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Sorry for the relatively short write up, there isn’t a whole lot of information available, but this one hasn’t been posted about before and I find it intriguing.
Jon Truscott Haynes was an 18 year old highschool graduate ready to embark on the next adventure of his life. Haynes graduated from a San Francisco area highschool in 1981 and was accepted to the University of Colorado Boulder for the fall semester.
As a graduation present, his father gifted him a new, 1981 beige 2-door Subaru hatchback. Driving his new car, Haynes left California in July to road trip to Boulder, Colorado before school started. On his drive out to Colorado, he picked up a hitch hiker along the way. Haynes told the hitch hiker he was planning to buy some weed in Boulder. He arrived in Boulder on July 22, 1981 and camped his first night there alone at an area KOA Kampground.
The following day, July 23, he called his father from a 7-11 and asked for some money to subsist off of before the dorms opened next month for school. He told his father he would keep in touch and call the next day, which he did not do.
On July 24, Haynes uses a pay phone in Nederland, Colorado, a mountainous town about 17 miles west of Boulder, to call a friend. This is the last time Haynes is heard from, and I am unable to find any account of what was discussed on the phone call. This was the last person known to have talked with Haynes before he vanished.
On July 26, a Nederland deputy marshal spotted Haynes’ Subaru parked along a county road with the windows rolled down, despite the fact that it was raining. Haynes had not been reported missing at this time, so the police officer did nothing in response to seeing the vehicle.
The deputy returned to this spot a few days later and the car was gone. The car has also not been located since.
On August 10, Haynes was officially reported missing, with no clues emerging besides the deputy’s report about the car.
Haynes’ family had him legally declared dead in 1983. His father is convinced he was murdered in Nederland.
There are multiple theories that are speculated about, and here I will offer my speculation and analysis.
The most likely theory is there was some sort of drug deal that went south, and Haynes ended up dead. Boulder and Nederland in particular were very well known to be marijuana friendly despite the illegality of it at the time. However, being murdered over a drug deal involving marijuana seems a bit of a stretch. How deep and how much troub
... keep reading on reddit ➡Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Weight: 179 lbs / 81 kg
Date of Birth: Apr 12, 2002
Wheeler: Truscott didn’t get the limelight at the NTDP due to all of the shine afforded to Jake Sanderson, and he won’t get the limelight in Michigan, where he’ll be riding shotgun on the hype train to Owen Power and Cam York on defence. Hell, he may not even be picked ahead of NTDP defencemen Tyler Kleven, Brock Faber and Eamon Powell, who all feature later than him on my board. But he’s a legitimate prospect in his own right. The challenge in evaluating Truscott side-by-side with his peers at the program is that they each did one or two things at a higher level than he did. The problem with approaching his evaluation that way, though, is that you’re defaulting to a single-skill lens. We run into that trap as evaluators all of the time and it routinely lends itself to players who have one high-end tool going higher than they should, and well-rounded players who lack a dynamic quality falling further than they should. Evaluation of Truscott’s game this season has been prone to those mistakes, in my opinion. He’s a smart, heady player with the puck who does a good job keeping his shots low and on target and an even better job quickly moving the puck up ice from his own zone. Defensively, though his footwork and gap control could use some work, I like his ability to disrupt defensive zone sequences and make plays back the other way. The time that college will afford him to refine his game will be crucial to his development but I liked what I saw more often than not.
EliteProspects: Truscott uses great edge work and mobility to find great passing options and exits from his own end of the ice. One can take solace in the fact that Truscott is a technically skilled passer who can thread the needle in all three zones -- even if he doesn't leverage that often enough to be an impact player, proof of concept exists.
Ranked #105 by ELITEPROSPECTS.COM
Ranked #215 by FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS
Ranked #67 by TSN/CRAIG BUTTON
Ranked #68 by MCKEEN'S HOCKEY
Ranked #68 by NHL CENTRAL SCOUTING (NA Skaters)
Well, you can thank Mr. Carbomb and your number one listener for roping in yet another Truscott sibling into this gold mine of comedy.
I must say, it's impressive that the two of you have the ability to make me laugh out loud randomly while I listen at work.
