When a scuba enthusiast embarks on a notoriously dangerous cave dive alone and fails to return,

it's initially assumed that the vortex has claimed another victim.

However, lack of a body and suspicious circumstances forced authorities to consider other possibilities,

including foul play in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. As always, I'm your coach, Scott. This is the revisited and enhanced edition

of one of our early episodes, which features the Unsolved Case of Ben McDaniel.

The original edition was recorded in 2020, and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on the case in 2025.

As I'm sure those of you who've been listening since the early days of Last Scene Live have

noticed, our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes.

When we originally recorded them, we were doing the best we knew how at the time.

However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot since then.

We want to honor these victims by telling their stories with the production quality

they deserve.

So, we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes.

I'm talking totally new recordings with any new info or updates included, and we'll be

releasing those new episodes on what we're previously are off Mondays. So that means there will be an

episode of Last Seen Alive airing every single Monday. It'll alternate between totally new cases we've never covered before, as usual,

and revisited and remade episodes on the Mondays in between.

Yeah, I know I said this last time,

but it really does feel good to focus on some of our earlier cases

and bring them out to wider audience and just revisit them now that we've got

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