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Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Monday Feb 19, 2024
Two-year-old DeOrr Kunz vanished while camping with his family at Timber Creek Campground on July 10 of 2015. Did he simply vanish or do his parents know where he is?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p5A6oSgoDk
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/vanished-in-idaho-where-is-deorr-kunz-jr-b7a087be348b
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/deorr-kunz
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https://www.eastidahonews.com/news/deorr/
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Longer 911 call Fhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW_P0LoG2w4
Monday Feb 12, 2024
Monday Feb 12, 2024
in 2010 Forrest Fenn released a poem that if decoded would lead to over a million dollars in treasure that he had hidden in the woods. More than 300,000 people set out in search of the treasure but not all of them would return
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https://thefinder.medium.com/a-remembrance-of-forrest-fenn-1be2a8646ff2
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/forrest-fenn-dead.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-treasure-hunt-that-captivated-thousands-and-killed-five https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161570404/randall-bruce-bilyeu
https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2016/09/22/authorities-death-treasure-hunter-remains-mystery/90869596/ https://www.broomfieldenterprise.com/2016/08/01/family-mourns-loss-of-randy-bilyeu/
https://fennstreasure.com/fenn-treasure-poem/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/us/forrest-fenn-death-trnd/index.html https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a31977388/fenn-treasure-clues-deaths/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FindingFennsGold/comments/17bpubf/full_solution_for_the_location_of_forrest_fenns/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/forrest-fenn-treasure-hunt/8/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/20/587427220/search-for-buried-treasure-linked-to-illinois-man-s-death-at-yellowstone https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43136287 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/forrest-fenn-treasure-hunt-may-have-claimed-its-third-victim-n788191 https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/ForrestFenn_Emails_Incidents_forWeb.pdf
https://www.kulr8.com/news/final-report-yellowstone-fenn-treasure-death/article_d2bc3eba-d3f1-5ac6-bb55-965d8921fad0.html https://www.denverpost.com/2017/06/20/colorado-pastor-found-treasure-hunt/ https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/gjsentinel/name/paris-wallace-obituary?id=14051822 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paris-wallace-dies-search-for-forrest-fenn-treasure/
https://www.fox21news.com/news/i-believe-something-sinister-happened-that-day-sister-of-eric-ashby-says-of-brothers-disappearance/ https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/co-eric-ashby-31-colorado-springs-28-june-2017.343088/page-3#post-13569550 https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2018/01/26/fremont-county-coroner-body-found-in-july-identified-as-eric-ashby/ https://www.canoncitydailyrecord.com/2017/07/12/fremont-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-missing-person-involved-in-river-accident/
https://www.westword.com/news/eric-ashby-finally-idd-as-rafter-who-died-looking-for-forrest-fenn-treasure-9931452 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208535386/michael-wayne-sexson
https://www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-bureau-of-investigation-puts-fani-willis-rumor-to-rest
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Part Two: The Butcher Baker was a serial killer active in Alaska starting in the early 70's. He would kidnap his victims, fly them into the woods, make them strip down, and blindfold them before hunting them down
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sources:
- https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP28954
- https://charleyproject.org/case/andrea-mona-altiery
- https://skdb.fandom.com/wiki/HANSEN_Robert_Christian#cite_ref-5
- https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/hunting-humans-the-story-of-sadistic-butcher-baker-robert-hansen-f219dc2451e9
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26778974/tamara-joy-pederson
- https://lelandhale.com/butcherbaker/wordpress/2018/05/17/grieving-stepfather/
- https://uncovered.com/cases/susan-edmondson
- https://gunmemorial.org/1983/02/01/angela-feddern
- https://wickedhorror.com/features/victims-spotlight-the-suspected-victims-of-alaskas-butcher-baker/
- https://namus.nij.ojp.gov/case/MP93441
- https://www.alaskavisit.com/
- https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/09/cindy-paulson-after-escaping-robert-hansen/
- https://lelandhale.com/butcherbaker/wordpress/2017/12/31/witnesses-step-up/
- https://www.adn.com/crime-justice/article/serial-killer-hansen-dead-world-better-without-him-trooper-says/2014/08/22/
- https://medium.com/criminal-file/robert-hansen-the-butcher-baker-alaska-s-most-sadistic-serial-killer-d85fa2b0192
- https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
Sunday Jan 14, 2024
The Butcher Baker was a serial killer active in Alaska starting in the early 70's. He would kidnap his victims, fly them into the woods, make them strip down, and blindfold them before hunting them down
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sources:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hansen#Further_reading
- https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/PIO/PressReleases/Victim-of-Serial-Killer-Robert-Hansen-Identified-3
- https://www.9news.com.au/world/robert-hansen-dna-match-ids-alaska-serial-killers-victim-after-37-years/fec9a0b1-e0ac-4e3a-8b60-b3bba84f948e
- https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/hansen-robert-victims.htm
- https://www.thv11.com/article/news/crime/true-crime/former-arkansas-resident-identified-victim-robert-hansen/91-9851c19b-fa5a-4271-8f9e-3190582b9c46
- https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/weird/robert_hansen/7.html
- https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/weird/robert_hansen/2.html
- https://dps.alaska.gov/AST/ABI/MissingPerson
- https://lelandhale.com/butcherbaker/wordpress/2017/01/11/denied-by-hansen-pt-1-megan-emerick/
- https://www.graylinealaska.com/blog/49-things-you-didnt-know-about-alaska/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/ckpr7n/alaska_has_twice_the_national_average_of_missing/
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/robert-hansen
- https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/robert-hansen-the-butcher-baker-hid-his-evil-side-to-lure-hunt-and-murder-at-least-17-women-in-alaska/news-story/54bebc28ba8e0426443195c694241a9d
- https://www.crimelibrary.org/serial_killers/weird/robert_hansen/5.html
- https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/true-crime-in-the-outdoors/category/Robert+Hansen
- https://www.wvnstv.com/digital-desk/how-many-missing-persons-are-found-in-the-u-s-yearly/
- https://truecrimedetective.co.uk/hunting-humans-the-story-of-sadistic-butcher-baker-robert-hansen-f219dc2451e9
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/22/alaska-serial-killer-dies/14426941/
- https://uncovered.com/states/alaska-cold-cases
- https://darkmatter69.blogspot.com/2022/06/alaskas-oldest-cold-case-who-murdered.html
- https://lelandhale.com/butcherbaker/wordpress/2018/07/31/beth-van-zanten-disappearance/
- https://charleyproject.org/case/megan-siobhan-emerick
- https://charleyproject.org/case/sandra-lee-davis
- https://charleyproject.org/case/mary-kathleen-thill
- https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen#Background
- https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Hansen#Imprisonment
- https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrimeDiscussion/comments/xqt7re/robert_hansen_the_man_that_hunted_his_victims/
- https://militaryjusticeforall.com/tag/joanna-messina/
- https://wickedhorror.com/features/victims-spotlight-remembering-the-victims-of-alaskas-butcher-baker/
- https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/29/us/slayer-in-alaska-was-jailed-in-other-cases-judge-notes.html
- https://charleyproject.org/case/ida-rose-jacomet
- https://charleyproject.org/case/cora-mae-andersen
- https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ak-barbara-jackson-34-fairbanks-1-sept-1979.369329/
- https://dps.alaska.gov/getmedia/94435d52-ddc7-4003-b155-e779c1eed3fd/Evan
- https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1185dfak.html
- https://skdb.fandom.com/wiki/HANSEN_Robert_Christian#Confirmed_Victims
- https://charleyproject.org/case/roxane-easland
- https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3612dfak.html
- https://books.google.com/books?id=DIG_9oBssrAC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=lisa+futrell+alaska&source=bl&ots=fiuyAuDmoi&sig=ACfU3U3t_O4fnOvJiiV48cWdwgvEWJnxIg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjctqrez_SCAxVrRzABHTv5DBc4FBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=lisa%20futrell%20alaska&f=false
- https://uncovered.com/cases/judy-riddell
- https://charleyproject.org/case/klynn-love
Monday Jan 08, 2024
Monday Jan 08, 2024
In 1984 Kari Swenson was training for the upcoming Biatholon season. She was running at Ulerys Lake when two men attacked and kidnapped her. The "mountain men" were on the hunt for a woman and Kari had become their target.
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book called Victims: The Kari Swenson Story
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
October 29, 2022 10:52am dispatch receives a report from two hunters who had found an abandoned car on dead end service road off of HWY 20 about 30 miles east of Sweet Home, Oregon. When authorities ran the plates, they discovered the car was connected to a missing person report, and that missing person was Tammy Pitkin
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Press release on Zuberi
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/latest-on-missing-red-bluff-woman-tammy-pitkin-sister-says-she-was-likely-running-away?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550288664013
Monday Dec 11, 2023
Monday Dec 11, 2023
In 2017, a bicycle was found abandoned on Sol Duc Hot Springs Road in the Olympic National Forest. The bicycle belonged to Jacob Gray but he was nowhere to be found
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sources:
Npshistory.Com, npshistory.com/morningreport/incidents/olym.htm. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.
Nelson, Julie. “Gone without a Trace.” Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 9 Oct. 2020, tscpl.org/books-movies-music/gone-without-a-trace.
“Jacob Randall Gray.” The Charley Project, charleyproject.org/case/jacob-randall-gray. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.
Toay, Kara. “‘A Father’s Quest to Find His Son’ Professor Writes Book on Missing People.” The North Wind, thenorthwindonline.com/3879868/entertainment/a-fathers-quest-to-find-his-son-professor-writes-book-on-missing-people/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.
“Has Anyone Else Read This? I Really Loved This Book and Found It Incredibly Interesting and Covered a Great Deal of Cases and Situations I Had Never Heard of; Deals with Quite a Bit of Missing 411 Info and Work.” Reddit, www.reddit.com/r/Missing411/comments/lbcire/has_anyone_else_read_this_i_really_loved_this/. Accessed 16 Nov. 2023.
“Jacob Gray.” The Human Exception, 3 May 2021, www.thehumanexception.com/l/jacob-gray/.
“The Strange Death of the Cyclist Jacob Gray in the Olympic National Park.” StrangeOutdoors.Com, StrangeOutdoors.com, 12 Aug. 2021, www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/jacob-gray.
“The Strange Death of the Cyclist Jacob Gray in the Olympic National Park.” StrangeOutdoors.Com, StrangeOutdoors.com, 12 Aug. 2021, www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/jacob-gray.
Legacy.com, and Legacy. “Jacob Gray Obituary (1995 - 2018) - Olympic Mountains, CA - Santa Cruz Sentinel.” Legacy.Com, Legacy, 23 Aug. 2018, www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/name/jacob-gray-obituary?id=9430345.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cold_Vanish/Llq8DwAAQBAJ? hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT8&printsec=frontcover
Monday Nov 20, 2023
Monday Nov 20, 2023
In 2015 Daylenn Moke Pua set out to climb the Haiku Stairs or "Stairway to Heaven" and vanashed. What his family would find in one of his pictures would startle them and lead to even more questions
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https://www.khon2.com/news/search-suspended-for-missing-teen-hiker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150315172614/http://www.lizbarney.com/blog/moke-a-community-of-aloha
Youtube video on the stairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBiyNqCwpd4
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28290900/family-reports-seeing-possible-movement-from-missing-hawaii-hiker/
Monday Nov 13, 2023
Monday Nov 13, 2023
It was a warm summer night when seven-year-old Sophie Hook would camp out in the backyard garden with her cousins. At some point in the early morning hours, Sophie would be carried away by a stranger.
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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/sophie-hook-murder-gerry-davies-9679720
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sophie_Hook