In 2014, two friends named Chris and Liz Anne went for a hike in the Panamanian jungle.

They got to the top of the mountain, started down an unmarked path, and were never seen alive again.

A massive search turned up no trace of the missing women, but months later

their backpack was found deep in the jungle with their phones and cameras still inside

and recovered images from their digital camera painted a terrifying picture of their final moments.

What happened to Chris and Lausanne? Was it a hiking accident or something sinister?

And could the tiny town of Bowke be hiding a dark secret?

Join journalists, Mariana Attensio and Jeremy Crite, as they travel to Panama eight years later

to investigate the mysterious deaths of Chris Cremmer's and Lissan Frune.

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Some mysteries,

some mysteries stick with you,

the theories, the what-ifss the unknowns I've spent the better part of this year trying to figure out what happened to two young women who vanished while on a hike in Panama

They had traveled to Latin America, where I'm from, to learn Spanish and volunteer with young children. But they never made it back home. Panamanian government has their official version of what happened to them.

But the locals, the people who really live in the small town of Boquet de Panama,

where this story takes place, they have another darker tale to tell.

And let's start from the beginning.

Chris Cramers in the San Froon were two friends in their 20s who came to Panama in 2014.

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