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This season on Blood Trails, each story begins with a hunter stepping into the wild, but not all of them come back.

I'm Jordan Sillers, a journalist with over a decade of experience investigating stories about hunting, fishing, guns, and crime.

Join me as we track the truth through tangled cover and cold case files, where every

trail tells a story and every story leaves its own trail of blood.

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This is the story of the unusual death of Oklahoma Game Warden Melvin Bucky Garrison,

who drowned in two and a half feet of water in the Tiger Mountain area in the deep fork arm of Lake Eufaala in December 1971.

I'm pretty much just going to let this story tell itself.

I really doubt that you're going to want to miss this one.

His shotgun was missing.

It's never been found to this day.

So most of the people involved immediately

started thinking, you know, that he probably didn't drown in two feet of water.

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