He was hilarious.

I mean, he was the life of the party.

He was the type of guy that was, you know, always cracking jokes, always making people laugh.

He was the guy that was, you know, there to have fun and, you know, kind of a free spirit, so to

speak. He really loved cats, and I'm kind of a cat lady myself. We kind of bonded over that,

and I'm into rock digging and rock hounding and he had gotten into gold panning

and digging for rocks up in outside of Ellenford you know so we kind of developed a bond over that

Nathan is the oldest I'm the oldest and Ian was the middle child, the center of our family, the glue that held us all together.

It's just hard. It's hard to lose what held you all together.

Well, I mean, there's that show that they have, that they have a see no evil or whatever, where it shows people the last time they were caught on video, last door they went to or whatever they did last.

And it shows all that. And that's even hard to watch, and it's not your person. And it's hard because it's interesting to find out how they catch people.

But when it's your loved one, something happens like that.

And when you watch those shows, you're like, oh, that, you know, that'll never be me.

That you don't ever think that something like that could ever possibly happen to you.

41-year-old Ian Eccles spent the majority of his free time outdoors and loved to hunt.

So when he and his friend made plans to spend a weekend hunting in the mountains near Liberty,

Washington in May of 2020, nothing was out of the ordinary.

But when Ian's friend got to the spot where they agreed to

meet up in a popular national forest, Ian wasn't there. In fact, there was no sign of Ian, his

vehicle, or any of his camping equipment. For more than a year, Ian's family, friends, and law

enforcement have been looking for him.

They haven't found Ian yet, but what they have uncovered is bigger than anyone could have

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