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The fellow who saw him on the trail had come forward, but this fellow actually reached out to us through the

Facebook site. He said, you know, I'm sorry to take so long getting in touch with you, but I only just now saw the Facebook site.

And he said, I just want to offer you my condolences. I'm the guy who saw him on the trail that morning. So, you know, he said, if you have any questions, please ask.

He said, you know, I've wondered all this time if there's something I could have said that might have prevented the tragedy.

And I should have asked if you have enough water or are you aware of the heat. And we were able to tell him Paul had gone in with plenty of water.

On July 13, 2018, Paul and Stephanie Miller were finishing up their vacation in Southern California. And we're preparing to drive to Las Vegas to catch their flight home to Ontario later that day.

That morning, Paul told Stephanie that he wanted to get in one last quick hike. Stephanie decided to stay behind and finish packing up their belongings.

While Paul headed off to the Joshua Tree National Park, for a short hike on the trail known as the 49 Palms Oasis Trail.

Although Paul was seen hiking that day, he never made it back to their motel room and has never been seen or heard from again.

I'm Marissa and from Wondery, this is episode 198 of the Fanished Paul Miller's Story.

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The degree was in environmental science, so he looked getting outdoors. He had worked for a couple of conservation authorities who had worked for the Royal Ontario Museum for a while, digging fossils actually in Yeohoo National Park in Bruce Columbia.

The job that he had sort of settled into is with a company that makes water filtration systems. He had kind of worked his way up through the company and had gotten to the point where they were starting to send them around the world to different countries that were looking at systems to bring in clean water to different communities.

He was quite excited about that. They actually paid his salary until Christmas time to help Stephanie out of it. You know, they didn't have to do that, but Paul was highly regarded there at all levels within the company. It was a small company and so kind of like family, everybody knows everybody.

Paul's wife Stephanie also spoke with us for this story. She told us more about Paul and the future that the couple was looking forward to spending together.

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