I've been getting a lot messages the past few days. Mohawked. Francis was a victim of that. Some posters there report having read the public records on the FB Truth Group before it was made private. Samantha "Sam" Sayers, 28, went missing whilst on a solo hike on the Vesper Peak trail in the North Cascades mountains in Washington on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018. The official search started. There are giant Reddit threads. I'm especially interested in the account of the witness who saw Sam Sayers heading west. And a common refrain, the question of whether Sams disappearance could be foul play; Adams simply never found anything to suggest that possibility. Another saw her descending the south side of summit. Bud Carr, with his drive and determination, was a godsend for a grief-stricken Dares when his girlfriend went missing in 2018. But thats cold comfort for the families left behind. Tripp buys Carr dinner occasionally. It was a total shit show from what I've read from people who live out there or have experience with this type of hiking. Aug. 29, 2021 WA hiker Samantha Sayers went missing on 8/1 a solo day hike to Vesper's Peak. When asked if he was a racist, she said in a text Ive seen/heard/have no data point to support such accusations. They havent met up but they plan to, for which she is so grateful., Still, Carr remains a villain in many circles. I know many of you have reached this point already, but there are some serious problems with what's going on now, and with how it's being presented. The Hidden Lake trek is 8 miles round trip and steep, gaining 3,300 feet in 4 miles. There were a few other searches after that, Carr said, but things didnt really heat up until Samantha Sayers vanished on Vesper Peak in 2018. 509 Olive Way, Suite 305, Seattle, WA 98101, Kevin recognized Sam from across the room. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Her poor mother has lost herself in this horror and become a different person. She built that fire. Samantha Sayers is healthy but is bald because she has alopecia, an autoimmune disease that leads to hair loss, her mother said on Facebook. She and Jamie became good friends, Jamie Lakoduk said, and then started dating. She was super smart, cool, funny. It went viral. Language is powerful.. Posters wait for resolution like a season finale; Im in too deep to stop watching now, wrote one. Last summer, Tripp found remnants of a small campfire while searching with Carr, with whom hes become friends. Theyve been picking their way uphill, high stepping over logs and brushing away bugs for four hours, methodically searching for any sign of Lakoduk. It felt true; he and Sam had lived together for more than a year, had talked about marriage. I hope I'm being polite as I say this, I'm not trying to attack anyone or assign blame. Sam Sayers, described by her family and friends as an experienced hiker, set out on the morning of Aug. 1 for a solo hike in the North Cascades. Washingtons a weird state, he says, because its possible to drive your car into the middle of nowhere, park, step off the road and suddenly be in dangerous terrain.. Instead, families looking for closure often turn to individuals or foundations to keep the search for their loved ones going. That was what had pinged. Kevin shut down the Facebook group and others sprung up in its wake. He remembers Sams mother Lisa asking him what he really thought, around day four. And who searches for those missing people? The easy banter of men and women who work together often. Sayers' disappearance sparked a major, exhaustive search on the 6,200-foot peak off the Mountain Loop Highway, as well as a frenzy on social media. Jun 2004 - Mar 20138 years 10 months. Carlton Bud Carr Jr. was born in 1978 in Californias San Bernardino Valley. While his dad worked at the mine, Carr played and explored in the mountains. The title change was born out of a family discussion, he says. The dog handler (Cheryl) claimed Raven found a water bottle and a hat with mountain lion bites in them. The happiest situation I can think of is shes on that mountain and it was something quick and she didnt suffer for too long., Only a fraction of missing persons cases are truly without a trace, truly unsolved. They parsed Kevins 911 callcould you hear someone in the background?and claimed to have hacked his email. A sexist and, just plain creepy, not to mention an opportunist taking advantage of grieving families. By early March, just after Mardi Gras 2019 and three years after he met Sam, Kevin has regained some of the weight he shed on Vesper, a mustard button-up brings color back to his face. He drove to the trailhead, a little over an hour and a half from Belltown, stopping at a gas station to buy a flashlight. Washington is not his natural environment, growing up as he did in the swamps of Louisiana, trapping alligators and selling their hides. This week I've caught up on the NW Hikers page dedicated to her, the forum was unfortunately closed back in September, but many of those people brought up valid points. The day was hot, the faint haze from far-off wildfires hanging in the air. After the discovery they changed strategies and started following the terrain downhill from the fire. LYS suddenly dismissing her vehement faith that SS was/is on the mountain. When I dream shes always getting kidnapped. The unknown, he says time and time again, is the hard part.Sometimes he can joke about the idea that Sam had orchestrated her own disappearance, a kind of Gone Girl stunt that would melt the internet: Youve been chilling in the woods for five months? It was easy for fellow hikers to remember the young woman with the bald, tattooed head. He took to Vesper and pioneered his own way off trail; from the brush he counted more than 100 people on the day the reward was posted. But when they knocked on the door to Kevin and Sams apartment, the truth quickly shattered the fantasy. She was 3,300 feet and 3 hard miles from the road, but she was on the right track. The trail gains elevation through switchbacks cut in a brushy hillside. The docs reply: Someone with mental fortitude and true survivor skills can find food to live on. Hes accused of being a Nazi, a white supremacist, a misogynist, a charlatan. Rachel moved back into her dads home in Moses Lake. It was late July and Samantha Sayers was looking for hiking partners on Facebook. The most paranoid among us believe that every person is shadowed by satellitesand thats probably not so far-fetched. A Seattle hotelier and real estate developer. It looks like a dead endrock climbers need ropes to scale the steep walls that rise in every directionbut theres one other way out, a trail that rises through an ankle-twisting boulder field, leading hikers to Headlee Pass. Then he began to rally Snohomish County Volunteer Search and Rescue through his radio. Samantha Sayers. Sam was my health dictator. The sheriffs office fielded sightings of bald women across the state, several at various Walmarts. Every year, in the United States, roughly 600,000 people go missing. Online, critics pulled up evidence of past felonieshe helped burgle a gun store before Y2K, he admits, but found Buddhism in his four years in Missouri prison. A big open space where it looks like you can see everything. In addition to the swastika tattoo, Carr posted a video since deleted of himself wearing a hat with an Iron Cross. It even had an iron box stove inside. Thats when two hikers coming down saw her. Someone claimed she was on an episode of The Bachelorette. Her mother posted daily updates that were parsed for clues. It starts at 3,600 feet in the thick and sometimes vicious vegetation typical of the rain-soaked North Cascades and winds into alpine meadows of wildflowers before reaching a rocky granite saddle and then, at 6,700 feet, the lookout itself. Squirrels are going to be stuffed, one poster wrote. Kevin, who used to wear jeans day hiking with Sam, learned how to use an ice ax. Several GoFundMe campaigns popped up. So forgive Kevin for being a bit antisocial. Trash. Kevin and Sam on a Mt. Off the mountain, Kevin had become the tragic fiance who refused to give upor maybe the subject of wild speculation. :-) grinchmas34 4 yr. ago I would love to be added to that group! If you're not cool with that thats fine too. In Belltown. Covered in tattoos. It was Adamss first year as a search and rescue sergeant, taking over from a predecessor who oversaw SAR response for 22 years at the Snohomish County Sheriffs Office. Sayers' family has started a GoFundMe campaignto purchase food and survival gear that rescuers have been dropping in 20 one-pound bags in various locations so Sayers might stumble across them. Learning to, if not love, at least tolerate the mountains. Though it was a weekday, the sunshine brought summer crowds; another hiker remembers seeing her eat a sandwich, lettuce protruding from between bread slices, while she chatted with rock climbers whod ascended one of the sharper faces. Everyones gonna say, a boyfriend, whatever, fly-by-night, who cares, he says. Hes a staunch defender of Washingtons system calling it the best in the country by a mile. Hes also a frequent online critic of Carr and hes an administrator for the The Truth of the Sam Sayers Case UNCENSORED Facebook page. They dont touch anything. The aircrafts FLIR, an infrared camera, scanned for heat signatures, but the pilots also stuck their heads out windows. Two years later as Kevin Dares hikes uphill searching for Lakoduk, snow is a distant memory. Soon after meeting Kevin, she left a gig at Seattle Repertory Theatre to work entrepreneurial hustles, pursuing a real estate license and marketing intriguing products shed found online, like an inflatable lounger. Seattle Met. Kevin made several more solo trips through November 14. Rebellious and combative, he was in solitary numerous times, contemplated suicide but then converted to Buddhism (even publishing three short books on the topic). Seattle friends, the 27-year-old wrote in 2018, Im going hiking this Wednesday and tackling Vesper Peak Message me if you want to tag along.. The trail was hard to follow, obscured by snow, above the tree line and exposed to the elements. No ones seen a single trace of Sam Sayers since. He couldn't accompany Sam because he was working. Ive got her, Dares said. That can lead to profiteering and exploitation, with some bad operators capitalizing on grief to make a buck. He added fuel to the fire when one person asked if hed have left the note if it was a man. In his short tenure, Adams had already honed his instincts on missing hiker cases. I cannot even imagine how her poor family feels. Steve Monchak, an area drone photographer, reported that hed been at the Big Four ice caves the day Sam went missing, just a few miles away; he told deputies he spotted two suspicious men there. She disappeared on August 1, 2018 after a day of solo hiking at Vesper Peak near Seattle, Washington. The Snohomish County Sheriffs Office launched 310 search and rescue missions last year, up 6 percent from 2017. And its possible no body was found due to wildlife in the area? Theyve found no trace of Sayers. Sams trace. Hes proud of what the volunteers do. They were surprised at how she was dressed, thermal tights under shorts and a long-sleeved shirt under a NASA tank top, but Lakoduk seemed confident, had other clothes in her pack and was moving very well they told police. Everyone agreed that the public would take it all more seriously if people understood their solid commitment. NBC News asked in an article published Friday. He grabs his radio. Regardless, Rachel left Moses Lake alone that morning. He also worries that such rogue searchers put themselves in danger. In every community across Washington, families are facing the challenge of accessing and affording long-term care. He lost weight, smoked and drank too much. With his dark pointed goatee and survivalist rhetoric, Carr rubbed many the wrong way. So, when they stop, its relaxed. Someone sent Kevin a kind of fan fiction story they found online, casting Sam, Buck Carp, and Kelvin Daires as characters in a rambling tale with a menacing undertone. A jet boat. They stopped and chatted. Psychics and shamans relayed visions. Many took issue with the supply bags full of energy bars, not a common SAR technique. The desperate family paid, nonetheless. Rachel Lakoduk woke early on Oct. 17, 2019, stuffed her purple sleeping bag into her green backpack, dumped her clean laundry on her bed, picked out the clothes she needed for the upcoming adventure, jumped into her white Jeep Cherokee and was westbound out of Moses Lake shortly after 7 a.m. She passed through Washingtons hot and dry middle, registered for her hike at a ranger station and then parked at the Hidden Lake Lookout trailhead. See how those goats move? A paramount code in the search and rescue world, he said, is to not squawk about victories or defeats. One woman said her brother-in-law couldve abducted Sam, given a coincidentally timed vacation. News organizations picked up the story. Dares insisted on paying Carr $500 a week during the heat of the Sayers search. Efffff that now as far as am I concerned. Except in the case of Sam Sayers. Before she left on her solo hike on the Vesper Peak trail hed texted Be safesos me if anything goes haywire. Her replyThanks baby I love you.was classic Sam, straightforward and confident. She spoke her mind. After climbing more than 4,000 feet, up switchbacks and across boulder fields and finally across the patchy snow that marbles the stone pyramid of Vespers very top, Sam reached the summit. Time will tell. A crew of spacey garnet hunters who called themselves the Galactic Goats set up camp nearby, sometimes wandering into the search enclave in a haze of pot smoke to show off the rust-red gemstones theyd unearthed. The Find Sam Sayers Facebook group had grown to five figures, with posters trading conflicting theories and rumors. She had two hiking poles, a blue backpack, a beige sun hat and a dark gray wool beanie. After summiting Washington state's Vesper Peak on a day hike in August 2018, Sam Sayers disappeared. Thanks if anyone can do that! I'm not a member either but I'm just curious what was the final straw for you with Lisa? She was most likely taking a selfie and fell. Someone else commented on his swastika tattoo, calling him a Nazi and racist. Im a member of the truth group and the missing Seattle hikers group ( they discuss Sams case and others and its also my favorite because theres no stupid drama.) By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Been trying for a week now I thought it was shut down (I'm social media challenged). The wrong side of the mountain, he later told a sheriffs office sergeant. His sarcastic southern faade slips. People def took advantage of the search, like the main guy who turned the SAR effort into a camping trip. As of Monday, more than $35,000 has been raised. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Someone texts Tripp. The tattoos on her scalp, Kevin says, were armor. He tackled the elevation gain like it was a stroll down Second Avenue; his weeks of searching Vesper had whittled his already slim frame down whippet-thin. At first, he was convinced Dares killed her . The two men sit together, uphill from the remnants of a life. Sam Sayers [Handout] The Theories With nearly 1,600 people missing in national forests and on public land, it is difficult to speculate about the causes of all these missing people. Hes going to have a cigarette, a bad habit that accelerated after Sayers disappeared, and take a nap while the four searchers below him make their way up. Dares is 500 feet up the hill, obscured by the thick vegetation. Driving down together after a day of work, Carr Sr. would quiz Bud on what to do if he got stranded on that mountain road.
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