Beyond the Last Footprint - Vol. 3 : Unresolved Disappearances and Wilderness Mysteries
Overview
A last known place can be marked on a map. What happened beyond it is another question entirely.
Beyond the Last Footprint - Vol. 3 returns to the wilderness with thirteen chapters examining the disappearances of fifteen people whose final known movements led into forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, canyons, and remote backcountry-and whose stories remain unresolved.
Drawing on documented records, official material, witness accounts, search information, archival sources, and available evidence, Sebastian Karcz reconstructs each case from the last reliable point forward. Carefully designed case maps place the reader directly into the terrain, showing the locations, routes, reference areas, and landscapes that shaped both the disappearances and the searches that followed.
The cases examined include Maureen Leianuhea "Anu" Kelly in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest; Derrick James Engebretson near Pelican Butte in Oregon; Michael Paul LeMaitre on Alaska's Mount Marathon; Daylenn "Moke" Pua on Oʻahu; Barbara Assunta Bolick in Montana's Bitterroot Mountains; David O'Sullivan during his Pacific Crest Trail journey; Robert Perry Bissell in Oregon's Roaring River Wilderness; Michael Gazetas on Vancouver Island, British Columbia; Nancy Ng at Guatemala's Lake Atitlán; Bruno Manser in the forests of Borneo; Sandra Lyn Johnsen Hughes in California's Sierra National Forest; Glen Hyde and Bessie Hyde in the Grand Canyon; and brothers Michael Timothy Palmer and Charles Edwin "Chucky" Palmer V in Alaska.
Some cases begin with footprints that disappear. Others with an abandoned vehicle, a recovered boat, a bicycle, a snowmachine, or a final photograph. What connects them is not a single theory, but the same unsettling boundary: the point where the documented record ends and uncertainty begins.
Written for readers fascinated by missing-person cases, wilderness mysteries, search-and-rescue investigations, unexplained disappearances, and unresolved true stories, this volume separates documented fact from theory, rumor, and speculation while examining what searchers found-and what they never did.
This is the third volume in the ongoing Beyond the Last Footprint series, but each book is designed to stand on its own. The volumes do not need to be read in order. Every installment explores a different collection of real disappearance cases connected by remote terrain, incomplete evidence, and the unanswered question of what happened beyond the last known point.
The trail ends. The map remains. And somewhere beyond the last footprint, the story is still unfinished.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798160925851
- ISBN-10: 9798160925851
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.44 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.62 pounds
- Page Count: 206
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