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I think that honestly he's a lot smarter than people are giving him credit for. I think he does very well at

manipulating people. I don't think that this was his first time. I just think that it might have been not something that had been planned on his end, but it wasn't hard for him.

Some people in this world, apparently, that are willing to set aside their humanity to survive. I don't understand how somebody could be so negligent with human life.

It just really helped us feeling though when you want to help. And there's nothing you can do to help. But wait for an update. When the updates happen, they can't tell you anything.

Which I totally understand because it is an active investigation and they can't tell you much. But it's very, very frustrating when you're out there. And they have to look at all possibilities, but you're just screaming inside. And it's like, he's out there, he's out there somewhere.

And all you know is we don't know when it happened. We don't know what happened. And all you do when you're sitting there and you have this frantic conversation about somebody else driving this vehicle is the what is, is he being held somewhere? Or is he tied up? Are they holding him? Did they hurt him? Did they just let him go? Is his leg broken? And he's trying to climb. It's all these what ifs? What if run through your head? Just scenarios, different scenarios.

By May 23rd, 2020, Ian Eccles had not been seen in a week. He had made plans with a friend to go hunting, but never showed up to their agreed meeting location. The next day, he didn't report to work, which was very unusual for Ian. His family and friends had launched a massive search across a vast amount of territory that encompasses the Okanagan-Wanachi National Forest.

Along the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains in Washington, they had been going for days without any sleep, searching tirelessly for Ian on nothing but desperation and adrenaline.

And then, Ian Silver FJ Cruiser burst out of nowhere, bounding down the mountains toward them in what sounded like a horrible nightmare, but it was actually happening.

Even more strange was the fact that Ian wasn't driving the car. And the man who was? Well, he might just be a serial killer.

Amarissa and Formandary, this is episode 293 of The Vanished, part 2 of Ian Eccles' story, The Manhunt.

I'm Candace Dillon, host of the podcast Killer Psychie. And in our newest season, we dissect the thoughts and behaviors of the most violent figures in history.

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Yesterday, we brought you the story of 41-year-old Ian Eccles, who was last seen on May 16, 2020, when he left his home to go turkey hunting for the weekend with a friend.

Ian's steps can be traced through the afternoon and evening of May 16, but shortly after 7pm, Ian had vanished.

By the time his hunting buddy arrived at their agreed-upon spot in the early morning hours of May 17, Ian was gone forever.

If you haven't already listened to yesterday's episode, we encourage you to hit pause and go listen to that first.

It's called Ian Eccles, part 1, The Hunting Trip.

In order to understand the difficulty and scope of the search for Ian, you must first be able to picture where he was when he disappeared.

We've never been to this place, so we asked many people to describe it to us.

We also reviewed maps, drone and satellite footage and did a lot of reading. We're going to try to give you a picture in words of this place.

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