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website when 22-year-old Lan frun told her parents she was planning a 6- we trip to Costa Rica they kepted their
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concerns to themselves the FR family lived in the Dutch city of amesport and had never been outside of Europe with
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relatively little travel experience Lan's parents had reservations about their only daughter venturing to foreign
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country but they wanted to be supportive Lan had been struggling with self-confidence and to step outside her
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comfort zone could be exactly what she needed besides lassan was a sensible intelligent and introspective young
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woman who preferred nature and sports over partying she gave her family no reason to
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worry when the trip unexpectedly fell through Lan's parents breathed the collective sigh of relief but that
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relief was shortlived before long Lan announced the plan was back in action but the
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destination had been changed she would be going to the neighboring country of Panama
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instead in the leadup to the trip Lan sat her parents and older brother down and ran them through every step of her
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upcoming Journey she would be traveling with her close friend 21-year-old Chris Kramers A Fine Arts student with a flare
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for per performing the two had met four years prior while working at the same restaurant and they'd recently moved
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into a shared house together Chris had fallen in love with Latin America during a family vacation
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to Peru since then she'd fantasized about returning to the continent to study Spanish Chris was extroverted creative
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and outgoing complimenting Lan's quieter and more reserved personality the two friends had a shared
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Vision they didn't just want a simple vacation through typical tourist traps they wanted a special trip one that held
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significance they'd spent two weeks in the coastal Panamanian town of Bas deloro exploring the beaches while
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taking Spanish classes then it was on to the mountain region of bokete where they demmers
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themselves in the local culture and language and do some volunteer work at a daycare
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center Lan's brother deemed it unnecessary for his sister to go through their plans in such detail but that's
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just the kind of person she was organized to a tea as the big day approached Lan was
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apprehensive yet excited having spent the past few years working part-time while studying for her degree in applied
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psychology she was ready for an adventure the departing flight was scheduled for March 15 2014
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when the day came Lan checked in at Amsterdam's Skip Hall airport and stood waiting with her
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parents Chris Kramers was running late with each passing minute the ever punctual Lan grew more
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anxious Lan's parents reassured her that Chris would arrive any moment while they too had been nervous
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about the trip they now gazed at their daughter with nothing but pride and admiration when Chris finally arrived
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Lan's anxiety gave way to excitement Peter frun embraced his daughter into a tight bear hug make the
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most of it her mother said in High Spirits the two friends took off down the long hallway leading
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to their flight just before they disappeared from view Lan turned around and waved a final
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goodbye at that moment Peter relaxed it was clear to him that his daughter no longer had any hesitations
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she was ready the four parents decided to grab a quick coffee together this was the first
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time they'd ever met and with their daughters embarking on such a major adventure together it was suggested that
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they exchange phone numbers surely theyd never need to use them but just in case
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[Music] [Music] for Chris Kramers and Lan fr the trip started out like a dream after overcoming the shock of jet
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lag they spent the first leg of their journey in ring the tropical heat and Caribbean lifestyle of bakus
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deloro they took Spanish classes went island hopping and hung out with fellow Travelers they snorkled danced in a
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tropical rainstorm and ate incredible food it was unlike anything they'd ever experienced after a day trip to the
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nearby zapa Island Lan wrote in her diary I could not believe my eyes it was one big paradig I exactly like in your
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dreams even a temporary stomach bug couldn't keep Chris's Spirits down as their time in bakus Del Toro Drew to an
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end she struggled to say goodbye the time we had in bckas was really amazing Chris wrote in her diary
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we really had a holiday there I have never seen a place with such a beautiful Coastline and palm trees and such really
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super Chris and lassan arrived in B on Saturday March 29 2014 located in the western province of
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chiiki just 60 km from the Costa Rican border B is a quaint Mountain Town known for its hiking trails waterfalls coffee
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plantations and Lush scenery at 1200 m above sea level the cooler climate makes it a popular
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destination for tourists seeking nature and outdoor adventure with the significant expa
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Community B promised to Lan and Chris a unique experience without being too far off the beaten
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path the young women had arranged to stay with a local family who rented out rooms to International guests not only
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did this suit their budget it allowed them a genuine inside into local life but this culture shock quickly
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proved overwhelming for Lan on the night of their arrival she confided in her diary that she wanted to
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go home although the place was beautiful and the host family was friendly Lan felt that the switch from vacation mode
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to living the real life of a real Panamanian was too much she wrote I was way too naive to think that
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I could handle this I'm in way over my head I want mom and dad to hold me tight and tell me that everything will be all
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right but I can't let them know how I feel now because I don't want them to worry I thought I should be able to do
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this the final test before I can be really happy with myself so far I have failed
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badly Chris wrote about struggling to adapt to the new environment as well but after a decent night sleep both women
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were in better spirits they spent the next day exploring the town and checking out some
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tours advertised in the local Spanish School months prior to leaving the Netherlands they'd arranged to volunteer
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at a bokete children's center called Aura daycare both friends were looking forward to it
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immensely but when they arrived at Aura on Monday March 31 they didn't get the warm welcome they
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anticipated the staff weren't expecting the pair for another week and had no use
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for them in the me metime put off by the cold treatment they received Chris wrote in her
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diary Today Was A Strange Day we don't really want to go back to Aura anymore because we didn't feel welcome at all
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there and it was really a huge disappointment Lan's diary entry was more succinct yuck yuck yuck she wrote our
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first day was a disaster in an ATT attt to shake off their disappointment the young women
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went to the Spanish school to discuss alternative volunteer projects they found another they liked
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the sound of and hoped they could begin in the next couple of days while they waited for a response
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from the volunteer coordinator they treated themselves to a massage Chris wrote let's hope that the other project
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is really fun let's go with the Panamanian flow on the morning of Wednesday April 2 2014
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B tour guide Felician Gonzalez stood at the Spanish school waiting for Lan frun and Chris
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Kramers the previous morning the Dutch tourists had booked a tour with Feliciano to visit a nearby
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Farm a German woman named eileene who worked at the Spanish school also decided to join them but as the minutes
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ticked by there was no sign of Lan and Feliciano knew the young women was staying with a host family who lived
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just a few minutes from the Spanish school he and Eileen walked to the house to see if Chris and lisan were there and
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had perhaps got their times mixed up no one appeared to be home and the curtains
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to the guest room were pulled shut Feliciano founded the homeowner a woman named Miriam to ask if she knew
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where the Dutch women could be Miriam had no idea she said that Chris and Lan were still out when she went to bed the
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previous evening she hadn't seen them that morning either but had left them breakfast before heading off to
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work Miriam told Feliciano where he could find a spare key and gave him permission to go
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inside he entered Chris and Lan's room the room was relatively tidy and the two single beds didn't appear to
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have been slept in some of the women's personal belongings including mobile phone charges were spread out across
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their beds and the bedside table while the rest of their luggage was packed away into the
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cupboards wherever lisan and Chris were the state of their room indicated that they didn't intend to be gone for
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long Feliciano and eileene reasoned that the pair had likely changed their plans
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last minute without informing anyone they decided to check in later that day to make sure all was
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well by the time Miriam returned home from work the breakfast she'd put out for her guests remained
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Untouched by Sundown Lan and Chris still hadn't returned to mirams nor had they contacted anyone to inform them of their
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whereabouts Feliciano and eileene went to the police to report the pair missing it was the middle of the night
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in the Netherlands when Lan's mother dinny frun was awoken by the ringing of the
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phone fear washed over her as she was informed that her daughter had failed to return to her lodgings for the night
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Denny and her husband Peter called the emergency number for the travel agency that had organized Chris and Lan's
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trip The woman there assured the worried parents that the girls had likely gone out for the night and would return
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soon it was only when she started making some calls around bokete there on the fr's behalf that they realized the pair
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hadn't slept at Miriam's the previous night either it dawned on them Chris and Lan
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had already been missing for over 24 hours Denny immediately went on the hunt for the Kramer's phone number it turned
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out they'd be needing it after all by the morning of Thursday April 3 world word quickly spread throughout
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Boke that two young Dutch women were missing locals were eager to join the search but nobody knew where to look
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Chris and lisan hadn't told anyone what their plans were for the previous couple
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of days nor had they left a note in their room sent any texts or written anything in their diaries about where
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they intended on going although the two had taken smartphones with them neither device was
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equipped with a manian SIM card Chris and lisan had simply been using their phones to connect to the internet using
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Wi-Fi which was how they maintained contact with loved ones back home mobile records gave no indication
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of where they could be but a check of the Internet history at the Spanish School confirmed that the pair had
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searched for information about a popular hiking trail known as the p& star a 10-minute Drive outside of town
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the anista offers visitors the opportunity to walk to the top of the continental
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divide the trail begins across Open Fields before weaving upwards through dense forests until it reaches the
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summit known as the Mirador at roughly 65,000 ft above sea level on a clear day the Mirador offers a 360° view of the
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forest canopy stretching all the way to the ocean for the healthy able-bodied indiv
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indidual the pianista can be completed within about 5 to 6 hours it's a relatively straightforward
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albeit challenging hike with a single defined track taking individuals all the way to the summit and back down
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again many people choose to take an experienced tour guide with them but it's not unusual for travelers to do it
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without one Feliciano Gonzalez the tour guide who'd realized Chris and lisan were
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missing said that he'd offered to take the pair to the panista but they'd declined their online search history
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suggested that they might have decided to hike it [Music] alone various Witnesses reported having
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seen a pair matching Chris C Lan's description heading towards the panista on Tuesday April 1 the problem was no
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one could say with utmost certainty that the women they'd seen had definitely been the missing Dutch Duo
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Chris and lisan were both white and slender with strawberry blonde and light brown hair they looked similar to many
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of the other young European Backpackers who frequented the area complicating things further no one
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knew for sure what the pair had been wearing or carrying when they left their guest house on Tuesday morning and
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witness descriptions of their clothing varied one witness claimed to have seen Chris and lisan waiting for a taxi in
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town at around 1:45 p.m. this was supported by a taxi driver who recalled picking the pair up and
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dropping them off at a hostel called Casa Pedro shortly before 2: p.m. the hostel was about a 20-minute
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walk from the panista trail head according to the owner of the hostel the Joo asked about hiking the pianista but
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later changed their mind saying they were going to head back into town instead on the main road in front of the hiking
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trail was a restaurant called IL panista a restaurant employee claimed to have seen the pair heading up the trail
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sometime between 3 and 3:30 p.m. a dog belonging to the restaurant's owners often accompanied tourists on
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their hikes according to the employee the dog followed the women but returned later on
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alone a local woman claimed she saw Chris and lissan heading up the mountain at around 4:15 p.m. concerned that they
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weren't adequately dressed and that it was getting too late to complete the track before dark the woman warned the
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girls in Spanish not to go up the mountain alone they didn't appear to have understood volunteer search teams began
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scaring the Pista but found no sign of the missing women if Chris and lisan were indeed out there they considered
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this a little unusual although the narrow Trail was surrounded on both sides by dense forest
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it was designed with tourists in mind and therefore difficult to Veer off track the vegetation surrounding the
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trail was thick to a point of being almost impenetrable if one veered off course
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they wouldn't be able to go very far especially if they weren't appropriately dressed once bers reached the summit
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they typically turned around and headed back down the mountain the same way they
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came up had Chris or Lan gotten injured or sick during their hike Common Sense dictated that they would have likely
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just stayed where they were until someone came by the trail was managed and monitored
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by Park Rangers hikers passed through the trail every day not just tourists but locals
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and members of the indigenous tribes that lived on the other side side of the Continental
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Divide however the trail didn't technically end at the miror door on the other side of the summit a rugged
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passage LED off the tourist track and onto a precarious web of trails used almost exclusively by members of the
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indigenous norbar tribe this is where things became dicey if Lan and Chris had mistakenly
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decided to walk onwards they could have gotten lost lost especially if they'd miscalculated how much time they had
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before Sundown the trail was manageable for a while but it eventually led into a padic
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where the path became difficult to reestablish tour guide Feliciano Gonzalez was an expert on the
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panista not only did he take many tourists there his family also owned property on the other side of the
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Divide felici told the Dutch broadcasting Foundation that it wasn't possible to lose track of the trail and
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wander into the forest without noticing he said what is possible and what is a risk
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is that you forget the time and that you keep walking that trail on and on had this been the case the missing
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women were in danger of succumbing to dehydration hunger or the elements April 1 had been a warm clear
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day but once the sun set the temperature dropped significantly without appropriate gear
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or clothing hypothermia posed a genuine risk Lan had asthma and had been struggling with a bad
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cough this could have been exacerbated By changes in the altitude or exposure to the elements which would only get
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worse in the coming days as the rainy season kicked in search teams traversed the other side
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of the summit but found no sign of the missing women there either this added weight to the
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possibility that the two friends could have completed the hike without incident and disappeared
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thereafter one local business owner claimed he saw two women matching the description of Chris and lisan coming
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down the mountain in the late afternoon of April 1 looking tired and grumpy they asked for the best way to
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get back to bokete he advised them to take a taxi but he didn't see which direction they
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went or what they did from there back in the Netherlands the Kramers and frun families did all they
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could from their end they reported The Disappearance to police in amers Fort notified Interpol and created a Facebook
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page appealing for information as the search gained momentum the families reassured
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themselves that the duo would likely turn up soon with a valid explanation but as the search reached
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its fourth fruitless day concerns heightened Panama's National civil protection unit cpro took over the
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mission and called for all the volunteer search parties to stand down working on the belief that the pair
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were lost in the wilderness a map was created of all the possible locations that Chris and lisan might have
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visited 25 rots throughout the baru national park that surrounded the panista were identified with a team of
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40 cpro Rescuers and 35 Agents from the National Police tasked with conducting the
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search sniffer dogs were also brought in but after a week of dry clear weather rainy conditions added an extra
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challenge to the already difficult exploration it also increased the fears for Chris and Lan's well-being
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while the trails could have been manageable at first the intense rain turned them into muddy unforgiving
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passageways the Babbling streams transforming into rushing Rivers some small vacant Huts along the
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trails could have provided adequate shelter but these were checked and no signs were found to indicate Chris and
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lisan had stayed within if they'd sought shelter in a cave or crevice somewhere this would only make them more difficult
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to find mind with any screams for help most likely being absorbed by the surrounding
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jungle members of Chris and Lan's families flew to Panama to join the search efforts in a bid to encourage
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indigenous people from the other side of the Continental Divide to continue the search they announced a $25,000
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reward still the days ticked by with no leads some started to criticize cenpro approach calling for the search to be
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expanded beyond the national park and to other areas the missing women might have
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headed to if the Dutch women had made it back from the panista officials could be
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wasting precious Time by not properly exploring other options by April 14 two weeks had passed
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with no breakthroughs if Chris and lisan were out in the wilderness their chances of
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survival at this point were Slim the Intensive search was scaled back with the investigation handed over to
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the public Ministry Panamanian and Dutch authorities worked collaboratively to generate leads and provide support to
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the families but as each day passed with no new information emerging the belief that
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Chris and lisan were lost gave way to a new prevailing theory that the pair had met with Foul
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Play the possibility of fair play had been considered from the outset of the investigation but it was only when no
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evidence emerged to suggest otherwise that it really started gaining traction the fair play theory was mostly
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born from the belief that Chris and lisan would have never willingly ventured into the formidable Trails on
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the other side of the panista summit these were intelligent women who knew they were unprepared for an
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extended period of time in the wilderness as a lawyer hired by the kramis family later told The Daily
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Beast I hiked at myself the whole Trail I saw it with my own eyes they would never have wanted to go on down into
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that hell furthermore if one of the women had gotten sick or injured it made sense to
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think that the other one would have managed to follow the trail back to safety as investigative journalist Peter Dev
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told a Dutch current affairs program a vanon d it was plausible to think that one of the women could have slipped and
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fallen into a ravine making them difficult to find it was less likely that this would happened to them
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both given that neither Chris Lan or any of their belongings had resurfaced during the search Peter said you have to
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consider the possibility that a third party had a hand in it the search for the missing women
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shifted gears into a criminal investigation there were two leading theories the first was that Chris and
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Lan had encountered a perpetrator while hiking the pianista who had forced them down the other side of the
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mountain tourists had been robbed on the trail before so it didn't seem farfetched to consider that something
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more Sinister could have taken place the second theory was that Chris and Lan had successfully completed their
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hike and it was upon their return to town that they met with f play and were taken to another
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location Chris's father told reporters we are extremely worried what worries us most is that somebody could
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have taken them away with an evil purpose rumors swelled that the pair could have been kidnapped for rantom
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were being held captive or had been murdered by an opportunistic Predator as part of a sexually or financially
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motivated attack the more extreme rumors speculated that they could have been sold by sex traffickers taken by drug
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cartels killed by organ Harvesters or Fallen victim to a serial killer although there was no evidence to
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support any particular Theory Chris and Lan's families were taking no Chances with with the investigation
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turned criminal they began handing out flyers and Plastering life-sized banners with their daughters faces on them
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around B they hired a private investigator and created an organization called the
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foundation to find lisan and Chris calling for donations from the public to help fund their ongoing search
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efforts appearing at an informal press conference Peter frun told reporters dear lisan and Chris please
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know that we will stay here in Panama until you have been found we will wait as long as it takes and we will not give
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up really we won't have faith in us Chris's mother Roy refused to believe the worst had happened to get her
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through the days she repeated a mantra over and over in her head she's alive and she will be found she's alive and
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she will be found the families increased the reward for information to $30,000 this was a significant amount in
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Panama enough to ensure a comfortable life while the previous reward was motivation for volunteers to join the
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search the revised amount was intended to entice individuals to report suspicious activity among their close
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circles Denny frun told reporters the coverage has to get bigger there must be people here who know
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something the boosted reward led to an influx of tips including an unsubstantiated report that two
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decomposing bodies had been found in the jungle nothing brought investigators any
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closer to the truth and with more leads trickling in it became harder for them to stay on top of
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things the people of B were deeply affected by what was going on it was a small community and they felt
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great Sympathy for the loved ones of the missing women as the sixth week past without a
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solid lead emerging residents organized a silent March in honor of Chris and lisan the families thanked the people of
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Panama for their heartfelt support and announced that they'd be working closely with the newly assigned State prosecutor
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bider pity who specialized in criminal cases citizen of amamos Fort also rallied behind the families with various
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organizations holding fundraisers to raise money for the foundation to find lisan and
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Chris by late May B's rainy season was in full swing specialist rescue dogs were flown in from the Netherlands but
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their search was hindered by heavy rainfall despite these challenges the Dutch teams trudged on for 8 days before
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concluding that there was nothing to indicate that Chris and lisan were anywhere in the mountains of
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boret their parents were at a loss for what to do next by the time the K9 team returned to the Netherlands on June 4
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Chris and lisan had been missing for over 2 months and not a single clue had emerged to suggest what had happened to
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them if they weren't in the mountains then where were they worried sick the families decided
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to return to the Netherlands where they could organize more help and figure out their next
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steps they didn't have to wait for long they'd barely been home a week when finally there was the first big break in
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the [Music] case imma mirando was a member of the indigenous nor tribe she lived in the
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remote Village of Alto Romero which was roughly a 12-hour Trek North from the of
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the panista on Wednesday June 11 2014 10 weeks after Chris and Lan were last scene yma was washing clothes in the Rio
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kbra known to English speakers as the serpent River the freshwater river earned its name for the snake-like way
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it spiraled through the region Emma caught sight of something wedged between some Driftwood and rocks
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of the riverbank she went to take a closer look it was a backpack inside among other items was an
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insurance card imma was all too aware that two Dutch women had recently gone missing
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from the area when she saw the name on the card she recognized it immediately lisan
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FR Emar and her husband took the backpack to the home of a local cattle rancher who contacted the authorities on
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their behalf the following day a helicopter was dispatched to Ala Romero to collect
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the lightweight Burton brand a day pack save for some dirt scratch marks and discoloration it was in relatively good
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condition one of the straps was partially loose and there were some small holes and tears but the contents
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remained intact this included Lan's Samsung Galaxy smartphone Chris's iPhone l an's
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digital camera two bras two pairs of sunglasses a water bottle and $83 in cash lisan was an amateur photographer
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and she'd been using the Canon PowerShot sx270 camera to document their trip since the
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beginning the camera contained a 16 GB memory card which was still accessible despite being exposed to
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water investigators watched with anticipation as the images began to load the photos proved that lisan and
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Chris did indeed hike the P star on Tuesday April 1 2014 but the pictures didn't align with
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the witness sightings that had previously been provided a taxi driver said he dropped
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the Dutch women off near the Pista just before 2: p.m. with various Witnesses then claiming to have seen the the duo
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climbing up the mountain between 3 and 4:15 p.m. each of the photos contained a digital time stamp which proved that
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they'd actually started the hike at 11:00 a.m. straight off the bat this debunked the timeline that investigators
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had been working with since the very start of the women's disappearance from Chris and Lan's
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attire it was clear they didn't set out for anything other than a leisurely hike
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both women were dressed in shorts and tank tops carrying nothing between them except Lan's
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backpack they wore hiking boots but had no hats jackets or protective gear lisan captured the scenery as they
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made their way up the trail with Chris often stopping to pose ahead of her it was a bright sunny day and the
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two friends looked happy metadata showed that they reached the Mirador Summit at 1:00
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p.m. a series of elated selfies captured Chris and lisan grinning proudly as they
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gave the thumbs up symbol showing off the Epic landscape stretching behind them up until this point there was
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nothing out of the ordinary about their actions and their photos indicated they were alone on the
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trail but from there on in that all changed photos showed that Chris and lisan did indeed travel onwards down the
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indigen Trails on the other side of the Divide away from b a photo taken after they'd left the
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summit showed Chris crossing over a stream and heading further downhill Specialists familiar with the
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area identified this spot as less than an hour's hike from the top of the summit in the wrong
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direction there was nothing in the pictures to indicate why they'd continued onwards but some interpreted
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the expression on 's face as no longer being happy and carefree from there things only got
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stranger for 8 days there were no more photos then on Tuesday April 8th at 1:29 a.m. the camera sprung back into
00:36:47
action over a period of almost 3 hours 90 similar images of near tootal Darkness were
00:36:55
captured some were taken just Seconds Apart others several minutes only one image captured anything
00:37:04
other than Blackness it was the back of someone's head presumably Chris Kramer her long
00:37:11
strawberry blonde hair filling the entire shot in a bid to make sense of the nighttime photos investigators resized
00:37:22
the images and manipulated their brightness levels although they were still done
00:37:27
dark this allowed them to make out some of the items in the frame numerous bright specs indicated it
00:37:34
had been raining at the time the photos were taken which aligned with the recorded weather patterns from the time
00:37:40
in question several of the images captured what appeared to be trees foliage moss
00:37:46
covered rocks and large Boulders in one photo a twig with red plastic attached to it had been placed
00:37:54
on the rock face seemingly intentionally like some kind of marker another photo captured several
00:38:02
pieces of what looked like intentionally torn up rubbish sitting on the rock face from the positioning of the angle
00:38:10
it appeared that the photos had been taken by someone who was either sitting or lying down and facing the camera
00:38:16
slightly upwards most of the images had been taken with a steady hand indicating they
00:38:23
were intentional and not taken under duress then natural surroundings suggested the images had been taken on a
00:38:30
rivered or Cliff face but there was no clear Landmark to indicate exactly where a straight line visible in some of
00:38:39
the photos was speculated to be a cable from one of the few makeshift bridges known as monkey bridges used by the
00:38:46
indigenous locals to cross from one side of the serpent River to the other this bridge was deep into the
00:38:54
forest several miles from where the last fot photo of Chris was taken on April 1 with the back of Chris's head visible
00:39:03
in one shot it was plausible to assume Lan was the one taking the photos but this couldn't be said with
00:39:11
certainty as she didn't appear in a single image furthermore because Chris's face wasn't visible there was nothing to
00:39:19
prove what kind of state she was in or that she was even alive at the time the photo was
00:39:25
taken a week had passed between the last photo of Chris crossing the stream and the nighttime images yet Chris's hair
00:39:34
appeared clean and dry nothing in the photos or the backpack presented a single clue as to
00:39:41
what had happened to the women during that unaccounted for chunk of time if they had gotten lost or injured why
00:39:49
suddenly take 90 photos a week later in the middle of the night no less [Music] some of the mysterious nighttime photos
00:40:00
were published in the media prompting a deluge of theories from members of the public as to what they could
00:40:06
mean theories ranged from the Practical to the supernatural with many comparing the images to scenes from the
00:40:13
supernatural horror film The Blair Witch Project some speculated that lisang could have been using the flash of her
00:40:21
camera as a source of light and had simply been taking the photos to get a better view of her surroundings
00:40:28
the problem with this theory was that the images had all been taken from practically the same spot the
00:40:35
photographer didn't seem to be attempting to move or find their way around others speculated that lisan or
00:40:43
Chris could have been using the flash of the camera to signal for help but this didn't explain why the images had been
00:40:50
taken from underneath foliage if the women were trying to grab someone's attention it made sense to
00:40:56
assume that would have moved out into the open if they were physically able to others theorized that Chris and lisan
00:41:05
knew they were about to die and were taking the photos as some kind of message to whoever found the
00:41:11
camera but Lan's camera had plenty of battery life left on it and was also capable of taking
00:41:18
videos if they were on the brink of death why not take a clearer photograph or record a message for their families
00:41:25
explaining what had happened to them with no such message this led to the more Sinister
00:41:33
theories what if it wasn't Lan or Chris who took the photos at all but someone else
00:41:47
entirely with none of the photos providing any definitive answers about what happened to Chris Kramers and Lan
00:41:53
frun all possibilities remained open with the discovery of the backpack at the very least investigators now had a
00:42:01
specific area to hone in on the portion of the serpent river near Alto Romero was particularly difficult
00:42:09
to reach and even harder to navigate while members of cpro were dispatched to join the search a team of
00:42:17
locals from the nor tribe led by tour guide Feliciano Gonzalez also began scouring the area as they knew the
00:42:25
forest better than anyone just days after the backpack was recovered on Wednesday June 18 they were
00:42:33
scaring the riverbank a little further Upstream from where the backpack was found when they were hit with a distinct
00:42:40
smell following the odor behind a tree they found a woman's hiking boot its laces is still tied and the intact
00:42:48
remains of a left foot inside on the other side of the riverbed was the left part of a human pelvis bone
00:42:58
while the bones were taken away for forensic testing a member of the nor search party headed further up the river
00:43:05
back towards the second monkey bridge in the area there they found Chris Kramer's
00:43:11
denim shorts unzipped and unbuttoned reports differ as to where exactly this discovery was made and
00:43:19
whether the shorts were in the water or on the riverbank regardless it led to the
00:43:24
question of how they came to be there had Chris intentionally taken them off for some reason had she Fallen while
00:43:32
attempting to cross the river or had they been forcibly removed DNA testing confirmed that the
00:43:40
foot was lan fres the broken pelvic bone was later confirmed to have come from Chris
00:43:48
Kramer with confirmation that the Joo were deceased but still nothing to clarify what happened to them the
00:43:55
investigation was declared a crime against personal Integrity for the families this news was
00:44:02
met with mixed feelings on one hand they were relieved to finally have some answers about where
00:44:08
the two women had ended up on the other hand they were plagued by questions about how they got there and who or what
00:44:16
caused their deaths the families announced that they intended to continue the search until it
00:44:23
became clear what happened a statement released on their behalf said too many questions remain unanswered for the
00:44:31
families to find peace of mind too little has been uncovered from Chris and alisan to give up the search or to be
00:44:38
able to say their farewells we will focus our attention on two different aspects of the search what
00:44:45
exactly happened to Chris and lisan and what can we recover from them we want to figure out what exactly
00:44:53
happened to them and whether third parties have been involved with poor weather hindering the search
00:45:01
of the already inhospitable area the parents said they were waiting to see what data could be recovered from their
00:45:07
daughter's Electronics they thanked the public media and Panamanian authorities for
00:45:13
their ongoing support but requested that the Press refrain from speculation and stick to the
00:45:20
[Music] facts it took weeks before any usable data could be extracted Ed from the
00:45:27
smartphones belonging to Chris and lissan when it finally was this only raised more
00:45:34
questions the last photo of Chris Kramers which showed her walking onwards down the mountain had been taken at 1:54
00:45:42
p.m. on April 1 2014 call logs revealed that at 4:39 p.m. Chris's iPhone was used to call 112
00:45:53
the international Emergency Services number for the European Union this emergency number was designed to be
00:46:00
accessible even without a SIM card and also worked overseas but the call failed to connect due to lack of
00:46:08
reception 12 minutes later Lan Samsung was also used to call 112 this too was unsuccessful both phones were switched
00:46:19
off shortly after investigators failed to make sense of this the call log indicated that
00:46:27
something bad must have happened in the 2 and 1/ half hours between the last photo being taken and the first
00:46:33
emergency call being placed but nothing on the camera or the phones indicated what that could have
00:46:40
been this raised the question what could be serious enough to Warrant calling emergency services waiting 12 minutes
00:46:48
before trying again and then giving up entirely the following morning on April 2 both phones were powered back on and
00:46:58
used to call both 112 and the local emergency number 911 again the calls failed due to lack
00:47:06
of reception and were switched back off Lan's phone was switched on that evening and left on overnight but no
00:47:15
further calls were made from this device it was turned on and off intermittently the following day before
00:47:22
the battery went flat on the morning of April 4 Chris's iPhone made its last attempt
00:47:28
to call 911 on the morning of April 3 after that it was switched on and off a few times each day presumably seeking
00:47:38
a signal but no calls were made and at no point did it connect with a local cell phone
00:47:44
tower a pin code was needed to access Chris's iPhone on the morning of April 5 the PIN code was entered correctly for
00:47:53
the last time that night and the following day of April 6 the iPhone was turned on and off
00:48:01
but the correct pin code was never punched in again the phone remained off for the
00:48:07
next 5 days including on April 8th the date The Unexplained night photos were taken on April 11 the iPhone was
00:48:17
switched back on at 10:50 a.m. without the PIN code being entered an hour later at 11:50 a.m. the
00:48:25
iPhone was turned on off for good despite still having battery power neither of the phones contained
00:48:32
any clues such as goodbye messages unsent texts or voice memos to explain what had happened after the women
00:48:40
crossed the mirror door investigators couldn't figure out why the attempts to use the phones had
00:48:46
been so sporadic had Chris and lisan been in genuine trouble one would assume there would have been more attempts to
00:48:54
get service and call for help earlier on and why all of a sudden was Chris's pin code no longer entered
00:49:02
correctly was this simply because she switched the phone on and then off again upon realizing she couldn't get a signal
00:49:09
or was it because Chris herself was no longer in possession of the phone if Chris had perished and Lan was
00:49:17
in fact the one trying to use the iPhone how did that explain photos of the back
00:49:21
of Chris's head Taken 3 days later it wasn't just the phone data that had investigators scratching their heads as
00:49:33
the Dutch team scrutinized the data from Lan's camera they realized that one image was missing from the
00:49:41
sequence the image of Chris crossing the stream on the afternoon of April 1 had been labeled as photo number
00:49:48
508 photo number 510 was the first of the nighttime shots taken on April 8 Photo 5 9 the image that bridged the
00:49:58
gap between the normal daytime photos and the Mysterious nighttime photos was [Music]
00:50:06
missing when a photo is manually deleted off a digital camera the file can usually be restored using special
00:50:13
software when connected to a computer despite significant efforts the Dutch experts were unable to restore
00:50:20
deleted image 509 analysis of Lan's camera determined she wasn't in the habit of deleting
00:50:28
photos herself even if they weren't the best shots so it seemed unlikely that she had deleted it on
00:50:35
purpose speaking to the AOSS TV network one Dutch investigator said photo 509 could give us a clue as
00:50:45
to what happened and it is a real shame that we have not been able to retrieve anything from this photo we do not know
00:50:52
when this photo was taken whether on April 1st or at another moment moment in time or why it was
00:51:01
deleted a glitch in the system seemed unlikely as experts could typically restore at least a fraction of a deleted
00:51:09
photo this led to speculation that it could have been permanently deleted by Panamanian investigators who first had
00:51:16
access to the camera either by accident or on purpose B's economy relied on tourism if
00:51:25
the pitcher captured something incriminating that could deter people from visiting the area some believed the
00:51:31
authorities had a good reason to want to keep it quiet by late August 2014 several more
00:51:41
bones were found scattered further Downstream of the serpent River one was confirmed to have come from Chris
00:51:48
Kramer's right rib while two others were identified as Lan fr's femur and tiia no official reports have ever been
00:51:57
released regarding the autopsies but some of the information has been laked to the media by Anonymous
00:52:05
sources Dutch author Jurgen snorin was given access to the full case File while researching the story for a book he coo
00:52:13
called Lost In the Jungle according to Jurgen Lan's metat tasal Bones the small bones at the
00:52:20
Forefront of her foot were fractured in three places signs of healing indicated these
00:52:26
fractures had occurred while Lan was still alive both of her leg bones showed signs
00:52:32
of perotis this condition is caused by repetitive stress and it results in inflammation of the tissue surrounding
00:52:40
the tibia symptoms include intense pain limited Mobility fever and chills combined with the broken bones in
00:52:49
her feet this meant Lan wouldn't have been able to walk very far after sustaining the
00:52:55
injuries but what caused those injuries and when remained up for speculation the marrow in Lan's leg
00:53:04
bones was still intact indicating the bones were only in the early stage of decomposition this was in stark contrast
00:53:12
to the condition of Chris's rib bone which was pale white or what some describe as being
00:53:19
bleached bone bleaching can be caused by two things extended exposure to sunlight or
00:53:26
exposure to a chemical such as lime lime can occur naturally in the environment and is a key ingredient in
00:53:34
fertilizer but it can also be used in criminal cases to speed up human decomposition none of the bones provided
00:53:43
a clear indication as to what caused Chris or Lan's death Lan's autopsy determined that her broken metattoo
00:53:51
bones were likely caused by a fall from a high place but this couldn't be said with
00:53:58
certainty such injuries can also result from repeated stress or by being crushed
00:54:03
with a hard object breaks like the one in Chris's pelvis could also be attributed to a
00:54:09
fall from a great height but this bone showed no signs of healing indicating she was likely already dead when this
00:54:16
injury occurred ultimately none of the bones showed any signs of violence this detail combined with the
00:54:25
data from the camera and phones gave the Panamanian authorities enough information to release an official
00:54:32
ruling they determined that Chris and Lan had likely gotten lost after venturing onwards past the peak of the
00:54:40
panista at some point they either fell to their deaths or succumbed to a combination of injuries hunger
00:54:48
exhaustion and the elements had they died near the riverbank their remains could have
00:54:54
started to decompose before the rising water levels caused by heavy rainfall eventually reached them and carried them
00:55:01
away in the river contact with rocks Boulders and scavengers eventually led to their bodies breaking into pieces and
00:55:09
being scattered throughout the majority of the remains likely flowed into the larger tribues of
00:55:16
the changala river never to be recovered the Kramers family wouldn't accept this
00:55:26
explanation there were simply too many unanswered questions if the pair got lost why
00:55:33
didn't they leave anything to mark their presence on the trail how could they have been out there for so long without
00:55:40
crossing paths with at least one of the 20 or so locals cattle ranchers or tour guides who passed through the area each
00:55:47
week while also going undetected by search parties Chris's parents Hans and Ry hired a local team and set out on a hike
00:55:57
over the pianista to see it with their own eyes They concluded there was no way Chris and Lan could have gotten lost
00:56:05
that first day even if they'd ventured a few hours Beyond The Summit to them the trail was clear the
00:56:13
entire way and there was nowhere one could sustain an immobilizing fall in a time frame consistent with the emergency
00:56:21
calls they didn't discount the possibility that Chris and lisan had first Emergency Services because they'd
00:56:28
crossed paths with someone with Criminal Intent a forensic anthropologist who worked on the investigation also
00:56:37
disagreed with the official ruling speaking anonymously to The Daily Beast they said that the bones showed no
00:56:44
signs of animal Scavenging or any marks to indicate they'd been broken up by River
00:56:50
Rocks they didn't believe it was possible that the bodies could have become completely detached within just
00:56:56
seven or8 weeks or that Chris's remains had been exposed to sunlight long enough
00:57:01
for bleaching to have occurred naturally as another forensic expert told The Daily Beast an American hiker
00:57:09
who died in the same Forest under similar circumstances was found 2 years after going missing his skeleton was
00:57:17
still 90% intact and none of his bones showed any signs of bleaching the only explanation some
00:57:24
argued was human intervention the Kramers urged the Panamanian authorities to hold on to
00:57:32
Chris's remains and keep the case open until more thorough conclusions could be drawn meanwhile lisan fr's remains were
00:57:41
returned to the Netherlands and she was forly laid to rest with her family saying it was with great pain in their
00:57:48
hearts that they had to let Lan go the Kramers felt that enough of Chris's remains hadn't yet been found to
00:57:55
warrant to burial with her mother telling Dutch reporters it is very difficult to say
00:58:01
goodbye when you have so little of your daughter and when you have the feeling that more is to be
00:58:09
found in January 2015 a Dutch forensic team traveled to Panama at the request of the kramis
00:58:16
family aided by local guides and sniffer dogs they followed the trail Chris and Lan were known to have walked and they
00:58:25
too concluded it was highly unlikely the pair had gotten lost lead investigator Frank vanderhart
00:58:33
said the area where this is supposed to have taken place simply does not lend itself to getting lost anyone who
00:58:41
suggests getting lost as a real possibility can be said with certainty that they have never physically crossed
00:58:47
the route in question yet the team also ruled out Foul Play concluding the geographic
00:58:56
conditions the social conditions and the technical facts as emerged from the forensic investigation make a crime in
00:59:03
the form of a robbery sex crime violent crime or kidnapping very unlikely they determined the most
00:59:13
probable explanation was that lisan and Chris had slipped somewhere towards the end of the Mountain's descent landing
00:59:19
near the riverbed where the night photos were later Taken according to the Dutch team quote
00:59:27
in the event of a fall at this location there is a huge height difference of 30 to 40 m which makes the risk of injury
00:59:35
very likely moreover the stream is surrounded on both sides by waterfalls and the bed
00:59:41
is surrounded by a steeper rock wall of several meters they concluded that climbing out
00:59:48
would have been near impossible without the proper tools leading to eventual death given the changing water level and
00:59:56
the amount of time that had passed since the two friends disappeared the Dutch team deemed it unlikely that any more of
01:00:02
their remains would ever be uncovered seemingly satisfied with this explanation Chris's family announced
01:00:11
they would finally arrange a funeral in a statement released on their website they
01:00:17
said as a family we are relieved that we now finally have a possible and plausible explanation for all the
01:00:24
questions we had surrounding ing Chris's death we would like to thank everyone who has worked to find an answer to the
01:00:31
question of what could happen to Chris and lisan since their disappearance on April 1 last year for their dedication
01:00:38
and commitment to achieving this result together with us despite this conclusion the
01:00:47
mysterious disappearance of Chris Kramers and Lan frun remains a hotly debated topic among reporters amateur
01:00:54
sleuths and forensic professionals even the lawyer hired by the Kramers family Enrique oroa believed
01:01:02
something more suspicious was a play in 2016 he told The Daily Beast the official version of the story
01:01:11
makes no sense the evidence seems to have been manipulated in order to hide something at the very least there should
01:01:19
have been a criminal investigation Enrique wanted to take the case to the international Court of
01:01:26
justice but the cram is firmly declined countless online message boards are dedicated to a wide array of
01:01:34
theories with individuals putting hours of their own time into conducting their own detailed Research into various
01:01:41
elements of the case every facet has been thoroughly pulled apart and examined by online sleuths with
01:01:48
suspicion cast on certain individuals who cropped up during the course of the investigation allegations that lisan and
01:01:56
Chris were killed by locals and the crime was then covered up by various towns folk have been fueled by such
01:02:02
events as the taxi driver who claimed to have dropped the duo at the trail also dying under suspicious circumstances
01:02:09
just a year later almost every possibility has been speculated and debated including
01:02:16
far-fetched Supernatural theories and the outlandish possibility that the pair crossed paths with
01:02:24
cannibals proponents of the the fa playay Theory cite various unusual elements for why they didn't accept that
01:02:30
Chris and lisan died as a result of accident or misadventure at the core is the belief
01:02:37
that the Joo wouldn't have wandered so far down the other side of the mountain at their own free
01:02:42
will many believe the women were ordered down were running away from someone or were captured and held captive somewhere
01:02:50
before being murdered others believe they left the panista and were then met with fou play
01:02:58
but as Skeptics to this Theory argue what was the motive no Ransom was ever demanded and
01:03:06
Lan's backpack still contained electronics and $83 in cash ruling out theft or financial gain if the crime was
01:03:15
sexually motivated why would a violent perpetrator let them keep possession of their
01:03:20
phones why didn't they destroy the camera and how could a killer have navigated the treacherous Forest while
01:03:29
also maintaining control over two grown women and avoiding detection by the search
01:03:35
parties to many if the deaths really were an accident it simply didn't make sense that Chris and Lan had been found
01:03:43
in pieces that so few of their remains had been recovered and that they were in such varying stages of
01:03:50
Decay how could their remains be so damaged while the possessions in their backpack were perfectly
01:03:58
intact several forensic professionals journalists and survival experts have voiced their skepticism about these
01:04:05
facts yet in direct contrast others in the same Fields have said the different rates of decomposition are to be
01:04:14
expected talking to the Daily Beast forensic anthropologist Dr Kathy Rex explained that the rainforest Chris and
01:04:22
Lan perished in had many micro environments there differences in river currents Flora growth animal Scavenging and sun
01:04:30
exposure could result in body parts decomposing at different rates some resources also say that the
01:04:38
bones did show signs of animal Scavenging and that Chris's bone bleaching was well within expected
01:04:44
natural parameters either way the question remains as to why neither of the women
01:04:51
left behind a photo video message or clue to explain what happened to them especially as the days progressed and
01:04:59
their situation became more dire in a case where every detail leads to more questions many agree that the
01:05:08
Panamanian authorities poorly handled the case from the outset one of the biggest issues is that
01:05:14
a proper chain of custody was never established and adequate care wasn't taken to protect the forensic Integrity
01:05:21
of the evidence for example it has been reported that as many his 30 foreign fingerprints were found on Lan's
01:05:28
backpack and belongings that were never recorded or tested these failures along with the
01:05:34
lack of transparency has led to ongoing accusations of corruption and a criminal
01:05:39
cover up Adela corat a journalist for leading Panamanian newspaper La estraya told The
01:05:47
Daily Beast quote it's a sad fact but serious investigation was never done by the
01:05:55
public min Ministry everything had to be hushed up to protect tourism the victims deserve justice and
01:06:03
the families deserve to know what really [Music] happened another of the major problems
01:06:11
with this case is that over the years many details have been either lost or misinterpreted in Translation as
01:06:18
information Cycles between Dutch Spanish and English this coupled with the lack of
01:06:24
official information that has been released has led to incorrect details being continuously
01:06:30
regurgitated as fact resulting in widespread misinformation one such example is that
01:06:37
in October 2014 an article published by lraa claimed that when Lan's thigh bones
01:06:44
were recovered a ball of her skin was also found which barely showed any signs of
01:06:51
decomposition however the skin was later determined to have come from an animal La australa updated their original
01:06:59
article but this myth about Lan's so-called ball of skin continues to be regurgitated and used to propel
01:07:08
speculation another widely misconstrued detail is that Chris's denim shorts were
01:07:13
found zipped and neatly folded on a rock Dutch correspondent Mark bessam was living in Panama when Chris and lissan
01:07:22
first went missing he explained to the Dutch broadcasting Foundation that many of the
01:07:28
rumors circulating around bokete were picked up in the Netherlands and reported by the press as proper
01:07:34
facts Mark said for the first time in my career I was in the middle of a media storm in
01:07:42
practice this means that you have to correct incorrect messages from the Netherlands very often the truth is that
01:07:50
we know few facts as difficult as it is to accept we simply did not know and to this day we simply do not know exactly
01:08:01
what happened opinions on Panama's handling of this case differ as widely as the
01:08:08
theories about what happened to the Dutch women lead prosecutor bider pity has come under Fire for what many view as a
01:08:17
botched investigation While others praise investigators in what's been called one of the biggest search and
01:08:23
rescue missions ever undertaken in Panama the Kramers have voiced a disappointment
01:08:29
with both sides of the investigation in 2019 Chris's father Hans told Dutch magazine PR that he
01:08:38
could write an encyclopedia about all the mistakes that were made saying there were many loose ends in my
01:08:46
opinion and that of many others many mistakes have been made I can still get very mad about it but what's the point
01:08:56
there's no point in talking in hindsight we have to live with the fact that our daughter is no longer
01:09:05
here there is still some debate about the area where the nighttime photos were taken if the location designated by both
01:09:13
the Dutch and Panamanian forensic teams is correct it raises The Haunting possibility that a search team passed by
01:09:21
Chris and lissan a few days after they disappeared at a time they phone activity indicates at least one of them
01:09:27
was still alive in 2017 Peter frun told BNN documentary Break Free that rescue dog
01:09:37
signified that they sensed something at the time but it wasn't a strong enough indication for their handlers to pursue
01:09:44
it Chris's brother publicly shut this possibility down saying the search team were only in the area weeks later at a
01:09:52
time when Chris and lisan were no longer alive it is understood that the Kramers and fr
01:09:59
families have differing opinions about the case and have parted ways regardless neither of them
01:10:06
supported A Renewed investigation with both families choosing to move on and accept the fact that Chris and lissan
01:10:13
are no longer here when the pair were still missing the kramis family kept a small Shrine
01:10:20
for Chris adorned with photos candles and a postcard she sent from pan which they called the table of
01:10:28
Hope after it was confirmed that Chris was no longer alive they maintained to the shrine but renamed it Chris's little
01:10:37
place Chris's father told pre magazine we picked life back up and will think about our dear daughter every day
01:10:46
no matter what nobody can take that feeling away from us Lan's family accept C the theory that
01:10:56
the girls died by accident as Lan's Brother Martin told the hosts of The Dutch talk show
01:11:03
pal if there is anything positive that I can take from this whole story it is that they died a natural
01:11:11
death I do not want to think about a scenario where they ended up in prostitution or in the hands of human
01:11:18
traffickers or something back when Chris and Lan first went missing there was nothing at the
01:11:26
top of the panista summit to Mark the peak of the trail a sign has since been erected warning tourists not to go any
01:11:34
further alongside it sits a memorial for Lan frun and Chris Kramers which lists the date of their deaths as April 1 the
01:11:44
day they went missing over the years some of criticized Lan and Chris for making a
01:11:51
naive decision to venture Into the Wilderness without taking the right precautions the FR family rejects this
01:11:59
notion instead praising The Bravery the pair showed when the odds were stacked against
01:12:04
them Chris's Brother Martin told the breakf free documentary things are said so easily
01:12:12
without thinking when someone gets his wallet stolen in the center of Amsterdam you can't say that that person probably
01:12:19
deserved it because he hadn't been more careful or naive or dumb for keeping his
01:12:24
wallet in his pocket such things just happen and a big fat bad luck when you look closely at Chris and
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Lan's nature and in which manner they made choices in life then I just know that they made the right
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decision by deciding to take the step and to go and do something beautiful [Music]
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