Lost Media: Tragic Death of Colin Scott

On June 7th siblings 23-year-old Colin Scott and his sister Sable would travel to Yellowstone National Park. At the time Colin had recently graduated from Pacific University and was visiting his sister from Portland, Oregon. The two planned to have a day trip to Yellowstone.

They would park not far from the Norris Geyser Basin in the Wyoming part of the park. Sable would record their trip and when they found that there was no one there with them on the boardwalk route they decided to venture off it. 

The two planned to hot pot which is the prohibited exercise of swimming in hot springs. They would pass by warning signs and venture into a forbidden area. This area was prohibited due to the heat and acidity of the hot springs. These areas were dangerous and deadly and since 1890 there have been 22 known deaths from hotspring accidents. 

The siblings would venture and a terrible accident would happen. Collin would slip into one of these hot springs. Sage would try to save her brother, but it wasn't possible. She would then run to the museum and beg for help. The whole accident would be caught on her phone. 

By the time help arrived, it was obviously too late to save the young man. The only thing they could see was his head hands and upper torso and he was unmoving. It was too dangerous at the time to try to retrieve his body with the oncoming lightning storm and the volatile temperatures of the pools. The hotspring would completely dissolve his body overnight due to the heat and acidic nature of it. Only his wallet and flip-flops were found.

His death was tragic and left a warning to others about the dangers of going into prohibited areas. The recording is considered lost media and it would be best that it's left that way. 

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

The Guardian

The Mirror June 10, 2021

Cryptids: Jackalope and Jackanape

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Jackalope is a well-known fearsome critter. It is described as a jackrabbit with antelope antlers sometimes even a pheasant tail or hind legs. The name "Jackalope" derives from jackrabbit and antelope. There have been similar cryptids in history, but this one is based in America. It's said that the first sighting was in 1829 in Douglas, Wyoming.

Jackalopes are said to be extremely shy unless approached. They can often run fast around 90 miles per hour. It is said that they can imitate almost any sound including human voices. When they use human voice usually it's in phrases such as "There he goes! That way!". It's said that if you leave a flask of alcohol out a Jackalope would drink it and become intoxicated making it easier to hunt. 

Jackanapes are the female version and are said to be able to milk while sleeping lying face up. Their milk is said to have medicinal uses. It is said that Jackanapes usually only breed during electrical storms or hail.

It's possible that the first sightings and some of them afterward were rabbits infected with the Shope papillomavirus. Which causes kreatine growths in rabbits typically near its head. It is probably the most common hoax taxidermied animal.

SOURCES:

Wikipedia (Jackalope)

Wikipedia ( Shope Papillomavirus)

Cryptid Wiki

Disappearance of Karen Lee Valdez

On November 20, 1983, 26-year-old Karen Lee Valdez was last seen at her residence in Cheyenne, Wyoming. There is little information in this case. 

Karen is a white woman and was 26-years-old at the time. She is 5'1" and 115 lbs. She has brown hair and blue eyes. 

SOURCES: 

NamUs

May 11, 1991 Rock Springs, Wyoming Sexual Assualt

In the early morning of May 11, 1991, a man would break into the home of an unnamed 43-year-old woman in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He would sexually assault the woman. 

The suspect was in his late 20's to early 30's at the time. He's 5'9" to 5'10" and with a slender build (150 to 160 lbs). He had short brown hair at the time. He was wearing light-colored jeans, a white windbreaker, and white athletic shoes. 

SOURCES:

Rock Springs Wyoming (PDF)

July 14, 1902 Sheridan County, Wyoming Doe

On July 14, 1902, an unknown person (gender not stated) died in Sheridan County, Wyoming. They are buried at Sheridan Municipal Cemetary. There is little information in this case. 

SOURCES:

Find a Grave

Unidentified Wiki

Murder of Robert Lee Thorncock

On Feb 12, 1997, 40-year-old Robert Thorncock was booked in the Cache County Jail in Logan, Utah on charges of fraud and being a fugitive from Idaho. He was apparently had been arrested on suspicion of taking credit cards, wallets, and checkbooks from the purses of employees at the Bear River Health Department. He went on a spending spree with credit cards buying things like a new T.V., VCR, and other items. On February 21, 1997, Robert would escape by slipping under the security fence while outside for exercise.

On August 30, 1997, a dog would drag home an arm in Bedford, Wyoming. Apparently, the remains were disturbed when a property owner was excavating near Strawberry Creek. He would be identified through fingerprints and tattoos. Robert was shot through the head


SOURCES:

Wyoming Division of Investigations 

Deseret News

Murder of Robert Miller

 

On August 5, 1979, around 3:45 a.m. 26-year-old  Robert Miller outside of the A&D Saloon  North Front Street in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was outside with a man who they seemed to get along with before getting into an argument with him. The other man would then shoot and kill Robert. 

SOURCES:

City of Rock Springs

Murder of L.G. Strowbridge

In 1981 55-year-old L.G. Strowbridge was a transient traveling east to return to his home state Michigan. On July 1, 1981, his body would be found underneath the eastbound lane of I-80 at the Pilot Butte exit in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He had suffered from severe trauma and died from strangulation. He was last seen in Salt Lake City, Utah area around two days before.

SOURCES: 

City of Rock Springs

Murder of Lee Romero

 On June 4, 1980, at  3 a.m. 65-year-old Lee Romero was in a car driven by a Salt Lake City man. Near Bunning Park in Rock Springs, Wyoming when a car pulled up next to the mand began shooting. Lee would be struck in the neck and die from his injuries. The two men were sitting in the front and rear passenger seats of a grey and maroon Chevrolet Monte Carlo or something similar. In the driver's seat was a blond woman. The car would flee going south on Elk St. 

SOURCES:

City of Rock Springs

February 28, 1988 Cheyenne, Wyoming Baby Doe

On Feb. 28, 1988, a baby was found wrapped in a blanket in a culvert pipe under a main access road in a residential area in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The baby had been dead for around 12 hrs. It's not stated whether the baby is a newborn or not, but he was under a year old. He was a white male and was 6.5 lbs. He had brown hair and brownish-blue eyes. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Doe Network

Lost Boy Larry

On August 7, 1973, a young boy would call out on the CB radio. A radio operator in California received the transmission of 7-year-old Larry calling out for help. He said he was lost in New Mexico and that he and his father had gone out rabbit hunting. His father would then collapse at the wheel, it may have been a heart attack, and the red and white truck crashed and landed upside down in a ditch. It was hard to tell what Larry was saying as he was sobbing heavily and the connection was poor, but he was able to tell the operator this much.

Over the next few days several CB operators in New Mexico, California, Wyoming, and Canada would talk to this supposed "Larry". His pleas were reported to the police, but there was no trace of him nor his father. The calls would stop 5 days later. It's believed that some of these "Larry's and one David" were hoaxes and possible the original was too.

If this was true and Larry and his father were trapped in a truck it's likely they were never found. There were no reports of a missing father and son and no reports of the accident. There were search helicopters out and one "David" talked to a rescue worker who said the boy claimed to see him airplane searchlights that had flown over the Manzano Mountains, south of Albuquerque.


SOURCES:
New Mexico
Medium

Murder of Tonya K Teske

18-year-old Tonya K. Teske lived in Shoshoni a small town in Wyoming. She lived a troubled life. In 1995 she quit school and began hitchhiking between her Mom's home and being on the road. She hitchhiked around Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.  She was estranged with her family falling in and out of contact with them.

On August 10, 1997, Tonya had left her home town hitchhiking. She was headed towards Casper and had been seen with at least 4 men in there 50's when she left. She also mentioned that she was going to Salt Lake City. She had previously died her hair an orange/blonde and wore silver jewelry.

On August 13, 1997, at 10 p.m.Tonya was last seen carrying a large green suitcase and brown shoulder bag at the Cinnamon Lodge in Montana. She was being questioned by police about soliciting sex over the CB radio. She claimed that she had done it as a joke. At the time they found out that she had a warrant for forgery in Utah, but they weren't willing to extradite her, so they let her go.

On August 15, 1997, a trucker's wife riding shotgun spotted a girl's nude body in the high grass on the highway 20 ramp near Ucon, Idaho. The only thing she was wearing was a pearl ring. It took more than a week to identify her as no one had reported her missing. Her cause of death was a mystery, but it is believed to be a homicide from the way her body was found.


SOURCES:
http://eastidahocoldcasesinc.com/attention-hunters-and-outdoorsman/tonya-k-teske/
http://idahonews.com/news/local/52-cold-cases-of-idaho-unsolved-murders-missing-people-and-abducted-children#photo-2
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/girl-last-seen-at-four-corners-found-dead-in-idaho/article_e4666bfd-2a81-5fda-8636-a77bbf795f8b.html