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Scoundrel: History's Forgotten Villains

KAST MEDIA | Jason and Carissa Weiser

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🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their remains, as well as a backpack with a digital camera filled with photos that hinted at a darker story. What happened to Kris and Lisanne? In this investigative series, journalists Mariana Atencio and Jeremy Kryt retrace the last steps of the doomed women. Their search for the truth immerses them in eight years’ worth of conflicting evidence, testimonies, and rumors, as on-the-ground witnesses in Panama come forward for the first time. This explosive new evidence sets off a real-time race to reopen the case, and finally get justice for Kris and Lisanne.

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0:00.0	In 2014, two friends named Chris and LaSan went for a hike in the Panamanian jungle.
0:06.3	They got to the top of a mountain, started down an unmarked path, and were never seen alive again.
0:13.2	A massive search turned up no trace of the missing women, but months later, their backpack was
0:18.5	found deep in the jungle with their phones and cameras still inside, and recovered images from
0:23.7	their digital camera painted a terrifying picture of their final moments. What happened to Chris
0:29.6	and LaSan? Was it a hiking accident? Or something sinister? And could the tiny town of Bukkete
0:36.4	be hiding a dark secret? Join journalists Mariana Atensio and Jeremy Critt, as they travel to
0:42.9	Panamanian 8 years later to investigate the mysterious deaths of Chris Kremers and LaSan Frun.
0:49.7	I'm about to play you a clip of episode 1. But first, be sure to subscribe to Cast Media's new
0:55.1	series Lost in Panama, an Apple podcast, or wherever you like to listen.
1:25.1	What happened to two young women who vanished while on a hike in Panama?
1:30.7	They had traveled to Latin America, where I'm from, to learn Spanish and volunteer with young
1:36.0	children. But they never made it back home. Panamanian government has their official version of
1:42.3	what happened to them. But the locals, the people who really live in the small town of Bukkete Panaman,
1:48.5	where the story takes place, they have another darker tale to tell.
1:56.6	And let's start from the beginning. Chris Kremers and LaSan Frun were two friends in their 20s
2:02.4	who came to Panaman in 2014. They were roommates who worked at the same cafe together in the Netherlands.
2:10.3	They just graduated from university and they saved up money to plan the trip of a lifetime,
2:14.9	two months in Central America. Two months to hike, sightseeing, learn the language, soak up the culture.
2:22.8	They left for their adventure in March of 2014. They first landed in Costa Rica and then
2:28.4	traveled to the islands of Bukkete Panaman. They made friends and watched dolphins and starfish
2:34.9	and dance still for in the morning. In her diary, Chris described a fairytale island.
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