Cold and Missing: Garrett Bardsley

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discretion is advised. I'm your host, Ali McLaughlin

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-Sulkowski. And I'm your co -host, Eli Sulkowski.

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And this is Cold and Missing, where we cover

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cold cases and missing person cases. Hello everyone

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and welcome back to Cold and Missing. I'm your

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host Allie and it will just be me coming to you

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this week. I know we took last week off and frankly

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we've taken a lot of weeks off this summer, but

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this summer, summer of 2025, has really been

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one for the books in our family. So we have definitely

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needed just the time, the space. We had dog surgeries,

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we've had weddings, we've just had trying to

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enjoy the summer. So thank you so much for being

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patient with us. We promise we will be back on

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our regularly scheduled program soon enough,

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but I wanted to get on here and bring you another

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episode this week, even though Eli, my wonderful

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husband, can't join us. I also just wanted to

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note on the topic of summer that there may be

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a little background noise that normally isn't

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there just because it is very hot where we are,

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so the AC is pumping just a little bit, so you

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might... Hear it kick on, kick off, but hopefully

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you'll be patient with us. Normally we turn it

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off, but it is just so hot right now that we

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can't let the house boil up. So if you'll indulge

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us, I'd appreciate it so much, but I think we

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should just go ahead and get into it. We are

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on a missing person case this week, and today

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we are covering the missing person case of Garrett

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Bardsley. And this takes place in the Unita Mountains

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in Utah in August of 2004. But first, a little

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bit about Garrett. Garrett Bardsley was just

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12 years old when he disappeared. He had actually

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turned 12 just a few weeks before our timeline

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picks up. He lived with his family near Elk Ridge,

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Utah, along a quiet rural road nestled between

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Elk Ridge and Salem. Garrett was the youngest

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of four siblings, and by all accounts, he was

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a shy and timid boy, but one who carried himself

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with a quiet kindness. His mother, Heidi, and

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his father, Kevin, describe him as someone who

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genuinely wanted to help others. Once, he even

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suggested to his family that they sell the family

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business so they could all live in tents and

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help more people. Garrett was a part of the Church

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of Latter -day Saints, and he looked forward

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to being a missionary and helping serve others.

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He was also a member of Boy Scout Troop 694.

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It was sponsored by the Salem 8th Latter -day

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Saint Ward. At the time he went missing, Garrett

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is 5 feet tall, weighed about 115 pounds, and

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had light brown hair and brown eyes. And now,

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a timeline of events. Thursday, August 19, 2004.

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That day, Garrett and his father, along with

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17 other boys from Troop 694 and six adults,

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were gearing up for a weekend camping trip in

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the Unita Mountains. They planned on hiking into

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the mountains for a few days and setting up camp

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near Cuberant Lake. As I mentioned, six adult

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leaders came along, and the plan was simple.

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A quiet, pressure -free weekend before the boys

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started school again. Garrett was due to start

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middle school that following Wednesday. The troop

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leaders didn't want the boys to worry about earning

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merit badges. They truly wanted the weekend to

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just be relaxing and spending time with each

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other. This wasn't Garrett's first camping trip.

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He had actually just returned from a week -long

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outing where he had even earned his wilderness

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survival merit badge. The boys and leaders hiked

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into the mountains and set up camp near the lake,

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about 10 ,000 feet above sea level, so they were

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up in the mountains. The next day, Friday, August

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20, 2004. That morning, Garrett and his dad headed

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down to Cuberant Lake to fish. Around 8 a .m.,

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Garrett slipped and stepped into the chilly water,

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soaking his shoes, socks, and pants. At first,

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he laughed when he got wet. But soon, the cold

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got to him, and his father sent him back to the

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camp to change into dry socks, shoes, and pants.

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Garrett took his fishing pole and headed back

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towards camp. He was last seen wearing a black

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hooded sweatshirt, red sweatpants, t -shirt,

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and Converse shoes. Kevin watched his son start

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back towards the camp, keeping his eyes on him

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as he made his way. The walk back to camp wasn't

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too far. about 150 yards or 137 meters for our

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overseas listeners. Kevin kept his eyes on Garrett

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as he walked. He even yelled out to him once

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when he started to veer off the path that would

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get him towards camp. Kevin says, quote, as he

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went around the lake, I watched him because that's

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what fathers do. And then I watched him go off

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into the trees. According to reports, something

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at the lake grabbed Kevin's attention, so he

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took his eyes off Garrett for a moment, and when

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he looked back, his son had disappeared into

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the trees. But Kevin wasn't panicked at this

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point. He assumed he had just walked out of eyesight

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towards the camp. About 15 minutes later, Kevin

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returned to the camp as well and learned that

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no one had seen his son. At first, he tried not

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to panic. But quickly, the adults started searching.

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Everyone in the camp assumed Garrett must be

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close by. He would be able to hear them yelling,

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or they would be able to see each other in the

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distance. However, with each passing minute,

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and with every yell that went unanswered, panic

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settled over the Boy Scout troop. By 11 a .m.,

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after nearly three hours of the Boy Scouts searching,

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the Summit County Sheriff's Office was notified.

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Rain and hail were moving into the area, so it

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was difficult to start the search, but quickly,

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police, search and rescue, and helicopters were

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launched in the area. The helicopters were equipped

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with infrared cameras to help aid in the search.

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Professional search and rescuers showed up, and

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they noted how easy it was to get turned around

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in the area where Garrett was last seen. There

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were no major landmarks, and everything kind

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of looked the same. One official said it was

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like the surface of the moon. The Boy Scout troop,

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police, search and rescue, they searched all

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day and into the evening. However, due to the

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ruggedness of the area, when darkness fell, they

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had to call the search off for the night. There

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had been no sign of Garrett since he was last

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seen walking away back to the camp. On Saturday,

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August 21st, the next day, search efforts resumed

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at first light. More crews arrived and volunteers

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started arriving to help in the search. They

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searched all day looking for a sign of Garrett.

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But again, nothing was found. The search started

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to get more intense and it was stressed how important

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it was to find Garrett. Even though it was August

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and the end of summer, the temperatures dropped

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near freezing in the mountains. Garrett was not

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dressed to handle that kind of weather, and he

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didn't have any provisions with him. He didn't

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have any food, he didn't have any water, and

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he didn't have any extra clothing to help keep

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him warm. Again, as night fell, the search was

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called off. The next day, Sunday, August 22nd,

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the search expanded to over 200 people and four

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square miles from where Garrett was last seen.

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Garrett's mother, Heidi, arrived at the mountain

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to help the search. She had been on a cruise

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with her parents, so it took some time to get

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word to her, but she got there as soon as she

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could. Years later, she'll say that when she

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arrived at the mountain, she had a feeling that

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she wouldn't be able to get Garrett out of there.

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Again, helicopters were launched and they scanned

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the area and search dogs scoured the woods. Sheriff

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Dave Edmonds told reporters, quote, not even

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a trace. The main concern now is we have to assume

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we're searching for someone who is non -responsive.

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Up until this point, searchers had been calling

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and looking for Garrett, and there had been no

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responses. The search area had been expanded

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greatly from where Garrett was last seen, and

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still no trace of him. Searchers are now focusing

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on searching for an unresponsive person, taking

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more care to check under brush and low to the

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ground. Again that night, as the search was called

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off, the temperatures dropped near freezing.

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On Monday, August 23rd, as news continued to

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spread about Garrett being missing, hundreds

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of volunteers came out to help, including hunters

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and even the Spanish Fork High School football

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team, where Garrett's older brother played. By

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the end of this day, 36 square miles had been

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searched, and officials began preparing the family

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for the worst. Still, the Bardsleys held on to

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hope that they would find Garrett. and they would

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be able to bring him off the mountain. The search

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started to shift gears the next day, so this

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is Tuesday, August 24th. Garrett has been missing

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for four days now. The search turns more technical.

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Crews checked dangerous ravines and cliffs while

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rain and snow started to move in. However, that

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day, a searcher spotted a Nike sock on a steep

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boulder field about half a mile from where Garrett

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was last seen. Sheriff Edmunds said it appeared

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to have been wadded up after being removed from

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a wet foot, which was consistent with what they

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knew about Garrett, him having stepped into the

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lake and gotten his socks and shoes wet. The

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sock looked like Garrett's other socks. However,

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it's never been confirmed if this truly was his

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sock. On Wednesday, August 25th, Garrett has

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been missing for five days. and Wednesday would

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have been his first day of middle school. Garrett's

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classmates were very aware of Garrett's absence

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that day. Back on the mountain, the search continued

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for days, starting at first light and wrapping

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up when it got dark. Professional search and

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rescue crews were working the rough terrain.

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The search also changed gears with each passing

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day. It became more of a recovery of a body than

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finding a lost Boy Scout. By Sunday, August 29th,

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Garrett had been missing for 10 days at this

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point. The search is officially called off. Sheriff

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Edmonds says, The Bardsleys were devastated that

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there had been no sign of Garrett and that there

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were so many unanswered questions. Kevin, Garrett's

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dad, wanted to keep the search going until the

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snow fell. Throughout all of fall of 2004, the

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family organized private searches almost every

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weekend until snow made it impossible. In November,

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nearly three months after Garrett went missing,

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they held a memorial service inviting community

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and volunteers to remember Garrett. In December

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of 2004, Garrett's school, family, and church

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raised nearly $17 ,000 to build a school in his

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name in Ecuador. a place he had dreamed of visiting

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to help others. The Bardsleys also founded the

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Garrett Bardsley Foundation, which was dedicated

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to helping families find their missing loved

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ones. In July of 2005, nearly a year after Garrett

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disappeared, the family started to organize one

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large -scale search, and they said this would

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be the final one unless they found something

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compelling on the mountain. Hundreds of volunteers

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joined, combing the mountain for days, searching

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for anything, clothing, a piece of his fishing

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pole, any sign at all. But nothing conclusive

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was ever found, and the Bardsleys officially

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called off their search for Garrett. Over the

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years, Garrett's case would come back into the

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media, mostly when other people got lost in the

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Unita Mountains. It's an area where others have

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gotten lost, but Garrett... is rare in that he's

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one of the only ones who has never been found.

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Others have gotten lost and died on the mountain,

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but their bodies were able to be recovered after

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a season or two. However, no sign of Garrett

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has ever been found. So with that, if you have

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any information about Garrett Bardsley, or if

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you find yourself hiking in the Unita Mountains

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and find something unusual, Garrett's family

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asked that you report it to the Summit County

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Sheriff's Office at 435 -615 -3600. So that is

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the missing person case of Garrett Bardsley.

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When I first came across Garrett's case, you

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know, I really couldn't help but think of another

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case that we've actually covered here before

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on the podcast. In episode 107, we cover the

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missing person case of Jared Negrete. And he

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was a 12 -year -old boy who went missing in mountains

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in California, not Utah. But he was also a Boy

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Scout and was also part of the Latter -day Saints

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Church. So they are similar in some ways, but

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obviously different in a lot of others. In Jared's

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case, in case you need a refresher or maybe you

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haven't listened to it, there was evidence found

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of him. They found his camera and were able to

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develop the photographs on the camera. And one

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of the last photographs seemed to be a picture

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of Jared himself. However, in this case, Garrett's

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case, like I mentioned several times throughout

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the timeline, no trace of him has ever been found.

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No clothing, not the fishing pole he had, nothing.

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For me, some of the questions that I had in this

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case, you know, as I was reading through the

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research, some of it was just like, how rugged

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is it actually in the Unita Mountains? And, you

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know, I have never seen a boulder field, you

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know, in my life. So, you know, I started Googling

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these pictures and the mountains and specifically

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the Cuberant Basin, where Cuberant Lake is, where

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Garrett was last seen. and it is very rugged

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up there a lot of hikers a lot of the searchers

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even commented on how easy it was to get turned

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around there's not major landmarks and it does

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seem like they were doing a little bit of like

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off -trail camping and hiking so that also makes

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it more difficult and it's very rugged terrain

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out there it's very difficult to get around and

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a boulder field I mean, it sounds exactly like

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it, just a field full of rocks. It really does

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kind of look like the surface of the moon, as

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one of the searchers said that I mentioned in

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the timeline. So it is very rugged, and it makes

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sense then how someone could go missing in about

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150 yards, even while his dad had his eyes on

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him for a lot of the way. It does seem like there

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was a very slim window. We know that Garrett's

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dad, you know, walked back about 15 minutes after

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him. So it's a small window where he got lost,

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just very lost to the point where he couldn't

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hear people when they called for him or see people

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or find his camp. Some of the questions that

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I have in this case, you know, if I could sit

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down and just know anything and everything about

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the case and ask all the questions of everyone

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that was there. One thing I would want to know

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is just was anybody else at the lake? Where were

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everybody when Garrett went missing? So we know

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Garrett and his dad, Kevin, they are at the lake.

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But the Boy Scouts, there's, you know, about

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16, 15 other kids. Where are they during this

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time? Are they also fishing? Are they at the

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camp? Are they doing other activities? Are they

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hiking? You know, what's going on during this

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time? Or maybe are they still sleeping? It was

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around 8 a .m. Maybe Garrett and his dad, Kevin,

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got up early to kind of go do this special on

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their own. We also know that there were six adults

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on the trip. So again, where were all the adults?

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What were they doing? And what was happening?

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Exactly. I would just love to know everyone's

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whereabouts. It definitely seems like there were

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people at the camp. We know this because when

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Kevin arrives back at the campsite, he talks

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to people and learns that they have not seen

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Garrett. He hadn't come back through. So I know

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there were some people there, but again, I just

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wonder how many people were there. Did they see

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anything? Did anybody see Garrett? I assume...

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If anybody had seen anything, they have told

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police this by now, but it's just, it's always

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bewildering to me when somebody goes missing

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in a very short distance and in a very short

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amount of time, and there's no trace of them.

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Like, this is truly like he vanished. I would

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also be curious to know, just at that time, were

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other people hiking or camping in the mountains,

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rather? You know, outside of the Boy Scouts,

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were... Was anybody else there in the woods that

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they know of? They might not know. Really rugged

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terrain. Somebody could have been there and got

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out before they even knew anybody was missing.

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But I would be curious to just know if there

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were any other people there. And just what did

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they hear? Did they hear the Boy Scouts? Could

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you hear people up there? You know, that's something

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I would be curious about. Like, does sound bounce

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around and make it confusing where it's coming

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from? Or can you... here long distances or does

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the mountain break it up I don't know I didn't

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grow up in mountains I've honestly never been

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in the mountains at all so it's very like foreign

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terrain to me it's very hard sometimes for me

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to imagine what it's really like to be in a mountain

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or a basin very interesting to me another thing

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just to kind of mention about these mountains

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and something that was kind of hard to wrap my

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brain around I mentioned it at the top but it

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is so hot right now where we are in the United

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States. So hearing about this case happening

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in late August, that's typically a pretty hot

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time here in the States. So it's hard to imagine

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an area where it gets near freezing when it's

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where I'm sitting, it's 90 degrees. But when

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I look at the unita mountains and just their

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weather today like it drops down into the 40s

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so it does get cold the weather there is another

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factor in all of this we know that the day he

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went missing rain came in hail came in and shortly

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after snow started to fall so all of that really

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made it difficult to find any sign of garrett

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i really hope in this case that somebody comes

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across some evidence of Garrett and the family

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is able to get answers. I can't imagine what

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it would feel like to have a loved one lost in

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the wilderness, to kind of feel like you know

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exactly where they should be, like he should

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be right here, and just not being able to find

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him, have hundreds of people and not be able

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to find him in a very vast area, maddening that

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it's like well he should be close by you know

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when they first noticed he went missing it's

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like he should be close by how far can you get

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in 15 -20 minutes how far can someone get but

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in these mountains again and again I saw reports

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of other people going missing other boy scouts

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went missing in this area so it is very common

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for folks to go missing but like I said before

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they are either found alive which was the case

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with other boy scouts or their bodies do turn

00:21:01.970 --> 00:21:06.450
up later but I hope in this case that the family

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is able to get answers and closure or maybe closure

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isn't quite the right word I don't know if something

00:21:14.109 --> 00:21:16.470
like this ever closes in your life but just to

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have those answers and To know where Garrett

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is, you know, if they could bring him off the

00:21:21.539 --> 00:21:24.299
mountain and lay him to rest somewhere where

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they just know he is, you know, maybe that would

00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.579
be like really special or meaningful. But his

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family has done amazing things in his name. The

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Garrett Bardsley Foundation was active up until

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2019, but they were actively helping search for

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missing people. They would show up, they would

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help organize volunteers and help organize the

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searches since they had so much experience. So

00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:54.259
this family really gave a lot to others who have

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been in this position. And, you know, I talked

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about other Boy Scouts who went missing, but

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they were part of the effort that found a Boy

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Scout after four days in the mountains alone.

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And just amazing, incredible work, incredible

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advocacy work for missing people and really using

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Garrett's name. You know, just the like unfortunate

00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.720
life experience and knowledge to like help others

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who are going through the same thing. And I think

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that's a really beautiful thing to, you know,

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turn pain into purpose almost. Like that's really

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commendable. And it was so cool to see the efforts

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that they did. So I hope the family is able to

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continue to celebrate Garrett and honor his memory

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in whatever way feels good for them. I do hope

00:22:40.950 --> 00:22:43.349
that when somebody's up there camping, they come

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across some evidence of Garrett that we can hand

00:22:47.750 --> 00:22:50.269
his family and just give them a little piece

00:22:50.269 --> 00:22:54.289
of him back. But again, if you know anything

00:22:54.289 --> 00:22:58.190
about the disappearance of Garrett Bardsley in

00:22:58.190 --> 00:23:02.650
August of 2004 or his whereabouts today, or if

00:23:02.650 --> 00:23:04.730
you find yourself hiking in the Unitas Mountains

00:23:04.730 --> 00:23:08.279
and see something unusual, please call the Summit

00:23:08.279 --> 00:23:16.880
County Sheriff's Office at 435 -615 -3600. I

00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:19.220
just wanted to take a quick second here at the

00:23:19.220 --> 00:23:21.480
end of the episode, just if you're new here or,

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:23.400
you know, maybe if you've been a longtime listener

00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:25.680
and you're just wondering why I picked Garrett's

00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:29.640
case, since it doesn't kind of fall into, you

00:23:29.640 --> 00:23:31.940
know, something nefarious necessarily happening.

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Again, This is Cold and Missing. We cover cold

00:23:35.369 --> 00:23:37.789
cases and missing people, and Garrett is a missing

00:23:37.789 --> 00:23:40.730
person. So I wanted to keep his memory alive,

00:23:40.890 --> 00:23:43.329
keep his name out there, and there's still closure

00:23:43.329 --> 00:23:46.670
that's needed for this family. So by my definition,

00:23:46.789 --> 00:23:49.329
it is absolutely a case that we should cover

00:23:49.329 --> 00:23:53.089
here and that should get attention. He's a 12

00:23:53.089 --> 00:23:55.049
-year -old boy that went missing who's never

00:23:55.049 --> 00:23:57.769
come home. I'm always going to talk about those

00:23:57.769 --> 00:24:01.130
cases. I just wanted to mention that in case

00:24:01.130 --> 00:24:02.809
you're new and kind of wondering what the vibe

00:24:02.809 --> 00:24:05.970
is I know there's not necessarily a crime element

00:24:05.970 --> 00:24:08.589
that happened here but I think all missing people

00:24:08.589 --> 00:24:12.009
deserve coverage even if there isn't you know

00:24:12.009 --> 00:24:14.670
a crime attached to their disappearance I think

00:24:14.670 --> 00:24:18.359
they deserve. to be talked about and to be looked

00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.000
after and to be looked for. So that is why we

00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:25.000
covered Garrett's case. We will have his picture

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