004 - Rico Harris: Into Thin Air
Trace Evidence
Steven Pacheco
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🗓️ 11 June 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In the early morning hours, Rico sent a last text message and mysteriously vanished. Two days later his car was found in the Lower Site parking lot of Cache Creek in Yolo County California. The investigation to discover what happened to Rico will uncover multiple pieces of evidence showing Rico's presence in the area, and possibly his disoriented state of mind but opinions and theories will fall on opposite sides, with investigators believing one way, and Rico's family firmly believing the other.
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| 0:00.0 | On October 9, 2014, Rico Harris left his mother's home in Alhambra, California to make the 17-hour, |
| 0:08.6 | 1000-mile journey to Seattle, Washington. Rico had recently moved in with his fiancé, |
| 0:14.8 | Jennifer Song, and had made a last-minute trip home to visit family and gather items. |
| 0:20.5 | At the time he begins the trip, Rico has been awake for nearly 30 hours, and both his |
| 0:25.2 | fiancé and his mother expressed concern for his safety, urging him to rest and to take the trip |
| 0:31.0 | in the morning. However, Rico has an important business meeting the next night and doesn't want |
| 0:36.8 | to miss out on the opportunity to secure himself a permanent position with the company. |
| 0:42.0 | Through text messages and phone calls, Rico communicates with his mother and his fiancé |
| 0:47.2 | throughout the night and early morning hours. Around 10 a.m., Jennifer Song receives the last |
| 0:53.0 | known communication from Rico. After several hours without contact, panic sets in, and Rico's |
| 0:59.7 | family grows concerned. Two days later, Rico's abandoned car is found in the lower-site parking |
| 1:06.0 | area of Cash Creek Regional Park in Yolo County, California. The car's battery is dead, |
| 1:13.1 | the gas tank is empty, and the car appears to have been ransacked. The Sheriff's Department |
| 1:18.4 | contacts police in Alhambra where the vehicle is registered, and Rico's mother is visited by the |
| 1:23.7 | police, notifying her that they have found her son's car. At this point, Rico's mother files a |
| 1:29.6 | missing person's report. Initially, the only trace of Rico that can be found is a single shoe print, |
| 1:35.9 | but later, when his cell phone is recovered. Odd video shop by Rico add more confusion to an |
| 1:41.8 | already-proplexing disappearance. Several witnesses report sightings of Rico, but search efforts |
| 1:48.1 | involving ATVs and police dogs turn up no new leads. Law enforcement and Rico's family |
| 1:54.8 | take opposite sides in their theories of where Rico could be and what could have happened to him. |
| 2:00.4 | Did Rico choose to walk off into the forest of his own will? Was he losing a long battle with |
| 2:05.9 | substance abuse that led him astray? Or did Rico come into contact with someone dangerous? |
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