Hell and Gone Murder Line: James Escalante Part 2
Hell and Gone
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On June 25, 2020, 56-year-old James Escalante, who also went by Blackhawk, left home on a red mountain bike to help Dee, a friend of his and his girlfriend Sherry’s, whose truck had gotten stuck in the desert.
But he never made it back home, and no one reported him missing until September 7th. Heather Escalante and her husband Jon, James’ son, began their own search.
After Heather started posting on social media and looking for information, she heard that remains were found in the desert on August 8th by a hiker. The body was a John Doe. Half his face was missing, he had long black hair and there was no ID found.
Heather contacted the detective working the case to say that she believed that the body could be James, and on December 15th, the family’s worst fears were confirmed. They got a call from the coroner. James Escalante was dead. His cause and manner of his death were undetermined.
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| 0:10.7 | girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder. |
| 0:14.5 | I am confident that Julie Beckley is guilty. |
| 0:17.6 | They've never found a weapon. |
| 0:19.3 | Never made sense. |
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