Hi Park enthusiasts, I'm your host, Dilya DeAmbra.

The story I have for you today starts out simple, but gets really complicated.

As complicated as, say, hiking a trail that has loose gravel, hidden roots and unforeseeable

obstacles that get in your way.

It's the case of a 10-year-old boy who mysteriously vanished from a church camp near Estus Park,

Colorado, only to be found dead a year later, just three miles from where he was last

seen.

Estus Park sits about 90 miles northwest of Denver and is nestled right in the middle of the

Rocky Mountains.

It happens to be a part of the American West that's near and dear to my heart, since it's

where I got married and I visit there about once a year.

When I picked this story for the show, I knew based on the geographic location and personal

connection I had to the region that the story was going to be as hard for me to tell you

about as it will be for you to hear.

Just because the natural beauty of the mountain peaks and rivers that flow through this part

of Rocky Mountain National Park is what my heart and mind tend to dwell on when I'm out

there.

But getting caught up in that ideal scenery makes it easy to forget that you're truly

in the wilderness.

This case takes place at a church camp for boys that offered young men the opportunity

to go hiking, swimming, fishing, and basically do anything they wanted to to enjoy nature.

On a summer evening in August 1958, when one camper was a no-show for dinner, counselors

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