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June 4th 1999

with Silla, Alaska. While spending the night at a friend's house,

15-year-old Michael Palmer slips out to attend a graduation party. While biking home with friends,

Michael vanishes without a trace, but his bicycle and sneakers are soon discovered at separate

locations. Over a decade later, Michael's brother Chuck Ego is missing while riding a snow

machine in the Tal Keaton mountains, and neither sibling has ever been found. After that,

the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest mini-sode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder, and today's mini-sode is a pretty unique one, as we will be covering

the disappearances of two brothers from Alaska, Michael and Chuck E. Palmer. But this is not a case

of siblings vanishing together. No, we're actually going to be chronicling two separate stories of

two brothers who vanished over a decade apart from each other at different locations under

entirely different circumstances. There are a few eerie parallels between the two disappearances,

in both cases, the victim was traveling somewhere with a group of people before they apparently

became separated from them and went missing. While search parties would eventually find Michael

and Chuck E's modes of transportation, no trace of either sibling was ever found. It's very

unlikely that the two disappearances are connected, as the whole thing is just an astonishing coincidence,

but this has to be an incredibly painful tragedy for the Palmer family, so both stories deserve

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