get to your cachet. If you go this way, you'll
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  Speaker 1: end up where Erin is. And it's the complete wrong way.
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  Speaker 1: And you know it's the wrong way because on your
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  Speaker 1: right hand side. If you're going this way, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a creek on your right, whereas if you
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  Speaker 1: go towards the cachet, you're going uphill and there's no creek.
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  Speaker 1: So for Aaron, in perfect weather conditions to have missed
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  Speaker 1: a very obvious fork in the road that he knows
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  Speaker 1: well is a little bit strange. Not to mention where
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  Speaker 1: he showed up on their GPS when they talked to
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  Speaker 1: him on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: He was a ways down the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: He would have been next to that creek for long
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  Speaker 1: enough that he should have already turned around. It's like
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  Speaker 1: making a wrong turn and going forty five minutes to
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  Speaker 1: an hour in the wrong direction, when you already know
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  Speaker 1: it's the wrong direction. Why are you still going that way?
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  Speaker 1: But his friends were not that concerned. They had just
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  Speaker 1: spoken to him on the radio. He's saying, I got
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  Speaker 1: turned around. They're expecting him now to show up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later in the day, maybe in the evening.
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  Speaker 2: At some point.
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  Speaker 1: So that night, when he doesn't show up, they try
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  Speaker 1: radioing him and they can't get through to him, and
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  Speaker 1: they decide that, you know what, it's not that easy
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  Speaker 1: to call authorities. They didn't have cell reception out there,
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  Speaker 1: and it would have been about a day's hike before
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  Speaker 1: they could even get to a place where they could
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  Speaker 1: call authorities.
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  Speaker 2: So they decide, let's just stay here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: He could show up at any point in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night, and tomorrow, if he's out here, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go looking for him. The next morning, his friends get up.
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  Speaker 1: This is on September sixth. There's no Erran. So they
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  Speaker 1: head off in the direction of this cachet and they
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  Speaker 1: start looking for Erin and all day they're calling for him,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to radio him.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing, no sign of him.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, on the seventh, they do leave the area.
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  Speaker 1: They give up on their hunting trip and they head
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  Speaker 1: out of the crazies to contact authorities. Authorities launched this massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive search for Erin. But as soon as they launched
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  Speaker 1: this search, this massive storm rolls in, dumping two feet
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  Speaker 1: of snow within the first twelve hours of their search,
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  Speaker 1: so they really weren't able to accomplish much in those
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  Speaker 1: first two days, which brings us to September ninth. One
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  Speaker 1: of the main areas that they were looking for Aarin
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  Speaker 1: was following that path that he had gone down the
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  Speaker 1: wrong path away from his cash. They followed that path
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  Speaker 1: down along that creek, and we're looking for anywhere along
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  Speaker 1: the creek that he might have been. There this cliff
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  Speaker 1: that overlooked the creek, and on this cliff, next to
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  Speaker 1: a tree, they found Aaron's boots neatly placed side by side,
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  Speaker 1: as if put there intentionally. Next to his boots was
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  Speaker 1: a very obvious fire pit where someone had started a fire.
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  Speaker 1: In the fire pit was a cigarette container that was
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  Speaker 1: Aaron's brand. It looks every bit like Aaron had been here,
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  Speaker 1: smoked a cigarette, took his boots off for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: and had been sitting next to this fire.
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  Speaker 2: Also next to the fire was Aaron's.
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  Speaker 1: Camelback water bladder, as well as some of the straps
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  Speaker 1: that went to his backpack that had been burned inside
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  Speaker 1: of the fire pit. But there's no sign of Aarin
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  Speaker 1: or his remains anywhere near there. Also, the people who
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  Speaker 1: found the boots and the fire said that we were
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  Speaker 1: in this specific area over the past two days. This
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  Speaker 1: wasn't here At this point. Investigators believed that Aaron must
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  Speaker 1: have been suffering from severe hypothermia, where in severe cases
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  Speaker 1: people are known to actually strip their clothing, so the
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  Speaker 1: searchers created a new search area based on his boots.
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  Speaker 1: Thinking he had to bend at this fire pit smoking
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  Speaker 1: a cigarette. He took his boots off because he's got hypothermia,
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  Speaker 1: and he wandered off. But he can't have gotten far.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking two feet of snow on the ground in
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  Speaker 1: rugged terrain and he's barefoot. But despite searching extensively in
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  Speaker 1: their new search area, they couldn't find aaron or.
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  Speaker 2: Any sign of it. Nine months later, a family, the Ryan's.
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  Speaker 1: Family, who lived near the base of the Crazy Mountain range.
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  Speaker 1: They were doing their yearly maintenance on their fence that
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  Speaker 1: went around their entire property, and one of the family
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  Speaker 1: members decided to take a break from the work and
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  Speaker 1: walk up into the Crazies, just a little ways up
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  Speaker 1: to just sit on the mountain and look out across
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  Speaker 1: the land.
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  Speaker 2: It was a beautiful view.
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  Speaker 1: And as he's walking up, he gets about a mile
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  Speaker 1: from the property itself and he spots an orange vest
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  Speaker 1: under a tree, and so he figures a hunter must
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  Speaker 1: have lost their gear. So he walks up and he
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  Speaker 1: sees that not only is there an orange hunting vest
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  Speaker 1: laying on the ground, but there is a backpack that
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  Speaker 1: would turn out to be Aaron Hedges backpack leaning up
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  Speaker 1: against a tree, as if placed there on purpose. Inside
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  Speaker 1: of the pack was Aaron Hedge's wallet and license, along
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  Speaker 1: with a loaded gun.
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  Speaker 2: And food and water.
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  Speaker 1: Next to the pack, there was this rock, and on
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  Speaker 1: the rock was a thermosk that was open, along with
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  Speaker 1: an open energy drink, as if Aaron had set his
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  Speaker 1: pack down and then sat on this rock and was
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  Speaker 1: sipping an energy drink out of his thermos If Aaron
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  Speaker 1: had been sitting on that rock, as it appears he was,
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  Speaker 1: you can clearly see the Rhyan's property a mile away
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  Speaker 1: from you. It's right in front of you. It would
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  Speaker 1: be impossible not to see. Additionally, this location was six
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  Speaker 1: miles away from where Aaron's boots were found. So all
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron's gear is brought to the authorities who go
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  Speaker 1: out and they look for Aaron, and there's no sign
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  Speaker 1: of Aaron in the area. Another year would go by
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of horseback riders would be riding past
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  Speaker 1: that same area where the backpack was found, and they
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  Speaker 1: see a human skull sitting underneath a tree. Sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: it winds up being Aaron Hedge's skull and his skeletal
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  Speaker 1: remains were all.
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  Speaker 2: There except for his feet.
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  Speaker 1: His feet were never found, but the coroner could not
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  Speaker 1: determine a cause of death.
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  Speaker 2: So a couple of questions come to mind.
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  Speaker 1: How did Aaron, a guy that knows the crazies inside now,
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  Speaker 1: make that wrong turn in the first place?
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  Speaker 2: He should have known better.
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  Speaker 1: But even if we say he got turned around, it
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  Speaker 1: can happen to the best of us.
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  Speaker 2: He would have.
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  Speaker 1: Known he was going in the wrong direction because the
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  Speaker 1: creek would be on his right, but he kept going.
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  Speaker 2: Because we find his campsite.
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  Speaker 1: With his boots way down the path that was in
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  Speaker 1: the wrong direction. But even if we're willing to accept
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  Speaker 1: that as why he was at that campsite, he took
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  Speaker 1: off his boots and then he walked six miles in
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  Speaker 1: two feet of snow to a location that was literally
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  Speaker 1: looking at safety. The Rhine's property is right there. You
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  Speaker 1: have food, you have water, and you're sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: Drinking a drink. You have a loaded gun. You can
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  Speaker 2: fire it into the air to try to get someone's attention.
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  Speaker 1: But you don't use your resources, you don't go to safety,
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  Speaker 1: you die. In twenty eighteen, Terrence Woods was a twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven year old filmmaker slash journalist who had ever since
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  Speaker 1: graduating college, traveled the world filming in locations that are
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  Speaker 1: very rugged and sometimes quite dangerous for these documentaries and
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  Speaker 1: TV shows that he was known to work on. In
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  Speaker 1: October of that year, Terrence was going to travel to
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  Speaker 1: Idaho with a production company called Raw TV. They were
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  Speaker 1: doing a TV series around an abandoned gold mine called
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  Speaker 1: the Penman Mine. Penman Mine was located in an area
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  Speaker 1: that is quite rugged in the middle of the back country.
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  Speaker 1: Terrence had previously worked on two different backcountry shoots. One
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  Speaker 1: was done in Turkey and the other was done in Alaska,
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  Speaker 1: so he wasn't an expert by any means, but he
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  Speaker 1: was accustomed to being out in the wilderness to do
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  Speaker 1: some of these shoots. Prior to leaving for the trip,
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  Speaker 1: he had texted a number of his friends and just
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  Speaker 1: said he wasn't really that excited about going on the trip.
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  Speaker 1: His friends would later say to investigators that his language
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  Speaker 1: was not alarming. He was just kind of complaining about
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  Speaker 1: not wanting to go on a particular work trip, so
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  Speaker 1: it didn't stand out to them at all.
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  Speaker 2: Terrence arrives in Idaho.
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  Speaker 1: In early October, he texts his father to let him
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  Speaker 1: know that he's landed.
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  Speaker 2: He's made it to the hotel. Everything seems to be
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  Speaker 2: going normally.
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  Speaker 1: He was supposed to be there until mid November, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what everybody in his circle was expecting. So on
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  Speaker 1: October fifth, when Terrence sent a text to his father
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  Speaker 1: that just said I'm going to be coming home on
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  Speaker 1: October tenth, and there was no explanation, his father wondered why,
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  Speaker 1: and so he wrote a response and said, why are
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  Speaker 1: you cutting your trip short? But he never got a
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  Speaker 1: response because Terrence had actually already left for the day
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  Speaker 1: on October fifth to go do a shoot at this mine,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd be out of cell phone reception. On October fifth,
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  Speaker 1: the crew that was around Terrence all day reported that
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  Speaker 1: he was acting very strangely. He was very quiet with drawn,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really talking to anybody. And at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, when they were wrapping up shooting, one of
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  Speaker 1: the producers was sitting in a vehicle waiting for everyone
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  Speaker 1: to kind of finish up packing up, and Terrence said
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  Speaker 1: he wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To go relieve himself.
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  Speaker 1: Walked over to the edge of this cliff and for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason, this producer, he didn't know why, but he
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  Speaker 1: just thought he needed to look to see if Terrence
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  Speaker 1: was okay. And he turns to look where Terrence was
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  Speaker 1: standing at the edge of this cliff, and Terrence isn't
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  Speaker 1: there anymore, and he sees Terrence's radio is now sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, standing there, And there was just something
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  Speaker 1: about the scene that he saw that he instinctively knew
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  Speaker 1: something's wrong, and he actually ran up the cliff in
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  Speaker 1: case Terrence had.
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  Speaker 2: Fallen off a bit.
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  Speaker 1: But when he got to the edge of the cliff
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  Speaker 1: and looked over, he was shocked to see that Terrence
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  Speaker 1: was down there, about fifteen feet down, but was it
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  Speaker 1: laying on the ground like he had fallen. He was
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  Speaker 1: sprinting down the hill, not saying a word, not looking up,
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  Speaker 1: running at full speed down the hill into the forest.
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  Speaker 1: The producer didn't know what to do. He kind of
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  Speaker 1: yelled to some other people and said, hey, what's Terrence doing.
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  Speaker 1: No one knew, and so the producer and somebody else
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  Speaker 1: also began chasing after Terrence. But after a little while
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't catch up to him, and they were worried
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  Speaker 1: that by chasing after him, they might scare him, and
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  Speaker 1: so instead they immediately go and they call authorities and
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  Speaker 1: this huge search is launched for Terrence. So for a week,
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  Speaker 1: you have all these people looking for Terrence. You have
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  Speaker 1: people on foot, you have dog teams, you have a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter with infrared technology, you have all these people combing
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  Speaker 1: this area, and there's no sign of Terence. One of
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  Speaker 1: these search and rescue officers commented that it would have
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  Speaker 1: been so hard to get away from the search because
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  Speaker 1: the ground inside of that forest was so covered with
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  Speaker 1: fallen trees that there were times where you were just
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  Speaker 1: walking on fallen trees.
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  Speaker 2: You weren't even touching the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And so the idea that Terence could run in there
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  Speaker 1: and effectively evade this massive search that had kind of
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  Speaker 1: encircled the area, it just didn't make any sense. But
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  Speaker 1: there was just no trace of him, and to this
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  Speaker 1: day we have no idea where he went. There's never
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  Speaker 1: been a sign of what happened to Terrence. He just
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  Speaker 1: started running away for reasons we don't understand, and disappeared
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  Speaker 1: on the same day that Terrence Woods goes missing, twenty
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  Speaker 1: six miles away in the same mountain range, a seventy
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  Speaker 1: six year old woman named Connie Johnson also goes missing
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  Speaker 1: under very strange circumstances. Connie was an outdoors woman through
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  Speaker 1: and through. She had previously worked as a wilderness ranger
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  Speaker 1: for the US Forest Service, and she was known to
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  Speaker 1: take young people out on trips along the back country
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  Speaker 1: and teach them how to survive. Her friends said that
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: she had tremendous survival skills and spent much of her
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: time alone in the woods. Connie was working as a
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: camp cook for Richie Outfitters. It was a company that
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: organized hunting trips in the Idaho and Montana backcountry. The
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: camp that she was actually working at was not accessible
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: by vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: You had to get there on foot or on horseback.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: On ourtober second, all of the hunters at the Richie
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Outfitters camp that she was working in left for a
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: three day hunting trip. They said by to her and
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: buy to her dog Ace, and they were gone. She
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: was the only person at the camp. The following day,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: they got a very strange radio transmission from Connie. They
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: couldn't understand what she was saying. We couldn't tell she
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: was mumbling or if there was something wrong, or maybe
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: it could have been the radio, but when no one
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: could understand what she was saying, they ultimately said, Okay,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sure she's fine. And so a couple days go
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  Speaker 1: by and on October fifth, the hunting party returns to
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the cabin and Connie's gone, as well as her dog Ace.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: They're both gone.
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  Speaker 1: All they could find was Connie's jacket was laying over
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: her gun that was sitting on a picnic table.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: A very intense search was launched that included the National Guard,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the Air Force, helicopters, dog teams, ground searchers. They couldn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: find her or her dog, and so on October sixteenth,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: they called off the search. Three weeks later, Ace, her dog,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: would show up fifteen miles away from where they had
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: gone missing. The dog was emaciated, but was okay. They
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: fed the dog and then they tried to get the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: dog to help them find Connie, but to no avail.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: To this day, we have no idea where Connie went
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: or why she left the camp to begin with. In
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: February of two thousand and eight, the Pilkinton family, which
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: was David and Camilla, along with their two sons, Timothy
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and William, who was seven years old were on vacation
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: on the west coast of Vancouver Island. They were staying
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: in this tiny little town called Tofino, which was at
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the end of one of the peninsulas on the island.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: There was maybe twenty streets in the town. There's only
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a handful of places that you could stay. Everybody knew
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: everybody on the island. I mean, it was really a
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: tiny place. One morning, David wakes up early and decides
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: he wants to take both of his sons down to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: one of Tofino's beaches, and so he gets Timothy and William.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: They walk over and they go down this flight of
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: steps that leads down onto the beach itself. And when
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: they get to the bottom of the steps, William says
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: he wants to stay at the foot of the stairs.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Timothy wants to go actually walk around the beach with David,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: and so David couldn't convince William to come with him
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: and with Timothy, and so he says, Okay, William, you
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: stay right here. I'm going to go with Timothy for
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a couple of minutes and walk around the beach. So
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: David and Timothy walked only about ten or fifteen meters
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: away from William, who just standing at the foot of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the stairs, just watching his dad and his brother. And
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: at some point David would say that he turned his
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: back on his son. He said it was maybe for
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: a minute, and he was looking at Timothy and they
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: were doing whatever they were doing. And then when he
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: turned around, William wasn't there anymore. And so David instinctively
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: runs over because there's nobody else down there. There's nowhere
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: really for him to have gone, but he runs over.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: He's looking on the sides of the stairs. He can't
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: find his son, you know, he's looking where he could
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: have gone, and it only made sense for him to
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: probably go up the stairs. It wouldn't have been long
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: enough for him to get into the water. It only
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: been about a minute he had turned his back, and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: so he goes up the stairs.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: He's looking around.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: He can't find his son. And this huge search is
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: launched for this boy because this just happened. It's a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: very small area they figured they can find this kid.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: The main area they were going to look was inside
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: of the forest.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Tofino had a very dense forest right in the middle
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: of it, and since the beach butted.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Up against the forest.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: They figured that the boy could have walked up the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: stairs and made it into the forest in that one
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: minute that his father's back was turned. And so after
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: an exhaust to search of this forest and there's no
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: sign of him. Unfortunately, investigators began to look to the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: beach and we're waiting for a body to wash up
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: on shore because historically the only people that ever went
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: missing in Tofino were either found in the forest or
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: they washed up on the beach, the only two places
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you can go.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: There isn't anywhere else you can go.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: But the boy never washed up on a beach, and
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: they never found a shred of evidence ever in the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: forest where that boy was.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: He just vanished. So unfortunately, like basically all of.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: The missing four to one one cases, you have a
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: baffling set of circumstances with no clear resolution. We don't
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: know what happened to these people, and we probably never will,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't stop us from theorizing about what could
• 19:41
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• 19:43
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• 19:44
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• 19:46
  Speaker 2: About missing four one one.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I do have a playlist just called Missing four one one,
• 19:50
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• 19:53
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• 19:55
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• 19:58
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• 20:03
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• 20:06
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