Death Valley National Park Cold Cases

Locations Unknown

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Places & Travel, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 897 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

May 2019 to May 2022: three men travel alone into the vast desert backcountry of Death Valley National Park; one to cache water in a remote canyon, another to check on a vehicle at an isolated hot spring, and a third who never returns from a campground on the park’s edge. Each disappearance triggers a search. None of them are found. What do these cases reveal about risk, scale, and survival in one of the most unforgiving landscapes in North America? Join us this week as we investigate three Death Valley National Park Cold Cases. Cases covered: Rolin Bruno, Robert Alan "Bob" Wildoner, & Peter Harootunian.

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0:00.0	Thousands of people have mysteriously vanished in America's wilderness.
0:13.0	Join us as we dive into the deep end of the unexplainable and try to piece together what happened.
0:20.0	You are listening to locations unknown. Oh, what's up, everybody.
0:40.3	Oh, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Locations Unknown.
0:58.6	I'm your co-host, Joe E. Rodo.
1:00.1	And with me as always is a guy who always plows his driveway before driving over it and turning it nice.
1:05.2	Mike Van der Bogart.
1:06.3	I wish that were true.
1:08.5	You have the two icy tire tracks.
1:10.2	Oh, yeah.
1:28.6	Me too. More than more than two. So perfect. I wish I could get out there sooner, but. Eh. Yeah. It's cold. It's cold. It'll melt someday. Someday. Yeah. Well, thank you, Joe. And thank you to all of our amazing listeners for tuning in. Just some few updates before you get going. I going got one new patron shout out to haley misaline i think i said that right yeah cool thank you so much for supporting
1:35.1	the show it did i go confidently i just like yeah yeah you're good i know thank you for supporting
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1:51.8	maybe this year, maybe next year, maybe next decade. Maybe never. Maybe never. You'll never know.
1:58.0	You'll never know. As long as people people keep going missing we'll keep talking about it
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