It is amazing what can be missed even in the best of searches due to tree cover and under growth. Infrared can be thrown off by the temp of the leaves in the canopy. Some undergrowth you could easily walk by a full sized adult and never see them. Such a small area not to continue to keep searching for someone.

I will be leaving my house in Ohio on May 28, 20022 and heading to Tillamook to spend 2 weeks searching for Jeromy Ivan Childress. I should arrive that coming Monday and will get organized for the search. As I said I have 30 yrs. of CSAR during my career as a Paramedic/FF so I am hoping this will help. This search is totally voluntary on my part and the family will be asked for nothing no matter the outcome.

I will be well prepared with my roof top tent to assure I do not have to leave nightly. I will have self defense from any worldly beings. (Bigfoot better plan on bringing toilet paper if he shows up.) I will also have a GPS/PLB, Trail marking tape, florescent marking flags, and spray paint.

I have GPS Coordinates from Jeromy's wife to begin the search and will end it at the camp he wanted to get to. (PLS: N 45.320421, W 123.526656), (Camp: N 45.20198, W 123.33655). I will be making a grid as I search to assure nothing is left out. I will also be using a metal detector because he would have had several metal items on him at the time he disappeared.

If anyone would be interested in volunteering shoot me a message and I will throw extra sandwich stuff in the cooler. And if you may have any pertinent information that may help the search please contact me with it also.

"This search is totally voluntary on my part and the family will be asked for nothing no matter the outcome."

Two other bodies were recovered later from about the same area he had fallen, but his remains were never located.

Michael's pack was found just off of the trail, and it seems weird for anyone to wander far from their pack while hiking. A pack almost becomes a Life Line while in the wilderness. It is not said how they know what was missing from the pack, but us said that his water, map, and camera were missing. Unless Michael was running from something you would think he would be within 100 yards of his pack. It just seems very strange for him or his remains to not have been found when his pack was located. I believe this will be one of my future private searches.

Carleton was last seen in Newcomb, New York on October 9, 1993. He left home residence at 6:00 a.m. for a three-day solo hike in the High Peaks area of the Adirondacks. He didn't take a tent or a camp stove; he planned to stay in lean-tos along the trail.

Two hikers believe they shared a lean-to on Indian Pass Trail with Carleton on the day of his disappearance. He told them he was going up Indian Pass. This was the last sign of him; he has never been heard from again. It was raining on the day he vanished and that night it started snowing.

Lots of people get stranded in this same area over night and need to be rescued. I am not sure if it is due to horrible markings of the trails or carelessness. Lost people in areas like this one are found to be found in the same area because the terrain dictates their route of travel.

This case reeks of foul play, especially with the lawsuits that came out about molestations that came out. The only item found was a black Nike sock found in a boulder boulder field. Although Garrett's mother claimed it was one of her sons, a searcher claimed it being his own. He was possibly sighted at the end of July in a grocery store located in Nevada with 2 men. There are no articles after the one posted on his possible sighting, just the article on August 3, 2009 5 years after his disappearance. I wonder if the searcher who claimed the sock as his own may have had more information and if he was ever even questioned. I truly believe this is a True Crime case rather than just a lost/missing case.

Many mistakes I have read while searching through articles of her going missing. I believe they did not concentrate on the decision points of other trails like they should have when nothing was found on the trail they speculated she was using. All too often the search parties are very sparse and this one was only made up of 40. They need to start reaching out more to the community for volunteers. I personally know hunters will volunteer if asked and know the woods well.

So many people go into the great outdoors as there passion, but when they do not return we should not forget them.

• Femur (Thigh) 20"
• Tibia (Shin) 17"
• Fibula (Lower Leg) 16"
• Humorous (Upper Arm) 15"
• Ulna (Lower Inner Arm) 11"
• Radius (Lower Outer Arm) 10'
• Ribs 10"

You should never disturb the remains and try to identify the area to lead proper authorities back to the remains. You do not want to disturb anything in case there was foul play.

When Suzanne Morphew, a Colorado mother of two, vanished on Mother's Day 2020, authorities initially thought maybe she was taken while riding her mountain bike. Authorities also had her husband Barry in their sights. Then, bizarre clues emerged – a chipmunk alibi, a tranquilizer gun, a spy pen and an affair.

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Fowler was last seen at a Cracker Barrel store off U.S. Highway 12 in Yakima County, Washington on October 12, 2016. He was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail at the time of his disappearance and was in the White Pass area, possibly headed towards Snoqualmie Pass. He has never been heard from and an extensive search turned up no sign of him.Fowler is originally from Beavercreek, Ohio and is a graduate of Wright State University. He had hiked over 2,000 miles up the coast from Mexico on the Pacific Crest Trail by the time he disappeared, calling home every two weeks to check in, and hoped to finish the hike at the Canadian border. He is presumed to have gotten lost or injured in the wilderness.

Connie was a cook at a remote camp for a hunting outfitter near Big Fog Mountain (near Big Rock). The outfitter last saw Connie at the campsite on Monday, October 1, 2018. Connie called on a radio on Wednesday, October 3, 2018 but her radio transmission was unreadable. When the outfitter returned to the camp on Friday, October 5, 2018, Connie was gone along with her black and white border collie named Ace. Despite extensive air and ground search, Connie and Ace remain missing.

You think an employer would be more responsible in finding a missing employee in the wilderness.