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Episode 37 - Jared Negrete - San Bernardino National Forest - California is live! Listen directly at: https://locationsunknown.podbean.com/e/ep-37-jared-negrete-san-bernardino-national-forest-california/
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July 19th, 1991, 13 year old Jared Negrete was on an overnight backpacking trip with the Boy Scouts in the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California.Β On a hike to the summit of Mt. San Gorgonio, Jared fell behind the group and was asked to stay behind and wait.Β The group planned to get Jared on the way down but Jared was gone.Β The only item recovered during the search was a disposable camera with an eerie partial selfie of Jaredβs face at night.
To help describe the search effort, we sat down with Rick Maschek, a SAR member of the San Bernardino County Sheriffβs Desert Rescue Squad, who spent over a week searching for Jared in 1991.Β Join us this week as we try to piece together what happened to Jared Negrete.
At 8 a.m. on a July 31 in 2004, David Gonzales asked his mother if he could have the car keys. There was a box of cookies in the car, and he wanted a treat. The car was only 50 yards (46 meters) away, and his mother watched him as he walked to the parking lot at the Hanna Flat Campground in Southern California's San Bernardino National Forest. She turned her back momentarily, and when she looked around again, Gonzales was gone. His mother reported that she heard no sound at all when her back was turned.
βA second is an eternity,β Gonzalez's mother said, fighting back tears. βWitnesses will tell you, I take good care of my children .... This was a tragedy.β
The cookies that Gonzales went to get were still in his family's locked van, so he never made it to the car. A team over 200 people in San Bernardino County scoured the woods for Gonzales. They found no signs of struggle or of the boy. The search went on for nine days, but rescuers never found him alive. Detectives also interviewed all registered sex offenders living in the area and took statements from most of the people who camped at the site to determine if he had been abducted.
Almost a year later, hikers stumbled upon the boy's remains in a ravine about a mile from his family's campsite. Dental records were used to positively identify the remains as belonging to Gonzales. Although authorities initially speculated a mountain lion as being responsible for the attack, an analysis of the remains found no evidence to indicate this was the case. No cause of death could be determined either.
βEverything weβre finding is pointing toward a natural death, and nothing that weβre finding is leading us to believe anything criminal occurred,β Sgt. Frank Bell of the San Bernardino County Sheriffβs homicide unit said. βThe location would be too difficult for a murder suspect to carry a boy to. It wouldβve taken hiking down a steep ravine and carrying the boy nearly a mile to get back there. A murder suspect is not going to do that.β
Beyond what was originally reported, there have been no further breaks in this case despite the passage of 15 years. The location where David went missing and was found is in the same general area where 12-year-old Jared Negrete went missing in 1991. He was never found.
The circumstances of David Gonzales death remain unclear and his case remains unsolved.
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... keep reading on reddit β‘As soon as the troop leader realized that Jared had disappeared, he accompanied his five other Scouts back to the base camp and then hiked about five miles in the dark to get help.couts on a hike to the summit of 11,500-foot Mt. San Gorgonio in San Bernardino National Forest, Southern California.
San Gorgonio Mountain, also known locally as Mount San Gorgonio, or Old Greyback, is the highest peak in Southern California and the Transverse Ranges at 11,503 feet (3,506 m). It is in the San Bernardino Mountains, 27 miles (43 km) east of the city of San Bernardino.Β It lies within the San Gorgonio Wilderness, part of the Sand to Snow National Monument managed by the San Bernardino National Forest.
The eighth-grader lived in El Monte, was 5 feet 2 inches tall and 150 pounds, was wearing green pants and a tan shirt and was carrying a two-quart canteen of water.
Another group of hikers spotted Jared straggling behind and notified the Scout troop leader at the mountain summit but the leader, an experienced hiker, said he would pick up Jared on the way down When the leader finally decided to descend the mountain, Jared was nowhere to be seen.
As soon as the troop leader realised that Jared had disappeared, he accompanied his five other Scouts back to the base camp and then hiked about five miles in the dark to get help.
San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies, along with search and rescue teams from as far away as Sierra Madre and San Dimas, began searching a 130-square mile area of the San Gorgonio Wilderness, a rocky, tree-lined terrain.
Within 3 days their search was focused on a six-square mile area, where a footprint believed to match one of Jared's high-top tennis shoes was found. Searchers also discovered beef jerky and candy wrappers believed to have been dropped by the Scout and most importantly his camera was located. On the film roll were twelve pictures.
Most of the photos were landscape scenes apparently taken before Jared went missing. But the final picture on the roll of film was a photograph of the Scout's eyes and nose, taken with the aid of the camera's flash, possibly at night after he disappeared. Family members said it appeared Jared pointed his camera at his face and snapped the picture. It seemed possible that the boy had lost the camera while sliding down a portion of the mountainside.
[The photo of Jared's face](https://preview.redd.it/649g74xx4f251.jpg?width=230&format=pjpg&auto=webp&
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