The Mystery of the Death Valley Germans
Stuff You Should Know
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 79.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In 1996, a small group of German tourists disappeared in Death Valley National Park without a trace. Fifteen years later, the tenacity of one man solved the case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, and this is Stuff You Should Know. |
| 0:21.7 | I don't really think you could call it part of our ongoing true crime suite, but certainly |
| 0:26.4 | Unsolved Mystery Suite, I think. |
| 0:29.4 | Yeah, semi-solved mystery, I guess at this point, because we're talking about what's known as the Death Valley Germans. |
| 0:36.3 | Pretty good band name, but it's in fact a very sad story |
| 0:40.4 | from July of 1996 when a blended family of German tourists came to the United States for a three-week |
| 0:48.7 | tour of California and Nevada. And we're never seen again alive. Yeah. |
| 0:59.6 | They just vanished into thin air, essentially, in Death Valley National Park. |
| 1:03.5 | And there's, I mean, it's weird. |
| 1:08.3 | Like, essentially there was one guy who will meet later who got it as close to solved as possible, just from sheer determination. |
| 1:11.8 | But the family that you're talking about, they were made up of Egbert Rimkus, who was 34. |
| 1:17.6 | He was an architect. |
| 1:18.8 | He was the dad. |
| 1:20.4 | George. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm not sure how to say George without an E. |
| 1:23.9 | You took German. |
| 1:24.8 | Are you familiar? |
| 1:26.3 | No. |
| 1:27.2 | I guess it's George. Okay. He was 11. He was Egbert's biological son. |
| 1:32.8 | Connie Meyer, Cornelia Connie Meyer. She was 27. She was Egbert's girlfriend. And Max was |
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