If you're a fan of this genre and have been
consuming this type of content for some time, you've undoubtedly heard about some disappearances
that are just brain-breaking because of how impossible the circumstances are. There's just no shortage of instances of people
walking essentially just out of view, and then seemingly disappearing off
of the face of the Earth. So, in today's video, we're gonna go over
some of these impossible disappearances. As always, viewer discretion is advised. [music] In mid-July of 1981, 14-year-old Stacy Ann Arras, her father, George, and a small group of outdoor
enthusiasts, were horseback riding and camping their way through some of
Yosemite National Park's most rugged and scenic backcountry. Stacy and George have been looking forward
to the trip for months, and they planned on making the most of the excursion
by exploring, bonding, and just generally enjoying the beautiful scenery. The trip was relatively uneventful early on,
but that changed on the afternoon of July 17th, when Stacy decided to hike from their camping area
to Sunrise Lake, less than two miles away. George was too tired to join her, so instead,
an elderly man they were traveling with accompanied her about half of the way before he also decided he was too tired
and returned to camp. Stacy said goodbye and continued on alone, and that
was the last time anyone ever saw her. Stacy Ann Arras was born to George and Carol Arras
on September 29th, 1966. She was the youngest of four, and the family
lived in Saratoga, California, a few miles southwest of San Jose, which is
also conveniently just a few hours' drive from Yosemite National Park to the east. When Stacy turned 14, she and her father
began planning a father-daughter trip, and they officially settled on a multi-day trip along the
49-mile High Sierra Camp Loop. This trail was the best of both worlds
because it allowed them to travel through some of the park's
most beautiful remote areas, while also giving them the safety and comfort
of spending each night with other travelers in a moderately developed
camping area. After a normal day of riding on the afternoon of
July 17th, 1981, Stacy, her father and their guide, and the other
travelers finally arrived at the Tuolumne Meadows camping area, where they planned to get comfortable,
eat a big dinner, and then turn in early. At the same time, there were still plenty of daylight left
by the time they got settled in, and Stacy still had lots of energy. In this beautiful area, she just couldn't resist
the lure of the nearby Sunrise Lake, which was surrounded by forests
and alpine meadow, and Mounts Florence and Clark in the background. So while everyone else was relaxing
and discussing the day's trip, Stacy changed into fresh clothes, swapped her hiking boots
for sandals, and grabbed her camera. She may have assumed her father would join her, but by then, he was more interested in relaxing
and enjoying the scenery. He suggested that Stacy changed back into her boots
if she planned on hiking to the lake. But then, another man, 77-year-old Gerald Stuart,
said that he was also up for a short walk. So, he and Stacy set off down the trail
a few minutes later. But after walking just a couple hundred feet, Gerald ran out of energy and decided to head back. Stacy wanted to continue on, and campers
and guides actually watched as the two said goodbye to one another, and then
started walking the opposite direction. While Stacy was gone, other groups arrived
at the campground throughout the afternoon and into the early evening. And after a little while, when Stacy didn't
come back from the lake, George and Stuart started to worry. Panic hadn't quite set in yet, but as darkness fell, George and Gerald began searching the camp and asking the newly arrived hikers
if they'd seen anyone resembling Stacy. Then, when not a single person had seen
any sign of her, it started to clue in that Stacy might be in some trouble. Maybe she'd gotten hurt on the trail and was still there,
or maybe something worse had happened. Before long, George had told the rest of the group,
and a full search was launched. Thankfully, by then, there were quite a few others
at the campsite who were willing to fan out and look for Stacy. When small groups began walking down the trail
and toward the lake, it must have seemed like Stacy would've
found pretty quickly, and then everyone would laugh it off
as a misunderstanding. But then, searchers scoured the trail
and the lake area, blew whistles, and repeatedly shouted Stacy's name,
but there were still no sign of her. According to her father, she had been
carrying binoculars and wearing earrings and an ankle bracelet. But the only item that turned up was a camera lens
found in a wooded area she must have passed through on her way to the lake. This initial search lasted well into the night,
and soon enough, some of the searches started to think that
she might have been abducted or attacked by a wild animal. Unfortunately, no signs of a struggle were found either
which made the search even weirder. They also started to consider the possibility that
she could have drowned in the lake, fallen into a hidden crevice, or panicked
after realizing she was lost. If she had panicked, she might have made the all-too-common
mistake of trying to hike her way to safety instead of staying where she was
and letting rescuers find her. Then, in her panic, she could have gotten much more lost
than she otherwise would have. Whatever the case, it was a long night for her father. The following morning, the National Park Service
joined the search, and everyone was hopeful that with all their expertise,
Stacy would be found in no time. Over the next few days, nearly 150 searchers
converged on the area, about half of which were Mountain Rescue Association
volunteers, who collectively had decades of experience
tracking people down who had gotten missing in wilderness areas. Scent dogs and helicopters were eventually called in too,
but even though they went over a five-square mile area around the campground in Sunrise Lake,
nothing new was ever found. The case was so perplexing that one volunteer
apparently said that it seemed like Stacy had just disappeared
off the face of the Earth. And as the days dragged on, everyone knew that the odds
of finding her alive were becoming increasingly slim. In the meantime, the Park Service had a good idea
of who was in the area since visitors and guides were required to register
and obtain backcountry permits. They questioned everyone they could
and displayed posters of Stacy along the trail and around the campground. But tragically, after 12 days, the search
was officially called off. By mid-October, the trails were largely empty,
and with the wintry weather settling in, park officials and rescuers assumed
they'd find Stacy's remains the following spring after the big thaw. Unfortunately, that wouldn't be the case either. Investigators are often inundated by questionable tips
and supposed sightings when people go missing, and Stacy's case
is no exception. In fact, park service investigators
got calls from multiple tipsters who claimed to have seen Stacy in Western states like
Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado. And as is often the case with these types of cases, a number of theories have arisen despite
the lack of physical evidence. Maybe the most likely is that Stacy fell
into a pit or crevice, or got lost and hiked into a remote area
of the 750,000-acre park, and then tragically died of dehydration or hypothermia. Then, there's also the animal attack theory. Park officials estimated that between 300
and 500 black bears live in Yosemite, but officially, nobody's ever been killed or
seriously injured by a bear in the park, so this theory isn't particularly likely. Officials also looked at the possibility of
a mountain lion attack, because after all, mountain lions do
occasionally attack humans. But if Stacy had been attacked by one
or any animal for that matter, there almost certainly would've been blood,
torn clothing, or signs of struggle. And of course, the final theory is that Stacy could have
been abducted or maybe even run away. Each of these theories doesn't seem
particularly likely either because of how remote the area is. In any case, whatever happened to Stacy Ann Arras, she may have been within a stone's throw of the searchers
in the early part of the search, which makes things even more frustrating. And as a result of this, it's often asked why
she hadn't responded to rescuers' shouts or whistles if she'd been
in such close proximity to them. The fact is that experienced search
and rescue personnel experienced this phenomenon all the time. In the wilderness, unfortunately, sound rarely
behaves like we think it should. In any case, adding another layer of mystery
to her disappearance, David Paulides of Missing 411 fame, apparently filed
a number of freedom of information requests with the Park Service to get information on Stacy's case,
but each of his requests was denied. In the Park Service's defense, they've made a
PDF file available online for anyone interested in looking into the case, but the file only includes a few official documents,
and otherwise, it's mostly just old forest service maps,
grainy photographs, and newspaper clippings that don't shed
any new light on the case. Stacy is the only person to have ever disappeared
from the Sunrise Lake area. Jason Jolkowski was born in Grand Island, Nebraska
on June 24th, 1981. He and his family moved to Omaha a few years later and settled into pleasant and relatively uneventful lives. As a kid, Jason was shy and quiet, and he
often became disoriented and overwhelmed in noisy, crowded,
and stressful situations. He also had speech and learning disabilities that made
communicating and concentrating difficult, but he was responsible and hardworking and was
clearly intelligent despite everything else. He went on to attend Omaha Benson High School
and enrolled in the broadcasting program at a community college in a nearby city
shortly after graduating. During this time, he also had a job at a pizza and pasta
restaurant just a few miles from his house. As with many people his age, Jason wasn't exactly
sure where his life was headed. He always thought he'd make a good DJ because it would allow him to connect with people
without getting too personal. And then, in a lucky break, despite being
shy and reserved, Jason landed a part-time DJ gig
at the campus radio station. At the same time, however, he was considering
going in a completely different direction and thought about enrolling in a seminary
in St. Louis. But then, by the summer of 2001, it was clear
that he might not get to even enroll in either choice if he didn't make enough money
to pay for spring tuition. So, until he decided between broadcasting
and theology, he'd just have to make the most of his summer vacation
by pinching pennies and working as many hours as he could
at the restaurant. Ironically, that's exactly what he was trying to do
the day he disappeared. It must have seemed like just another day
when the now 19-year-old Jason woke up in the morning of Wednesday,
June 13th, 2001. Jason was scheduled to start work
at the restaurant at 5:30 PM, but with the exception of helping his brother with a few
household chores, his schedule was wide open. That changed a few hours later
when his manager called and asked if he could come into work at noon. And since Jason needed the extra money
and liked helping out whenever he could, he agreed to go in early. Unfortunately, his car was in the shop
and his parents were at work, so he figured he'd just walked to work that day instead. It was nice enough outside, and he'd made
that walk plenty of times. But then, as a thank you for coming in early, his boss arranged for a coworker to pick him up
on her way to the restaurant. Giving directions wasn't one of Jason's strong points, and after a few failed attempts, he agreed to meet the girl
in front of Omaha Benson High School. The school was just four blocks from Jason's house, and since the girl had graduated from the school too,
she knew exactly where it was. At about 10:45 AM, Jason and his brother dragged their
empty trashcans from the street into the garage, and while they were doing this, a neighbor
saw them together and noticed that Jason was wearing a baseball cap,
a Chicago Cubs shirt, and black pants. He was also carrying, not wearing,
his red restaurant uniform. This was the last known sighting of Jason. After saying goodbye to his brother, he walked down
their driveway and then toward the school. Just a few blocks away, his coworker got to the school
and sat there for a little while before starting to think that maybe Jason
had gone to the wrong place. After waiting for a little while longer,
and with their shifts coming up, she drove to a nearby gas station and called his
house to see if he was on the way. Jason's brother, Michael, picked up the phone,
and as a joke, pretended to be Jason, but eventually told her that his brother had left
and should be there any second. But Jason never showed up, and eventually, the girl
called her boss to ask what she should do. He told her to wait for a few more minutes
and then drive to work herself if he didn't arrive because her shift
was about to start. While she was waiting, the manager also called
Jason's house and spoke to Michael, but again, all he could tell him was that
his brother had already left. The weird thing was that Jason was a lot less impulsive
than many teenagers, and missing a shift like that was completely
out of character for him. But alarm bells didn't really start to go off
until early that evening when he still hadn't shown up to work or back home. Eventually, Michael heard back from the restaurant
that Jason still hadn't shown up, and he hadn't returned home either, so Jason's parents both left work early
to start to look for him. They began by covering and retracing the distance
between their home and the school, as well as the route he would've taken if he'd ended up
walking the entire way to work. While they were searching, they just had this feeling
that something terrible had happened to him. It was so unlike Jason to do something like this. He was a responsible Christian homebody
with a number of learning disabilities. On top of that, he'd never even tried drugs
or alcohol as far as they knew. Jason was also single according to his parents, so unless there was a significant other he managed
to keep under the radar, it seemed unlikely that it had something to do
with a breakup or something like that. Then, tragically, despite their concerns, Jason's parents didn't report him missing
until the following morning because they incorrectly believed that they had to wait
24 hours before notifying the police. Then, even though the police had been officially notified,
they didn't exactly spring into action. Instead of beginning the search right away, they waited nearly a week to launch a
full-scale investigation, maybe because they thought that Jason
was just another teenage runaway who would eventually turn up. The police did eventually question and ultimately
clear Jason's coworkers, including his supervisor and the girl who was
supposed to give him a ride to work that day. They also questioned his friends, who also
they had no idea where he was or what had happened to him. Interestingly, many said that they hadn't seen
or talked to Jason in a few weeks. Then, a search of Jason's room revealed that
he hadn't taken any belongings with him and there was no sign of him when investigators checked
the footage from the high school's security cameras. Pretty quickly, the police were almost completely
out of options for places to look for a lead. They even happened to check the state's
sex offender registry, which did reveal an offender who lived
on the same street as Jason. But police questioned and searched the home
of this person, and nothing came of it either. There was also a young man who lived
about a block away, who neighbors were suspicious of, when he moved out
shortly after the disappearance. But again, no connection was ever made, and it's unclear
if police even looked at this lead. Another red flag that's led to speculation
that something bad happened to Jason was that he only had between $40
and $60 in cash on him when he left for the high school that day. So if he disappeared voluntarily, he couldn't have gotten very far without
some other source of money. He also had about $650 in the bank, but since his
disappearance, it's never been touched. There's also never been any activity
on his cell phone account, and nobody's ever tried to pick up his car
from the repair shop. In addition to that, Jason was supposed to
start his new DJ job a week after he went missing, but he never showed up
for that either. Unsurprisingly, the Omaha Police
received multiple tips from people who claimed to have seen Jason. One supposed sighting was reported to have
taken place at the nearby state park, but police were never able to confirm that it was Jason
or if the tip was even authentic. Eventually, the tip stopped coming in too,
and Jason's case officially went cold, which is kind of insane when you consider
that he vanished in just a short four-block distance from his house
to the high school. Now, more than two decades later,
the Omaha Police Department has officially labeled Jason's case a homicide. And in the absence of anything concrete,
a number of theories have emerged. The first theory is that Jason was abducted,
either by person or people that he knew, or somebody he didn't know. It's worth pointing out that Jason was 19 years old
and around six feet tall and 170 pounds, which is definitely not someone who would
be easy to forcibly abduct. However, if Jason knew and trusted his abductors,
he may not have put up a fight, especially if they played the sympathy card
by convincing him that they needed his help. It's impossible to say exactly what happened,
but it's at least conceivable to think that Jason's learning disabilities, introverted nature,
and faith, may have put him in a particularly vulnerable position. Another interesting aspect of Jason's case is that another 19-year-old Omaha man
named Samuel Sherman disappeared a block away under similar circumstances,
just a month later on July 20th, 2001. Samuel left his home in the middle of the day to
attend a previously scheduled job interview, but unlike Jason, he actually made it
to his destination. Then, after the interview, he was never seen again. In addition to being the same age as Jason,
the timing and proximity of the two disappearances is uncanny
to say the least. But whereas Jason's disappearance
was all over the news, Samuel got far less media coverage, and much less
is known about his background. It's worth noting that he does have a missing person's card
on the Omaha Crime Stoppers website. Tragically, it's right below the entry for Jason's case. If there is a silver lining to this tragedy, it's that
Jason's parents use their son's disappearance to make positive changes in how
missing person cases are handled. Because of the frustrating lack of evidence and answers, they founded a nonprofit organization called
The Jason Project, aimed at promoting awareness of
missing persons cases. The hope is that increased media coverage
will produce more tips and leads that could ultimately help some families
reunite with their missing loved ones. In early May of 2008, an 18-year-old Colorado man
named Josh Maddux, casually informed his sister he was going for a walk. Josh was still coping with a tragedy that had
rocked his family two years before, but on that particular day,
nothing seemed out of place. Josh often took long walks in the woods
to clear his head, but this time, he didn't come back, and his family
would never see him alive again. Joshua Vernon Maddux was born on
March 9th, 1990. He and his two sisters grew up in
Woodland Park, Colorado, which is about 20 miles northwest of
Colorado Springs, and just a few miles west of the
U.S. Air Force Academy. With a population of less than 8,000 people,
Woodland Park is a tight-knit community, surrounded by more than a million acres of
Pike National Forest. Josh and his siblings' childhoods were almost perfect
by most accounts until his parents separated, and he and his sisters, Ruth and Kate, moved in
with their father, Mike. By the time he was a teenager, Josh was lanky,
long-haired and generally well-liked. And nearly everyone who knew him described him
as a free spirit, who was also a good student
and a talented musician with a witty and spontaneous sense of humor. On the surface, Josh appeared to be a happy, hardworking,
and carefree guy, but under the surface, he may have been
far more troubled and distraught than anyone thought when he went missing in 2008. It's for this reason that Josh's older sister, Kate,
thought nothing of it when he walked out of the family home
on May 8th. After all, Josh was a nature-lover,
and Kate always suspected that the long walks he frequently took
in and around the forest were just his preferred method of self-therapy. Up until then, Josh had always returned
within a few hours, so it wasn't really alarming when he hadn't
shown up by sundown. Then, he still wasn't back by the time his father
and sisters turned in for the night, and the following morning, his bed was still empty. By then, he'd been missing for much of the
previous day and an entire night, and his dad and sisters started to wonder
if he was okay. Still, their thought was that maybe he decided to
camp in the woods by himself or spend the night at a friend's house without
bothering to tell anyone. Then, as the days passed, though, without any sign
of him, his family started calling his friends, visiting his known hangouts, and checking
local homeless shelters where they thought he could have ended up
if he had a breakdown. Unfortunately, after several days of searching,
there were still no sign of him. And so, on May 13th, five days after
Josh had disappeared, his father officially reported him as missing
to the local police. Now, waiting nearly a week to report a
missing person may seem odd, but since the death of his older brother two years prior, everyone in the family had sort of come
to an understanding that things were different. Under the circumstances, it wasn't uncommon
for each of them to just want to be alone for a while. Official and unofficial searches were conducted
in and around Woodland Park, but by the two-week mark, not a single trace
of Josh had turned up. During which time, the local police department
was criticized for taking a nonchalant attitude toward the case.
But Josh was technically an adult, and there's nothing illegal about disappearing
when foul play isn't involved. Meanwhile, his family continued to hold out hope that they'd wake up one morning
and find him sleeping in his bed. His older sister, Kate, couldn't help but worry
about her brother, but at the same time, conversations they'd had
prior to his disappearance, gave her some hope that he might be alive and well. Josh told Kate on more than one occasion that he was
destined for some great adventure, and that he may have to disappear for a while
to set things in motion. With that in mind, Kate thought that it was also possible that he'd simply hooked up with a new band
and set out on tour with them. Everyone also thought that it was possible he just couldn't deal with the memories
he had in Woodland Park, and figured that the only solution was
to get a fresh start somewhere else. Wherever Josh was, Kate hoped that he'd show up
a few years later with a wife and kids, and that everything would go back to the way
it had been before May 8th. It's easy to see how this could be seen
as wishful thinking, but Kate may not have been that far off base. Josh didn't run with a bad crowd. He didn't appear to have any problems
with drugs or alcohol, and there was no evidence that a crime
had been committed. Josh's father, on the other hand though, wasn't sure if he'd ever been able to put
his brother's death behind him. In fact, he'd once stated that his brother's death
had sort of pushed Josh over the edge. Everyone also wondered whether the chronic depression
that his brother suffered from also affected Josh, and forced him
down the same path. Whatever the case, Josh's missing person file
remained open, pending new evidence that seemed increasingly unlikely
as time dragged on. Nearly half a century before Josh disappeared, a local man named Chuck Murphy purchased
a piece of land in Woodland Park that had once been home to the infamous
Thunderhead Ranch. This ranch was originally owned by a Swedish
immigrant known as Big Bert Bergstrom, and was well known for the amount of
alcohol that got drunk there, and the gambling and prostitution
that also took place there. According to local legends, Big Bert had been
arrested on multiple occasions, but the charges were always dropped. Rumor has it that his clientele included
local law enforcement and members of the legal community who did
everything they could to get him off to prevent their involvement with the ranch
to be made public. Decades later, the new owner, Chuck Murphy,
built a cabin surrounded by pine trees, and his brother lived there up until 2005. After that, Chuck used the cabin as a storage shed, but without regular upkeep, it became pretty rundown. Then, with real estate prices on the rise in 2015, Chuck decided to tear it down to make way
for several dozen full-size homes. At 80 years old, Chuck wasn't up
for doing the work himself, so he called in a local demolition crew
to take care of it for him. They showed up one day with an excavator,
and the job got off to a quick start, but things took an unexpected turn when the crew saw something in an
exposed section of the chimney. Chuck waved frantically to the excavator operator before wading into the rubble to take a closer look. And to his horror, he was staring at what appeared
to be a decomposed body in the fetal position, wearing only a thermal T-shirt. Even more horrifyingly, the position
of the body indicated that whoever it was had attempted to crawl down
the chimney headfirst. Chuck called the police immediately, and they arrived
with the county coroner shortly after. Although the body in the chimney was
badly mummified, after it was taken to the coroner's office
for an autopsy, they were able to use dental records to identify
it as Josh Maddux. At this point, it had been several years
since his disappearance, and nine since the loss of his brother, which had
to have just been crushing for the family. And although finally knowing where Josh was
had to have given them some closure, the circumstances of his death
were just so weird otherwise. When the initial shock wore off, Kate guessed that
it might have been a simple matter of Josh letting his curiosity
get the better of him. Maybe he was just looking for a quiet place where
he could be alone with his thoughts. Whatever his motivations, it seemed that Josh
overestimated the size of the chimney, got stuck, and died. On the other hand, more than a few locals found it odd
that the cabin had never been searched, even though it was less than a mile
from Josh's home. In particular, what Chuck found most puzzling, was that nobody should have been able to get
into the chimney in the first place because he'd capped it with a heavy-duty
rebar mesh to keep animals like squirrels and raccoons out. In his official report, the coroner noted that Josh
was found in the fetal position with his head below his torso and legs. In other words, he must have entered headfirst
from the roof of the cabin because the chimney was too narrow for him
to have turned around once inside. The report also stated that he'd been naked
except for a thermal shirt, and that his hips were dislocated from their sockets. In addition, there weren't any signs of trauma
like bullet holes or stab wounds. None of Josh's bones were broken,
and toxicology tests showed that there weren't any drugs in his system
at the time of his death. Eventually, the coroner concluded that Josh probably
died from hypothermia or dehydration, and that his death was accidental. Either way, whatever ultimately killed Josh,
being inverted and trapped in such a confined space,
would've made for a particularly slow and unpleasant last few moments,
however long they lasted. At least on the surface, the coroner's report seemed
to put an end to the mystery once and for all, but not everyone was convinced that the case
was so cut and dry. Following the ruling, Chuck Murphy
reminded everyone that he installed rebar over the chimney
decades before. The coroner countered by pointing out that it could
have been rusted away over the years, or that someone could have removed it. It's not clear exactly what happened to the rebar gate, but there's no mention of it in crime scene reports, and it isn't visible in any of the photos
taken at the site. One thing Chuck Murphy and the coroner
did agree on at least, was that it was obviously gone on the day
that Josh crawled into the chimney. But rebar aside, additional evidence found at the cabin made the accidental death ruling seem a bit premature. Like, for example, a breakfast bar that had been
built into the firewall had been torn free and dragged in front
of the fireplace, effectively blocking off the chimney from the inside. This had obviously been done intentionally,
but by who and why? Then, there was also the position of Josh's body. What people couldn't figure out was why
anyone would attempt to shimmy down and narrow chimney headfirst. Going in legs down seemed to make more sense
because upon reaching the bottom, you'd be able to land on your feet instead
of your hands or head. Adding more controversy to the case,
the coroner remarked off-record that he thought it would've taken two people to
position Josh's body the way he was found. Then, there was also the matter of the thermal shirt
Josh had been wearing, which wasn't weird on its own, except for the fact
that the rest of his clothes were found inside the cabin,
folded neatly by the fireplace. This meant that he'd either been in the cabin before
and had folded the clothes himself, or that someone else had folded them for him. In light of these findings, the coroner even considered
changing his original ruling, but he ultimately stuck to accidental death because he had little more than speculation to go on. The police and coroner's office received multiple tips
after Josh's disappearance, and although they continued coming in long after
his body was discovered, public interest in the case eventually waned, and authority seemed confident that
foul play wasn't involved. For the most part, these tips were dismissed
until one name kept getting mentioned. A man initially referred to only as Andy, and a number of tips was later identified
as Andrew Richard Newman. Like Josh, he'd been a friendly and well-liked musician
who lived in Woodland Park, and although Josh and Andy weren't friends
during high school, those who knew them said that they were
both a lot alike and that they'd struck up a friendship after graduation. The weird part is that Andy eventually left the area and then went on to commit a
multi-state crime spree. And when Josh's body was found, he was
serving time in a Texas prison. Andy had previously been incarcerated in Oregon,
in Washington too, but an incident in Northern New Mexico ultimately threw the cause of Josh's death
into serious doubt. As the story goes, one evening, Andy visited a home shared by a caretaker
and the disabled man he lived with. It's not clear whether the men were
drinking or using drugs, but the caretaker excused himself to take a shower,
and by the time he returned, the disabled man had been stabbed to death,
and Andy was nowhere to be found. He was eventually tracked down and arrested,
but he didn't confess to the murder. However, he did claim to have recently killed a
woman in Taos, New Mexico, after which he stuffed her body into a barrel. The police would even find a woman in a
barrel and Taos, but Andy wasn't charged with her murder because
police already had a suspect in custody. He also wasn't charged with the disabled man's murder because the caretaker was killed in a
bar fight a few months before and couldn't make an official statement,
and provide any evidence of Andy's guilt. But despite Andy's criminal past and history of violence, the police couldn't place him anywhere near the cabin
at or around the time of Josh's disappearance. In the end, Josh's death will probably always be
considered accidental, at least officially. With that said, the true ramifications of his
brother's death and his own mental state will never be fully known. And in addition, the out-of-place breakfast bar,
the clothes neatly folded by the fireplace, Josh's position in the chimney, and his known
association with at least one dangerous character, will always cast some doubt on his mysterious
disappearance and death. Hello everyone. Thank you all so much for watching. I'd love to hear your theories down
in the comments about what you think happened
to the people in these stories. This video is part of a series,
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