(dramatic string music) - Three cars. (music intensifying) - [Cameraman] No eyes at all on Doug. No bubbles. I have no bubbles on Doug. - [Jared] I have no bubbles either. - [Cameraman] Wait, do
we have bubbles at all? Do we have any bubbles? - Today, our cold case brings you to the beautiful Pacific Northwest, right here in Salem, Oregon, where we'll be in search
of Brian Joseph Page, who disappeared January 12th, of 1975. The party that took place
here over on State Street, downtown Salem, Oregon. We know there was LSD
involved at that party. Brian, along with his
friend David were there. David was high on LSD.
David left the party. There were some friends
of Brian still there that told Brian to go after
David to make sure he was okay. And that was the last
sighting of Brian that exists. - The vehicle in question
today that we are searching for is a 1962 Volkswagen Beetle. At first, I was a little nervous
when we started this story because Doug and I, we
have pulled a couple of Volkswagens out of the Portland area. We went back to those videos and the one particular
that was in question, come to find out it was a
'66 Volkswagen we pulled out, and we're looking for a '62. Now there's gonna be a lot that we're gonna share with
you today with this story. We're dealing with
vehicles that were stolen. We're dealing with
potential serial killers that were passing through the area. We're gonna get it into the lab right now, bring you into our search radius, and once we're out on the water, Doug's gonna tell you a lot
more about the story today. (dramatic music) - [Narrator] For families who have all but given up on finding their loved ones, this team is a last hope. (music intensifies) To a new phenomenon, civilian divers cracking
cold cases for free. - Bringing you guys deep
into our search grid and what we plan today in our
search for Brian Joseph Page, we are starting here,
where we're at right now, Wallace Marine Park. Now, this is the city of Salem right here. We know Brian Joseph
Page disappeared in 1975 from down here. Now, Wallace Marine Park, where we're at, has also been the main park boat ramp in the Salem region
since Brian disappeared. We're gonna start here, Jared and I both, we're gonna put a boat in, we're gonna make our way north. We expect there to be some cars out here. Jared and I have always
wanted to scan this river. As in, you know, as you guys know, we found a ton of cars in
Portland, you know, over 50 cars. And we've always wanted to
come down here and scan. And we're very optimistic. We're gonna find quite a few cars here. You know, I told Jared,
you guys heard earlier, we're gonna find 10 cars. I don't know, I'm just guessing, but we think we're gonna
find a bunch of cars. Needless to say, we're gonna make our way from here north on the Willamette River. We're both gonna be scanning. We're gonna make our way up through Salem, covering the entire width of the river, and hopefully come up
here to our location, two, that we've marked already. Location two now is Kaiser Rapids Park, which is about eight-nine miles north of where we're starting this morning. I'm very confident that today we're gonna uncover some mysteries that are lurking beneath
the Willamette River here in the capital of Oregon; Salem, Oregon. Let's get to it. Let's get the boats in the water and let's get the scan. (dramatic string music) - The river was flooding. The local fire team comes down and they pull logs that get stuck underneath the bridge here, and they pull them off. Well, what ended up happening, and there's some footage that we'll splice in
right here from the news, but as they were pulling one off, the boat got cockeyed a little bit. It pulled the back of it down, and once the water hit the back, it just sunk the entire boat. And you see the sheriff's or the fire guy, he's just like all swimming off the boat. And because it had that rope
that was attached to the logs, like, they pretty much knew where it was. It just kind of sunk
the entire boat there. And then they went back,
you know, a few weeks or a few months later
and recovered the boat. - So the rumor, you know, rumor has it, they couldn't find the boat. - Really? - They couldn't find the boat because somehow the boat ended up several hundred yards away. Somehow. They said they couldn't find
it at first, supposedly. - Right. And it was like, how come
you couldn't find it? It's supposed to be right there, but it wasn't, it was... - But they also could not go
in for the boat right away because as you see from the clips, the river was ripping. I mean, it's one of those things that we wouldn't even be diving
in at that moment in time. - What are the theories that have been brought into play based on this cold case so far? You know, we're working
with a case from 1975, so you have a lot of time
for there to be speculation, build up on, you know,
people trying to fill in the what ifs, the blanks, you name it. There's a serial killer
out of South Carolina that has admitted to killing
a teenager here in Oregon, the same year Brian disappeared. Is that what happened? But what happened to the vehicle? And what happened to Brian? Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins
is the serial killer that is supposedly responsible for killing a teenager here in Oregon. He admitted to it. He wrote it in his memoirs
while he was in prison. So that's one of the theories that we're working with on this case. Outside of that, we have Brian at a party. Now Brian lives in
Portland, where I'm from, which is about an hour
north here of Salem, which is the state capitol. Brian, David, his sister and a friend, came down here to Salem
that night to a party. While at the party, you know, they were partying hard. There was some LSD, there
was some alcohol, some pot. Brian's friend David was on LSD. He was tripping. He left the party. The people at the party were
concerned, like, you know, David shouldn't be wandering the streets. So they convinced Brian
to get into his car, which we believe Brian was on LSD as well, just not experiencing the
kind of trip David was. So they convinced Brian
to go check on David, try to go find him. So Brian hopped in his 1962 Volkswagen bug to go look for David. That was the last sighting ever of Brian. Now the next day, shortly thereafter, David, you know, admitted,
you know, yes, I was on LSD, I don't remember anything from that night. However, later that night,
David was arrested here in Salem at the dealership for stealing a car. Why was he trying to steal a car? I mean, who knows what people do and why they do it when they're on LSD? Obviously. It's not gonna make sense. And there was, they put him under hypnosis to try to see if they could
bring back his memory. 'Cause they're thinking that maybe David did something to Brian. And that's a plausible... That's a plausible assumption. We have a person that's vanished. The last known location
was at a party with David. David left, mind you, however, he had, Brian had
clear direct intentions of going to find David and he disappeared. So it's accurate for us to theorize the fact that he did find David. Maybe David did something to him. I think that's probably the
most likely scenario in this, is that David unknowingly
probably murdered his friend high off a trip. Whether he thought he was an alien or a monster or something, who knows? There's a lot of who horrible
LSD murder stories out there. You guys know all about 'em. But long story short, David
didn't remember anything. So David's not a help. David was never charged
or arrested for anything. And nobody knows anything. Brian literally vanished, fell off the face of the earth
right here in Salem, Oregon on State Street, right behind those trees right over there, him and his 1962 Volkswagen Bug. That's what we're searching for today, that 1962 Volkswagen Bug, at the moment. Like we are less than a mile away from that party where
he was at back in 1975. (anticipatory string music) A lot of the cases that
we work, that are older, you know, we have to assume
that a lot of the things that exist now is all new
construction, newer construction. Bridges were torn down. Ferries don't exist, and
boat ramps don't exist. There's new ones and other places. So coming into this, we were
really worried that a lot of the boat ramps here may have changed. So we needed to really figure
out where the boat ramps were and the river access points and so forth. But the boat ramps here
have not changed in Salem. This park has been here forever. My father-in-law has lived
here in Salem since 1975, since the year Brian went missing. And Wallace Marine Park has
been the number one park here in downtown Salem area. However, my father-in-law, Mike, told me that the downtown streets,
a lot of them dead ends right into the river. And there was a lot of
like, dirt road area where it was really easy to access the downtown portion of the river. Really easy by a vehicle. So we have that whole side
of downtown over there where Jared is, Jared's right there. So Jared's already on that side. That could possibly be a high-target area. The Wallace Marine boat
ramp has had no cars. Like I figured we, like
Jared said a few minutes ago, like we are amazed that we come down here and there's not one single car out here. It is pretty shallow right here. And the water does get down
really, really low in this area. The most cryptic part about this case is we're searching for a
young man, 16 years old, who had his entire life
ahead of him, full of hope. Bright young man, just vanished, fell off
the face of the earth. That's sad. It's very sad anytime somebody vanishes, but being 16 years old
is, it's just tough. Obviously, you know, we
coming into a case this old is really hard for us to track down family or friends and so forth. We're just, you know, I know that mom has passed away and his family was just
really grief-stricken. Took it really hard. (dramatic music) Not a car, not a car. Not a car... You know, and then inside of me, I'm like, come on, gimme a car. Gimme a car, gimme a car. Show me a car. See, this river's flowing north. So if a car comes in here, it's gonna be from the boat
ramp down 25 yards or so. Oh, we got two cars. Three cars. (boat puttering) We got three cars. First pass through, I got three. Copy? (walkie talkie beeping) - [Jared] Yeah, makes sense. - That second car looks like it possibly could be a Volkswagen bug. (walkie talkie beeping) Three cars, we have action. Hey Jared? I'm gonna run up here
and read these signs. I guess there's like some historical signs and stuff up there. - [Jared] Okay! - All right, let's go see
what signs are up here. This is all definitely really old stuff. This boat ramp's definitely new. Not to say that this hasn't
been obviously redone. Ah, there we go. Willamette River flooding information. This is in regards to the floods. One of the worst floods in
recorded history occurred in 1861 when the Willamette River
overflowed its banks destroying nearby farms
and food processing and manufacturing plants. The great flood devastated
the valley's economy and resulted in the
deaths of several people. But it also brought the
valley settlers together as a community and produced
some notable acts of courage. And goes on to list those notable acts. Show some pictures here of the Oregon National Guard being in town and the Albertson here being underwater. Alright, is he recording sonar? - [Jared] Yes. He's got it recording. - Alright, cool. - [Jared] Just double
checking. Actively recording. - Alright, cool. It's so
hard to see that screen. We need some-
- [Jared] Shades? - I know some auxiliary
screen-mirroring yacht units on this side to, we'll get 'em. We saw this case right here, and we're gonna get us some, you're gonna give me the monitor I want on the back of these screens. - [Jared] If you solve the case, I will get you whatever
monitor you want, okay? - Pressure is on. Jeez. You basically tell me
I have to do something no one else in the world
has been able to do. And then you gift me something. Geez. What a friend. Just tell me no! - [Jared] I'm not telling you no, I'm telling you yes. I always tell you yes, you just gotta figure it out. All right, so there's the first one. - Young kid Jo- - Wait! I think I have two
on the left here, still. And I've got the one on
the right, right there. Then, let's go search for more. Let's go mark that one. All right, so there's the one that I have the line on right there. - [Jared] That's behind you. - [Doug] That's right there. And then we're coming up from
the second one right here. So we have a second one right here that we're right over the top of it. Oh yeah. Chevy Cavalier. Alright, drop down here. 10 feet now. Gotta keep going. We're going down to 25
feet, is where we're goin'. (rope whistling) You should be right on top of it. Chevy GTO. - No, it'd be all-
- Yeah, got a wheel. Got the wheel. Got the wheel, buddy. There you go. Alright, let's see if
we can find some more. - That's it that's all three. I didn't pass another car. There's not four cars in here. There's another four car in
here, then Popeye's a punk. - I'm gonna find a fourth one. I'm gonna find you a fourth one right now. - [Doug] I hope you do. I really do. - A beetle. - [Doug] If you find a
fourth car, I tell you what, I will get you one of those
fancy monitors back here. - Thank you. - [Doug] With your money. (men chuckling) - [Doug] Sounds like a plan. - Alright, so we'll
check out this back eddy. Another car would've came in and floated and back eddied up there? - [Doug] Oh no, not at all. - The Mazda, the Mazda was back eddy, up towards the bridge. - [Doug] Yeah, but not
right here. Not right here. I did not scan anything. It
was just real clean here. - It is clean. - [Doug] It is real clean. - Those cars just popped up. - [Doug] Yeah, shh. Yeah, it was like one, two... Ah, those buoys makes me think that they're all the same car. - Nope, they're not. - We'll see when they come by. - In fact, I'll take,
oh, so you're trying, you're trying to win the bet by sabotaging my son right here. - Watch out. Watch out. - Look how they're just
like in a line, too. Just boom, boom, boom. - Here, you put all three
buoys on the same car. - I did! Come on! - There's three to the left. So there's all three. 1, 2, 3. - Where's your fourth? Come on. - I don't have a fourth yet, - I'm looking for it, boy. (boat puttering) You know, at the end of the
day, these are easy pulls. Like you wanna call Jimmy
down and just yank 'em? I mean, regardless of whether there's someone in there or not. Yeah, that one's a little
bit more difficult. I think that one's still lined up. We can pull that with his rotator. We don't have to float him. (boat puttering) (walkie talkie beeping) (phone ringing) - [Debbie] Hello, it's Debbie Epstein. - I thought you told me there
were no cars in the river! - [Debbie] Where'd you find it? - I got three cars down
here for you today. - [Debbie] Where at? - Down here at the Kaiser boat ramp. - [Debbie] Right at the boat ramp? - Yeah. - [Debbie] Perfect, I'm gonna,
I'm off the water, of course. I'm gonna send Kaiser
PD down there to you. - All right, sounds good. - [Debbie] Bet. Obviously let me know if
you guys need anything. - Alright.
- [Debbie] Once he gets there. Alright, thanks.
- Thanks, bye. - [Debbie] Bye. - All right, Kaiser PDs gonna come down. - Yeah, they don't have a dive team so... - Yeah.
- We'll be diving on them. - And then somehow we gotta
get around to pick up the RV. - Yeah, so...
- Well you're gonna be here a while playing with PD. Should I just take one
of these boats back and- - Yeah, yeah.
- Buzz up there? - Yeah. - It's gonna take me 40
minutes to get back up there. - Make sure you take the
one with fuel because... - Yeah. - When I turned around and
tried to come back to you, oh, its, you're gonna feel it. You're gonna be full
throttle the whole way. - Okay, sounds good. I'll do that. And then yeah, I'll probably see you in about an hour, hour and 10 or so. And you'll be able to play with PD and whatever else happening around here. (anticipatory music) - How's it going guys? Good afternoon. - Good, how are you? What's going on today? - My name's Doug, I'm with Adventures with Purpose. - Hey, nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you man. - Yeah. Yeah. Are you at all familiar with what we do? - Yeah, little bit.
- Just a little bit. - You found three? - Yeah, there's three right here. Our di- - We know about two. . - Okay. Alright. - So the third one's showing up at some point with about
15, 20 feet off the end of the dock? - Yep. Yep, okay. So you guys do know about two of them? - Yeah, we know about two, not the third. - Okay, all right, cool. Cool. So I'm gonna dive here when it gets here, I'll dive on them and see what they are. And typically we don't call you guys until I know I have a
plate and all of that. We were seeing if
Hutchinson wanted to call up and he's like, "No, I'll
call them right away." - Yeah. - So that's the process. That's where we're at with everything. - Okay, yeah. - And then typically it's
Marion County or Polk County, that'll be in charge of the recovery. - Okay, okay. - 'Cause it's in the river. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool, cool. - Did you find 'em with sonar
or did you actually dive? - Sonar. Yeah, I have three buoys on them now. So when the dive unit gets here I'll, they're only 20 feet deep. So I'll dive 'em and
see what they are, yeah. - Nice. - I know you guys are probably busy. If you gimme a card, I'll call you when we find
out what they are or... What do you guys want to take place? - If you can get the
plates so we can run 'em to make sure that they're not stolen. - Okay. - And if you're able to figure out, I mean if you're able,
when you're down there, I don't know what visibility is. - Yeah. - If you're able to see
what type of car it is. - Yeah. - So we can confirm the plate with the make and model of cars. - Okay. It's typically, my objective
when I get down there is to obviously identify license plate or any other make model emblems and then do assessment of the vehicle. That way if it does belong to something, we know what we need to do, recover it and we're not blind or any of that. So it's, I'll have all that information then, when I get back up. So that was, Kaiser PD came out. They did make us aware that what's in the river is actually Marion County's
jurisdiction, which is normal. You have cities that control the land around the waters and
a lot of jurisdictions. It's the county sheriff's office that actually controls the waterway here. So I have their information, I'll reach out to them as soon as we know what they are directly. And at this point, we're
just waiting for Jared and the crew to get back
over here with the dive unit. And we'll be diving here
on all of these three cars. We're gonna find out what mysteries lurk beneath those buoys. (dramatic piano music) So we got Northwestern Towing who's really stepped up big to the plate. They have four trucks on the way. Jared's finishing up
putting the last touches on our dive computer here, changing the batteries out, making sure all of our
technology here is A1, primed, ready to get in the water. PD just confirmed that the
two vehicles they knew about have never been do dove on or cleared. So we have three vehicles
nobody knows anything about for sure. I can't wait to get into the water. They're 25 feet deep. Soon as Jared's done putting
the finishing touches on it, we'll be in the water. - Yeah, we blocked an entire boat ramp for like four or five hours
one time, on a weekend. We had a lot of people that
were not too happy with us. We continued to learn on
how to be better stewards to, you know, the local economy
and environment and people. And you know, although we're
here to do something good, it doesn't override what it is that they have planned
for their day either. So two years ago, we were on a mission. Fast forward two years ago, we're still on a mission with a purpose. Just thinking about it a
little bit differently. (dramatic music) (oxygen whistling) (water burbling) - [Cameraman] I completely lost Doug. Have no eyes at all on Doug. No bubbles. I have no bubbles on Doug. - [Jared] I have no bubbles either. - [Cameraman] Wait, do
we have bubbles at all? Do we have any bubbles? - [Jared] I don't see any bubbles. - [Cameraman] I don't see any bubbles. - [Jared] Oh, over here. Right here, oh, frick.
Scared the frick outta me! We have no comms, 'cause
our calms are in California being fixed for the season. - [Cameraman] He's on the right car. - [Jared] We were not. So he's making his way around. He is on the side of the car identifying whether windows are up, whether windows are down. So that way if it is a crime scene and we'd run a plate on it, he'll be able to give the
PD a full assessment of it. (water burbling) (oxygen whistling) What's up sir? - Absolutely, it's hot. It is refreshing to be down there. Visibility, 10 feet. Cars clear, wide open. Nothing's in it. Took both plates off. Cleared it. - [Jared] What kind of car is it? - It's Volkswagen Jetta. - [Jared] Really?
- Yeah. - [Jared] I would've never guessed that. - [Doug] Yeah, yeah. Who would've thought? - [Jared] It's a, yeah. A place from '21. So it's not that old. - [Doug] Wow. (Doug coughing) I'm still at 1400. - That's good. - [Doug] I was halfway tempted to just swim right over to the other car. - Could you see it? - [Doug] No, but I know I
could find it really easily. - Yeah, you just float straight. Yeah, just float straight down to it. - Let's find Brian. (oxygen whistling) (water burbling) - [Jared] Right here, 12 feet. This car's only at 20 feet versus 25. Versus the other one,
it is a little deeper. It is either an SUV, I don't think it's tall enough though. A crossover of some sort. Prius, maybe? - [Cameraman] Station wagon? - [Jared] Not long
enough for Station Wagon. Well it's 10, its 18 feet long. - [Cameraman] Oh, it's 18 feet, okay. - [Jared] Okay you take
the 8 to 0, 0 to 10. - [Cameraman] Oh, I see, I see. - [Jared] So, Honda Civic hatchback? Definitely not a Volkswagen
bug that we're looking for. No, no, no, no. - [Jared] What's up Jimmy? (speaker talking faintly) It's good to see you! - Yep. Good to see you too! - [Jared] You ready to go swimming? - Always! - [Jared] We have a
Volkswagen Jetta so far. - Awesome! Easy pull, he said. He's on the second one right now. - Jimmy, from Northwestern Towing. There's actually out of Portland. So he brought a couple
of trucks and guys down. Drove over an hour to
come down to help us out. Free of charge, on his dime. - Wow. - In his time. - That's amazing.
- Incredible company, incredible guy, incredible team. - You guys seem to have a great luck at finding people who are
willing to help, you now? You know, they say do good things and people wanna be a part of it. (water splashing) Hey, you got another
license plate. Doing good. (water burbling) - Woo! Alright. - Got a newer GMC Denali. Big one.
- Wow. - Yeah, yeah. Clear. Windows are down. Nothing inside of the entire vehicle. - [Cameraman] Okay. - Really Another super easy recovery. - [Cameraman] Great. - [Jared] So this one I
believe is upside down, but I can't quite tell. (music intensifies) He's already on his way up. No plate. Looks like a beetle, (indistinct). - Unfortunately not.
- Okay. - We have a Jeep Cherokee. No plates on its side. - [Jared] Okay. - [Doug] Really easy to rig. - [Jared] All right. - So let's freshen me up with air. - [Jared] Get a fresh tank? - This one's hard rigged
through the door handle. - Okay? - So we'll get you out here. Drop rigging on 'em. Get 'em on outta here. - Okay. Easy enough. - Easy enough. - We didn't find Brian on this one, but we're gonna be able
to get three vehicles out of this river. - [Jared] Okay, let's do it. - Big win for the environment. - [Jared] Okay. - Two are stolen. It's not their jurisdiction, but she's gonna be here
just in case we need her. It's county jurisdiction. We already told her
we're pulling them out. Third one, I told her, you
know, it's a newer one. We're probably gonna get
the VIN number off of it and we'll process that
when we get on land. - Perfect. - She said there's $2,000 worth of tools in the trunk of the Jetta. - Is there? - Supposedly. By the time we open it
up and she gets here, I don't know if they are gonna be. - Just sayin'! - We're in the Portland, Salem region. Anything of value is gone from those cars. (car beeping) (dramatic music) - How far out are we? Guesstimating? - 150 feet?
- Cool. - You got that? - Oh yeah, I get that. Cribbing is blocks of wood or pieces, well, it's, we typically use wood. They call 'em rigging pads as well. And what that does is you
put 'em under your footprint so it displaces your weight. 'Cause when we put these down,
if we lift all the wheels of this tow truck off the ground, you're putting anywhere from 60 to 70,000 pounds on this ground. So the bigger the footprint, the more displaced the weight is. Helps out and it will
help level out in any, this is a pretty steep
angle to level out on. We're not actually doing too much lifting, so we're not worried
about leveling out as much as we are about displacing the weight. Well as soon as Doug rigs it, they're gonna run the
cable out to him, hook it, and as soon as he's clear completely, we're just gonna pull. It looks like an easy straight-on pull. I believe we could just
nail it from there. (dramatic music) (water splashing) (truck beeping) - [Doug] It almost looks
like he flipped it. I don't know how he flipped it. - It's fine. It's fine, that rigging
ain't going nowhere. - How much window damage we get, guys? (water splashing) (truck beeping) If you're watching this
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me to slide that around? (speaker faintly talking) (objects clinking) - We've got one key in the ignition, which is classic for dumping a car and it's left in neutral. Tells us that is 100% stolen, which has already been
confirmed by the police. But this is what we see in
almost all the stolen cars. Unless it's a stick shift, pretty much. You know, these cars are left
in neutral, which is one key. It is extremely rare for anyone to drive a vehicle with
just one key on it. What does the one key mean? You're dumping your car, you've taken off all your
mementos and your charms and whatnot and just leaving the key that allows the ignition
and steering wheel to move. (truck beeping) (chains clinking) (upbeat music) So we are gonna get it up the ramp. We're gonna get the big 14-inch saw out. We're going to cut the trunk open. Doug and I both smell something. It's that smell that
we don't want to smell. Right now, we do not yet know if something or someone is in the trunk. (saw screeching) - Yo, yo, yo, yo! You're, oh yeah, there's
a fuel tank there. - It's alright. It's not gonna explode. Get a close-up. - It's all organic. You never
know what's going to happen. Just keep the cameras rolling. You don't plan for that stuff. (saw screeching) - You cutting this one? - No. (laughs) - You wanna take your glasses? (speaker talking faintly) - Oh yeah, she was almost cooked! - Doug, explain to the audience
why the car didn't blow up. - The car did not blow up because unfortunately this is real life. That only happens in
the movies. That's why. - True story. Cars don't blow up. - No. - See, there we go. - [Worker] That's water.
There's gasoline in there. - An energy drink. Some... What is that? Baja Blast, Mountain Dew? You know, some Brisk. It's clear, there's
nothing in there. Nobody. (speakers talking faintly) It's clear, on to the next. (dramatic music)
