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June 4th, 1999.

Wasilla, 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

Talqitina Mountains, but neither sibling has ever been found.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh, uh, and uh, uh,

uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest minisode of the trail Went Cold. I'm your host Robin Warder and today's

Minnesode is a pretty unique one as we will be covering the disappearances of two brothers

from Alaska, Michael and Chuckie 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 Chuckie'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 to be explored.

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