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Forensic Files

Guarded Secrets

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace; his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site. More than a decade would pass before a phone call breathed life into the cold case, and a paint smear on the bottom of the victim's boot helped scientists determine what happened during the last hour of his life.

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0:00.0

Up next, a married man falls victim to temptation.

0:04.0

He had made a mistake, which I'm sure a lot of people can identify with.

0:09.0

She offered him a wild side that he hadn't experienced.

0:12.0

Then he vanishes without a trace.

0:15.0

He was there one minute and then gone to next.

0:17.0

For almost 20 years, the disappearance goes unsolved. I kept that hope that maybe he would show up on my doorstep.

0:24.6

Until a tiny chip of paint tells of a terrifying ordeal.

0:28.6

It would drive me crazy to know what a murder victim goes through every time they're killed.

0:48.7

The Kennecott Copper Mine outside Salt Lake City, Utah, is known as the richest hole on earth, and copper isn't the only valuable mineral.

0:54.0

They mine gold and silver, and they have very expensive equipment, that sort of thing,

1:00.0

that theft is a big problem out there.

1:03.0

As a result, security is very tight.

1:06.0

You just don't go onto Kennecott Copper property without usually encountering security.

1:13.8

So when the security guard wasn't on duty

1:16.3

in the guard shack on a winter night in 1991,

1:20.5

it was unusual.

1:22.3

They went up and figured that he might be in the restroom,

1:24.9

checked it out for a while.

1:25.9

They went up and found his lunch was partly eaten.

1:28.4

His hard hat was still there.

1:30.7

The guard, Brian Roof, was not supposed

1:33.5

to leave the shack for any reason

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