Sgt. Patrick Rust (Part One: Lost)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 19 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 2007, Patrick Rust was a 24-year old Sergeant in the U.S. Army, who had just recently returned from his second deployment. A native New Yorker, Patrick had enlisted just months after 9/11, and his time in the military had taken him through training in Oklahoma and Texas, and two separate deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

In March of that year, Patrick moved off-post for the first time, with a roommate he had known for roughly fifteen months. The two lived together for a single day before Patrick went missing, in the early morning hours of March 16th.

In the hours before his disappearance, Patrick had made a suspicious withdrawal from an ATM, made and received a series of erratic phone calls, taken a mysterious detour with acquaintances that others describe as "troubled," and encountered a blast from his past in the most unlikely of settings. All of it painted a very convoluted picture, which investigators have not been able to decipher in over a decade.

Part one of two.

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0:29.0	last greener. On September 16th, 2007, a farmer from upstate New York was cutting hay in
0:36.0	this field. This field, which sat in Jefferson County, roughly five miles outside of the city
0:43.0	of Watertown, was relatively isolated. If you would go a few miles down the busiest road,
0:49.0	Arsenal Street, you would hit a small shopping area, which had a target, Walmart, and a decent
0:55.0	sized mall. But out here, in this patch of farmland, there was very little other than homes
1:01.0	and grass. As one internet commenter put it, quote, there really isn't anything up there,
1:08.0	but farms, cold, snow, and cows. And that was very true for this farm, which was primarily
1:15.0	overgrown grass and hay. The farmer was out here on this mid-September day, trying to
1:21.0	get a handle on the overgrown brush. As the grass and hay began to clear away though, something
1:27.0	appeared. The farmer could not be sure, but it looked vaguely like a body. As they got closer,
1:33.0	they realized that it was skeletal remains, still dressed in the clothing that this unknown
1:39.0	person had likely died in. Two differing agencies responded to this potential crime scene.
1:45.0	The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
1:51.0	You see, as law enforcement would learn, this body belonged to a young man who had gone missing
1:57.0	six months beforehand. Even though the cause and the manner of his death has never been established,
2:03.0	investigators found ATM cards, jewelry, and a military ID belonging to a 24-year-old army sergeant
2:11.0	that had been stationed at nearby Fort Drum. He had disappeared in March of that year, under suspicious
2:17.0	circumstances which linger to this day. Press conference was called for this morning so that we can
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