I know a lot of us are always trying to figure out how to best get info about unidentified people out to the public and hopefully to someone who will recognize them. I felt awful. One of yall commented on an old blog saying it may have been connected to this guy. I and others worked to confirm his identity, with the first press story about Rodriguez appearing in late December in Adventure Journal. "And we do more of a relationship search instead of an exact match. Othram was then able to make a positive identification based on that DNA. Read WIRED's follow-up story on Vance here: https://www.wired.com/story/unsettling-truth-mostly-harmless-hiker/. I want him to have a redemptive story, like Jesse Codys, because I like happy endings and because it better justifies all the time I spent researching bowling alleys in Newport News. According to NamUs, 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year. You know, you don't leave someone behind," said Natasha Teasley, who manages a canoe and kayak company in North Carolina. On July 23, 2018, hikers found a deceased man in a tent at a campsite called Nobles Camp in Big Cypress National Preserve located in Collier County, Florida. Testing there would cost $5,000, money not in the Collier County Sheriff's Office budget. Look up rabbit starvation. Then, in an epiphany, he had decided to hike the Appalachian Trail, despite never having pitched a tent before. Today, according to Collier County Sheriff's office, the unidentified hiker Mostly Harmless has now been officially confirmed to be Vance Rodriguez. Thank you so much for coming forward. He had perfect teeth, which suggested good dental care as a child. He also told her that he had some health issues and needed/wanted to do the trip while he still could. But then again, maybe these are all just stories Im telling myself about Vance Rodriguez because I still dont actually know what happened. But his real name remained a mystery. An Iraqi translator for the US military emigrated to Texas to start a new life. No phone, no ID, no credit cards; there was his hiking gear, a notebook, and $3,640 in cash. Its not an appy scar for sure. This guy is missing out of Vancouver..Terence Atherton Case number 2018052811..Could this be him, Why do you think that? WebMet Mostly Harmless hiking the Florida trail on March17 of 2018, near Paisley Florida. Just a thought. It is the essential source of information and ideas that make sense of a world in constant transformation. Google Maps Sept 2017 Hiker (Obsidian) took a photo of him reading the logbook in the Mountain Home Hostel in Front Royal, Virginia. And so, Teasley started The Kindness Project. However, his identity was a complete mystery. He now runs an organization to help people struggling with depression by taking them into nature. Even if he was in remission, perhaps he didnt want to ever go through that again and figured hed go out, living his best life! There was nothing in the campsite that could reveal who he was. He checked out the next days since the hostel was closed for Thanksgiving on the 23rd. They should have been red flags. She stayed with him, despite her foreboding. The mystery appeared to be solved. First thing investigators did was look into matching his fingerprints to any through various databases, such as criminal or military, which all came back no match. A police sketch of the unidentified hiker. And it can cause intestinal blockage as it spreads a thick, jelly like mucin around the gut that hardens. He was always very introverted, kept to himself. Collier County Sheriff's Office Fairbanks was sure it was Mostly Harmless. In late 2020, a friend came forward after seeing his picture and his family was contacted for DNA confirmation. The big questions were, how did he starve to death in his tent and who was he? Im sketching in details in the half light. I met him on a trail somewhere. A comment on the Mountain Crossings post said that Mostly Harmless had made it to Springer. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. He also told her that he had some health issues and needed/wanted to do the trip while he still could. The man called himself Mostly Harmless because it was said he enjoyed the work of Sci-Fi Writer Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. I have a similar scar from gastric bypass surgery. If youre asking me if he is the guy who shows up at the party in a clown suit blasting things out of a cannon, thats not him, says a former colleague named Corey Tisdale. They then issued a bulletin seeking information from the public, including a composite sketch and said that the man had been between 35 and 50 years old, was 58, had salt and pepper hair and beard, and his teeth were in excellent condition. Gradually, the dreary relationship got worse. Autopsy says bowels were unremarkable. When asked his name, the hiker introduced himself as "Mostly Harmless." -. Collier County Sheriffs Office Fairbanks was sure it was Mostly Harmless. My husband is a software engineer and says the notes are legit code but dated. "And there are a lot of them. By the time two hikers stumbled upon his tent, his body weighed just 83 pounds. There are a lot of missing people in our country. I could be quiet around him, she wrote, and it never felt awkward., Godso and Rodriguez were both computer nerds, with Rodriguez taking it to the extreme. I was not aware of how many missing people there are in our country.". His sister wrote back, My family has no comment., After graduating from high school, Rodriguez enrolled at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a trail angel- someone who helps thru-hikers by offering them showers and meals, or anything else they can for hikers. Help Identify This AT Hiker Found Deceased On Florida Trail! They do. February 24, 2018 Pine Log State Forest, FL. Was his appendix missing? The many people who met him didnt sense the dark, brooding, sometimes dangerous person who left Brooklyn. Another hiker met Mostly Harmless, who he knew as Denim, at a shelter at Springer Mountain. That wasn't the only time he locked me out., On a Saturday night in September 2016, K was injured when a terrorist set off a bomb on West 23rd Street in Manhattan. He met hundreds of people on the trail, and seemed to charm them all. Vance cut all ties and left, she says. Others dug into Da Vinci Codelevel clues. Some people call it a genealogical search.". The following timeline was established based on feedback from the public: Mostly Harmless told people along the way that he started hiking in New York in April 2017, Initially, Denim was his trail name because for his first two weeks of hiking he wore denim jeans. Which can be lonely when you share a 500-square-foot apartment, she says. One Louisiana woman sent me a photograph of her brother, who bore an uncanny resemblance to the missing man, and told me she suspected Mostly Harmless was the illegitimate son of her drug-dealing uncle. Marie recognized the face and she knew all about the scar. His body was kind of twisted. They had a bead on a user named Vaejor. ", Nicholas Thompson, of the Atlantic Magazine, asked, "Why did he make an impression on you? Investigators began to receive tips as soon as posting the bulletin. / CBS News. She still moved out that winter. Snapper and Sugar Rush were walking down 98 and entered into Aucilla Wildlife Management Area. Id wanted to help identify the missing hiker. Another hiker met Mostly Harmless, who he knew as Denim, at a shelter at Springer Mountain. ", Othram received some of Mostly Harmless' DNA from the sheriff's department and went to work. We know where hes been. When she asked him if he was using the Florida Trail Guide app, he said no because he didnt have a phone since he was wanting to disconnect. At first, he was romantic and sweet. And then he went into the woods and became Mostly Harmless. Replies analysing and speculating over the mystery and possible explanations are encouraged. She would ask him if he wanted to travel, and he would respond that he didnt need to go anywhere because he could easily look at pictures online. All attempts to identify this man failed. Yet somehow Mostly Harmless had escaped the digital dragnet. Found in his tent, the deceased hikers body was severely emaciated and weighed only 83 pounds. I wrote to his parents and sister in early January, two weeks after they heard the news. K, who asked for anonymity because of the public obsession about the hiker, was then finishing college in upstate New York. I want to think that he became someone else out in the woods, and I want him to have felt the things I feel when I hike on that trail. In this particular case, you know, there was so much pent-up interest in the case that we crowdfunded it, in the truest sense of the word, in about, I think, like, eight days, which was really quick. There is at least one photo of the family at a table that I believe Vance is in (back, right). Authorities did not consider that the campers cause of death was suspicious. A camper at Pine Log State Forest said she met Mostly Harmless at the Sand Pond Campground. Two hikers found a man dead inside that tent. Partly because he had erased his tracks, and partly because no one was looking for him. Mostly Harmless told people along the way that he started hiking in New York in April, and this is where his trail name Denim came from. A comment on the Mountain Crossings post has a comment made that Mostly Harmless had made it to Springer. He also told others that he spent a decade in the tech industry and was working on a hikers app. He wore his sadness like an extra layer of skin, Marie recalls. I was at the lowest point in my life. They are here on TCS. If you wish to see them in a larger size- https://imgur.com/a/eTphrRF?fbclid=IwAR0Ng8nt6WyOkEZw9iYCDfRmFbQ5YbLxfsnTWNdPtzMgjJM7aeyR0s1iP7Ehttps://imgur.com/a/b5Ny98l?fbclid=IwAR02hs0APr3VDyzhOt7YyjSg2jgZ8AT3VwASZNFvjwMs_PJHbmQtr4i5Ba4. He pulled out a piece of paper with a map of Florida on it and a line drawn where the trail should be. Members of the group lit candles for him. CCSO detectives first sent samples of Mostly Harmless DNA to the University of North Texas. Appalachian Trail (AT)Florida Trail (FT)Tru-HikerTrail nameTrail angel, NamusCollier County Sheriffs Office Facebook Video of Mostly HarmlessWho is Mostly Harmless?Help Identify This AT Hiker Found Deceased On Florida Trail!Officials are still trying to identify hiker known as Mostly HarmlessSworn Statement PodcastMysterious Hiker Found Dead On Florida Trail May Be From BrooklynNaple News search with keywords, Can anyone work this out? Most people are not comfortable being completely off the grid like that. He had signed in at hostels as Ben Bilemy, which, with some creative effort, could be read in reverse as Why me, lib? And sometimes they just let their imaginations fly. almost all gastric bypasses are done laparoscopically. They shared photos of him, created flyers, organized online groups to raise awareness of his story. There were no signs of drugs or excessive alcohol use. Notebook was pseudocode for a MUD, multi user dungeon, we both played on them a lot. But over the next two years the case slowly gathered attention. Again, my condolences to you and those who loved him. WebWhen the department posted a composite photo to Facebook, fellow hikers sent in dozens of photos and reported meeting him. A picture is taken of Mostly Harmless, known at this time as Denim, at Mountain Crossings which they post to their Facebook page. Theres a sweet video on the grandfathers obit page referenced above. Tyler Lewis can you send me facebook link to this page for MH ? The family then agreed to provide a DNA sample for comparison.. We just wished him happy trails and sent him on his way. The body of a hiker had been found in a tent in Florida in the summer of 2018, but scores of amateur detectives, and a few professional ones too, couldnt figure out who he was. WebIn the middle of December, photographs of Mostly Harmless found their way to a group of friends in Baton Rouge, one of whom called the Collier County Sheriffs Office. Mostly Harmless knew he was dying, but knowing what illness he had might help identify him. Hed never seen snow before. Hed destroyed his relationships. WebSo the Florida Department of Law Enforcement drew up an image of Mostly Harmless, and the Collier County investigators shared it with the public. No mention is made of a terminal illness in the autopsy. He left his apartment in anger. KEV said his pack was 53 1/2 pounds in Damascus, VA -- she took a photo of it on the scales because it was so heavy she almost toppled over trying it on. Drop me an email so we can dialogue. According to former girlfriends and coworkers, Vance Rodriguez was estranged from his family and suffered from severe bouts of depression. He was a brilliant computer programmer whose notebooks, found in the tent where he died, were filled with computer code. She helped form a Facebook group to try to identify him, named for an alias he sometimes used: Ben Bilemy. Kelly Fairbanks, 47, was the first person to match the composite sketch to a hiker she had met in Florida on January 24, 2018. . Youre about to get bombarded so prepare. I dont really understand any of it, but maybe someone else will be able to understand more: https://screeps.com/forum/topic/2937/a-strange-request-for-help, His picture looks like the man on The bridge seen walking towards abby and libby who were murdered, Ii was coming here to say the same thing!!! Marie, who works in IT, told me, He was a crazy good coder. He again mentioned that he was from, or at least started in, New York. It was interesting to note that he discolouration and abrasion of the shaft and glans of the penis in addition to wasting (cachexia). He may have been born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but no one mentioned a strong accent. WebI first learned of the man called Mostly Harmless this past August. Please enter valid email address to continue. Trail Correspondents 2023: Apply to Join the Team! Someone else met Mostly Harmless on the FT, near Paisley, Florida. Godso said. Please look into a game called Dont Starve, developed by a company called Klei Entertainment. However, there was nothing in his possession that would reveal who he was. Kelly said she was worried about Mostly Harmless because he seemed new to hiking, not having a phone and carrying an unnecessarily enormous tent were rookie mistakes. What's the difference? The effort eventually reached a former colleague, who recognized a local called Vance Rodriguez and reached out to the Collier County Sheriffs Office. We just dont know where he was from or who he really was. Also, his trekking poles. Want the best tools to get healthy? His bowels were unremarkable, as were his kidneys. He was a long time friend, roommate ans travel companion who we had lost contact with. From a state park in New York, he hiked south and, about a thousand miles and 10 months later, crossed into Florida. This is by far the dumbest comment I have read on his case thus far. And while he had no cell phone or identification, his possessions included backpacking gear, food, and nearly $4,000 in cash. He told trail angels and other hikers that he was coming from Brooklyn and that he spent a decade in the tech industry and was working on a hikers app. Was he struck down by a trail illness e.g. Maybe Rodriguezs story is similar to Codys. Unidentified and Mostly Harmless has been identified as Vance Rodriguez. ", In the podcast, Gill notes that Mostly Harmless obeyed the cardinal rule of hikers across the nation. Detectives even have clear photos of him along the way. They became off-and-on roommates for the next five years. What do you do when the answer to the mystery isnt what you thought or hoped? His death was not suspicious, and he likely died a few days before. Ill talk to the detective again tomorrow and ask. Both these pictures were taken by Kristin Ernst Vanpelt and posted in the comments section of the Collier County Sheriffs Office post. Had he become a different person? Maybe he was good at code-switching and hiding the person he was behind doors with me or others, she said. What kind of surgery would leave that long linear abdominal scar? Hed go for a year without smiling or being nice to people, Godso recalls. "A tingle ran down my spine.". What happened next involved a huge number of man hours and DNA testing to try and discover the identity of this mystery man, who was quickly established to be hiking under the names Mostly Harmless and Denim along the Florida Trail (FT). UPDATES- These have been added to the bottom of the blog. And why, when things started to go wrong, didnt he walk out?, Rodriguezs friends have a theory about the second question. WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. I know that when he had to deal with anything, he would just lay down and sleep, K told me. Yeah, Im just not sure how much Im allowed to say. There is a simple, if reductive, answer that might apply to anyone whose mind is going sideways. Six months after that, in southern Florida, hikers made a terrible discovery at the Big Cypress National Preserve, in Florida's Alligator Alley: A dead body had been found curled up in a yellow tent at a camp site. They had been lighting candles in an effort to bring someone back to his familyonly to learn that he had completely cut himself off from them. The Unsettling Truth About the Mostly Harmless Hiker. Thought of a line When this man asked someone else Whos that guy?, the reply was Hes mostly harmless or along those lines, so Mostly Harmless kept the trail name. Maybe he did become someone different. To me, it seems he starved himself to death. The partnership comes after detectives determined that they had exhausted DNA searches through national missing persons databases in March of this year and following national developments in DNA privacy. Someone would have to tell all the people who missed him. The mystery of Mostly Harmless captivated and inspired thousands of people. Denim said that his dad was abusive and he didnt speak to his parents but talked about a sister, and he mentioned that he had an ex-girlfriend. I needed a mind-altering jolt. Someone else met Mostly Harmless on the FT, near Paisley, Florida. Honestly that looks like a tummy tuck scar, especially around the belly button, maybe he used to be over weight and had excess skin removed. WebThe hiker started his journey on the Appalachian Trail in April 2017, from Harriman State Park near New York City. He had no ID, but had almost $4,000 in cash. We know what he looks like. And did the coroner ever update the case of death? And about how long ago? He was trying to escape a medical diagnosis. How did that happen? Fairbanks took a few pictures of him. Rodriguez, according to his roommate, had cut off all contact with his family. This has been long expected. But a new high-tech tool held out hope. He told Gormley he was headed toward Key West with a 50-pound pack on his back in Florida's mounting heat, and the Trail Angel became concerned. Id love to know what kind of person he was, what was his life like. No phone, no ID, no credit cards; there was his hiking gear, a notebook, and $3,640 in cash. But how much ocean are we willing to sacrifice? Megan do you know why he would have connections there? He had a long scar on his abdomen and readers diagnosed potential illnesses. Gill is a former Naples Daily News reporter and current media relations specialist for the Collier County Sheriff's office. I had pretty bad PTSD to which he hated caring for me, even kept a dated log of every time I needed help, to the point where he left me outside in the darkknowing that at that time I couldn't be outside alone or be in the dark without panicking, she recalls, before adding, and this is only the light stuff.. There was nothing there that gave us a hint at the time. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. But people with computer skills usually dont have a hard time finding a job. He appeared to have been kind. When Kelly Fairbanks saw the picture on Facebook, she told Thompson she "freaked out a little bit.". But eventually he would snap out of it. He indeed grew up in Louisiana, and he moved to New York in his 30s. Horton said that His body was kind of twisted. Our phones dont ring and our screens dont beckon us. After years of investigation by authorities and amateur online sleuths, the identity of the deceased Appalachian Trail hiker known by the trail name Mostly Harmless has been uncovered. But then I thought back to my phone call to the friend of Daryl McKenzie. His family wasnt in touch. The photos in my story didnt look at all like her friend, who was indeed a hiker but who was alive and well in Los Angeles. He wore black jeans, a black shirt, and a black trench coat. "He said, 'I'm not using a cell phone,'" Fairbanks recalled. He was thin, but nowhere near 83 pounds. His death was not suspicious, and he likely died a few days before. On July 23, 2018, two day hikers in Big Cypress National Preserve discovered the body of a hiker whose identity would confound investigators for years to come. They said he was doing the trails without the GPS or even a detailed map so they exchanged trail information- making sure to go into greater detail than usual to help him out the best they could. In the middle of December, photographs of Mostly Harmless found their way to a group of friends in Baton Rouge, one of whom called the Collier County Sheriffs Office. When she asked him if he was using the Florida Trail (FT) Guide app, he said no because he didnt have a phone since he was wanting to disconnect. Maybe thats the prettiest bow you can put on the box that contains this strange story. Does anyone know if the notes about food towards the top of the notes list have to do with the game hes describing? Get a grip. Did someone help themselves to some cash? They also talked about Sci-Fi, specifically Doctor Who. Identification In July 2020, it was announced that the Surfing online, she became fascinated by the case of Mostly Harmless. Known on different sections of the trails as Denim and Mostly Harmless, Rodriguez stayed in shelters and hostels, hiked alongside other backpackers, and even had his photo taken dozens of times. The thru hiker, who went by trail names "Denim" and "Mostly Harmless, interacted with others along the Appalachian and Florida trails. I know the author has no ill will intent thats not my concern. Soon, these engines of wow will transform how we design just about everything. 7th - 8th Oct 2017 A hiker (KEV) met him in Virginia and knew him as Denim. Daryl had supposedly said, I came into this world without a name and Im going to go out of this world without one.. They also included what he was wearing, a beige shirt with green shorts and black Salomon hiking boots, and the type of tent he was found in, a yellow Brooke-Range 2-person tent. Two women who were hiking the FT encountered Mostly Harmless. And he said, 'You know, sometimes people just wanna disconnect.'". I don't think I was committed to Vance as a human. In another attempt to identify the deceased hiker, investigators issued a bulletin seeking information from the public. 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