S7 Prep: Stephen Michael Mason

Summary

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True Crime Bullsh** — S7 Prep: Stephen Michael Mason

Host: Josh Hallmark
Release Date: August 21, 2025

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Overview

In this episode, Josh Hallmark delves into the mysterious 2006 disappearance of Stephen Michael Mason (“Mike”), a survivalist and veteran from Sequim, Washington, whose background and final days strikingly parallel those of serial killer Israel Keyes. Hallmark meticulously explores the muddled timeline, conflicting witness statements, the significance of caches in both men's lives, and Keyes’ movements during the week of Mason’s disappearance, probing the likelihood of a connection between Mason’s fate and Keyes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Caches — Keyes’ and Mason’s Shared Practices

• Josh begins by playing selections from Keyes' recorded interviews, revealing Keyes' typical method of hiding caches in numerous locations, including Washington State.
  • Keyes: “The idea with caches is to have something everywhere, wherever.” (02:14)
• Both Keyes and Mason were survivalists, outdoorsmen, and widely known for caching supplies — though Mike for less “nefarious” purposes. Their common backgrounds (Eastern Washington roots, time in Sequim/Port Angeles, tumultuous relationships, and alcoholism) set the stage for the case’s complexity.

2. Details of the Disappearance & Timeline Issues

Summary of Events (28:14 - 42:30)

• Mike and his wife, Berwin, go camping to celebrate her birthday on June 20, 2006. They argue; Berwin leaves after 12:45pm (by her account) and possibly breaks Mike’s truck window trying to get keys.
• Over subsequent days, six different witnesses allegedly see Mike at varying times, but no two witnesses see him together or at the same time — making the timeline murky.
• Mike’s caches and belongings are later found scattered throughout the woods, but his two guns and some personal effects remain missing.
• There’s a final unconfirmed sighting on June 30, while a major search is underway, casting doubt on the accuracy of some witness reports.

Notable Quotes

• Josh Hallmark: “The overwhelming feeling I had...was one of surprise. I was surprised this case didn't get much media attention. It's incredibly complex and, for lack of a better word, fascinating.” (05:29)
• Hallmark on confusion: “Almost everyone involved had been drinking, and of the six major witnesses, no one ever saw Mike at the same time.” (05:29)

3. Witness Statements Breakdown

Berwin Mason (Mike’s wife)

• Gave inconsistent timelines due to extreme intoxication during interviews.
• Changed her story about when she last saw Mike and when she broke into the truck.
  • “She was so drunk during this interview that she couldn't stand up straight.” (21:02)
• Expressed concern Mike wasn’t suicidal and recalled him making bracelets at camp — which were never found.

Tom (Friend)

• Claims Mike dropped off Berwin’s purse and Bronco at his house around 5:30am on either June 21 or 22.
• Last saw Mike heading back to the woods with a shotgun.

The Lutes (Camping Couple)

• Met Mike (as “Mike Kennedy”) on June 21; report their camp was ransacked and a chair stolen.
• Mike claims his truck was broken into.
• Provided time-stamped photos of Mike and his secondary camp.

Jerry (Acquaintance)

• Saw Mike at the campground on June 23. Mike mentioned someone picking him up at 9am, but thereafter, he was never seen again.

Crystal (Outpost worker)

• Claims to have seen Mike on June 30 at the camp bridge, but didn’t report it until two weeks later and her sighting conflicts with a massive ongoing search.

Timeline Summary

• June 20: Mike and Berwin arrive, argue, she leaves the campground.
• June 21-23: Multiple irregular sightings by various people, timeline differences around the whereabouts of Mike’s Bronco and camp equipment.
• June 28–30: Reported missing, large search efforts, unconfirmed final sighting.
• Keyes’ whereabouts during these days are suspicious, with gaps in his official timeline.

4. The Jacket and Its Significance (44:14)

• Police recovered a wet jacket with odd contents (someone else’s fishing license, contact info for “Randy,” shotgun and .22 ammo, miscellaneous items, a list of names including famous athletes, and Mike’s father’s belt buckle).
• No one recognized the jacket as Mike’s, and the items inside only deepened the mystery.

5. Potential Motive and Connections to Israel Keyes

• Overlap in lifestyle and habits: Keyes and Mason shared backgrounds, were both frequent at the same VFW, used caches, and were known among the same circles.
• Location MO: Keyes abducted people from areas just like the one where Mason vanished — remote campgrounds, federal land, and near secret survivalist locations.
  • “Two Forks Campground has been described by both police and locals as a secret campground used by vets and survivalists, of which Keyes was both. It's located approximately one mile upstream from where Keyes went shooting.” (51:30)
• Timeline gaps: Keyes was unaccounted for the days Mike likely disappeared. His explanations (e.g., picking up an ATV at a place that doesn’t exist) were lies.
  • “There's a gap in his timeline starting on June 25 and ending on July 10...” (51:30)
• Unrecovered evidence: Mike’s guns were never found; Keyes admitted in interviews to stealing and caching guns from victims.
  • Keyes: “Burglaries. I usually just jewelry and guns. Small guns.” (56:44)
• Boat Oddities: Keyes’ boat, used in murders, broke down the day after Mike was last seen; it was never repaired or used again, and he told the FBI there might be blood or bone in the motor.
• The Port Angeles Cache: Keyes claimed this cache was “relevant to a Washington state crime” but feigned amnesia about its location, unlike other caches.
• Victim Profile Match: Mike was of smaller stature (Keyes’ preference), was alone after Berwin left, and his guns were missing—aligning with Keyes’ known MOs.

6. Unanswered Questions and Hallmark’s Theories

• Why did Mike use aliases (introduced as “Mike Kennedy” to the Lutes)?
• No one knows the significance of the names scrawled on the paper found in the jacket.
• Mike never bought a pack mule as discussed with Randy, indicating further unresolved business.
• Mike’s bracelets, allegedly made for family during his last days, were never recovered.
• Hallmark finds significant the “coincidences” between Keyes’ suspicious behavior/timeline and Mason’s disappearance but is careful to point out the lack of “actual evidence” directly tying Keyes.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Josh Hallmark:

  • “In a lot of ways, Keyes and Mike Mason were very similar. And the timeline of Mason's disappearance is as murky as the timeline of Keyes himself, particularly that particular week.” (05:29)
  • “There are certainly a lot of coincidences at play here beyond what we know about Keyes MO at this stage of his murders.” (51:30)
  • “This cache, which was admittedly relevant to crimes he didn't want to discuss. This cache, which was buried in an area he lived in for six years. And that to me means a couple of things: The cache was in an area relative to one of his crimes and/or the cache contained evidence from one of his crimes.” (57:54)

• Keyes, on guns:

  • “Burglaries. I usually just jewelry and guns. Small guns.” (56:44)
  • “No, I didn't get rid of them because I was worried about them getting tracked…” (57:05)

• Vinay (Mutual Friend):

  • “If [Berwin] was going to kill Mike, she would have done it 25 years ago.” (47:50)

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Critical Timestamps

| Segment | Topic | |---|---| |02:14–05:11| Caches and hunting as sources for ideas (Keyes’ methods and parallels to Mason)| |05:29–10:00| Introduction to Mike Mason, why the case is overlooked, the shared VFW connection| |28:14–42:30| Detailed law enforcement and witness timeline, breakdowns of inconsistencies| |44:14–47:50| Jacket on riverbank, interviews with “Randy” and “Troy,” and Vinay’s commentaries| |50:30–54:45| Keyes’ movements, the boat on Lake Ozette, the suspicious timeline gaps| |54:45–58:00| The VFW, similarities in habits, abduction settings, guns, and caches| |61:00–62:49| Summary reflections, missing evidence, unresolved mysteries|

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Conclusion

This episode builds a striking circumstantial case around the possibility that Israel Keyes may have been involved in Mike Mason's disappearance, highlighting extensive lifestyle and timeline overlaps, failures of memory and reporting by various actors, and a tapestry of clues that may never fully resolve. Hallmark stays true to his investigative style, meticulously following up on every thread, yet maintaining a disciplined skepticism about where the evidence actually leads.

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For listeners unfamiliar with the case, this episode offers:

• A hauntingly detailed account of Mason’s last days
• An expert breakdown of procedural missteps and conflicting reports
• Examination of how the habits and timelines of both Mason and Keyes create a chilling overlap
• A nuanced look at how easy it is for a disappearance to slip between the cracks—even one saturated with secrets, survivalism, and violence

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This is a studio both and production.

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You got me more curious about the caches and stuff now too. How many caches are there in Washington? Washington, United States, Canada.

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The idea with caches is to have something everywhere, wherever.

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You might never know when you're gonna feel the need.

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I'm not tied to stay at home kind of guy.

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So.

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There'S a lot of them? Well, a dozen.

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No.

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Jesus, nothing. That won't be that hard.

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Yeah, we got that.

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How many in Washington? One relative.

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How about at least one in Washington?

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@ least.

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One? Is there one that's not relative that we could look.

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For? No, they're all.

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Relative. Well, relevant to. I know you said there's one in Washington relevant to stuff we may be talking about in the.

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Future. Well, they're all.

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Relevant. That's what you have them for, right? Right. This is true crime.

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Bullshit. I'm your host, Josh Hallmark, and this is a serialized story of Israel.

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Keyes. I think we already talked about this. But even though you were never Questioned by law enforcement about why you were ever at any of these places or.

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Anything. Well, like I said.

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Casually. By law.

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Enforcement.

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Yeah. Like they would see you at a trailhead and just small talk with.

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You. Right?

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Yeah. Are you here to fish? Are you here to hike? Those kind of.

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Things.

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Right. Let me see your fishing.

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License.

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Right. And I usually had everything. Yeah, I always had all that stuff. Honestly, a lot of times that's what I was.

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Doing. Yeah.

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First, far back as I can remember it, you know, that's where I get a lot of the ideas. Either fishing or out hunting, thinking of.

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Them.

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Yeah. Stalk me through the woods and see somebody in the woods. They don't see you. You sit there and watch them for a while. I can remember doing that from time I was like 13 or 14 years.

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Old. Thinking you.

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Could.

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Just. Or just the fact that you're able to watch them and they don't know you're watching.

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Them. Right. And.

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Then. Yeah, I don't.

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Know. I.

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Just. That's always. That was always the most comfortable.

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Scenario for me.

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Because it's a win win situation. I'm out hunting or fishing and if the opportunity comes up, then take it. If it doesn't, it's not like it's. You're out.

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Anything. When I first started looking into the case of Stephen Michael Mason, who went by Mike, there wasn't a lot of information about him or his disappearance available online or in the media. Then, about two weeks after I connected him and Keys to the same VFW in Squim, I finally received the case files from Clallam County. And the overwhelming feeling I had while reviewing those files was one of surprise. I was surprised. This case didn't get much media attention. It's incredibly complex and for lack of a much better word, fascinating. And when looked at through the lens of Israel Keyes, even more so. In a lot of ways, Keyes and Mike Mason were very similar. And the timeline of Mason's disappearance is as murky as the timeline of Keyes himself, particularly that particular week. Mike Mason disappeared at the confluence of two rivers while camping at what local police described as a secret campground used almost exclusively by vets and survivalists. Approximately one mile from where Keyes was known to have gone shooting. An off map unofficial shooting range known mostly to local vets and survivalists. Like Keyes, Mike was a veteran and survivalist and he used caches a lot, although for far less nefarious purposes than Keys. Mike was well acquainted with the woods surrounding Sequim and Port Angeles. And by all Accounts spent a significant amount of time in them. Camping, hiking, hunting, fishing, gold panning and caching. The 52 year old was originally from eastern Washington, like Keyes, but he and his wife Berwyn relocated to school swim at some point in either the late 90s or early aughts. Also like Keys, by all accounts, Mike and Berwin had a tumultuous relationship that was fueled by alcohol. Everyone interviewed referred to both of them as alcoholics. And those interviews paint a clear picture of a lifestyle which centered mostly around the vfw, where Mike worked as a handyman and where both he and Berwin spent a significant amount of time drinking. And that leads us to one of the biggest issues with the timeline and details surrounding this case. Almost everyone involved had been drinking, and of the six major witnesses, no one ever saw Mike at the same time. Each witness account occurs during a different period during the four days Mike was last seen. The second issue is that it's unclear when exactly Mike disappeared. All that's known is Mike and Berwin went camping on June 20. They got into an argument and Berwin left. Several witnesses saw Mike at the campgrounds over the next few days, and then people just stopped seeing him and he never came home. The third issue is Mike's caches, for which he was prolific. So Mike's possessions were found hidden throughout the surrounding woods with no clarity on what was placed with intention or when it was placed. There's also the issue of a significant amount of unsubstantiated hearsay, mostly amongst people who knew Mike in eastern Washington and Mike's drinking buddies at the vfw. And then there's the issue that one of the witnesses is now dead. So I'll be focusing on the five witness statements. Two of those witnesses were a couple, and the timeline that local law enforcement built using those statements. A timeline which, in my opinion, is flawed. And we'll break that down, too. Local law enforcement interviewed seven eyewitnesses who saw or believe they saw Mike at the campground he disappeared from during the week of his disappearance. They used those six witness statements, along with a seventh statement from a woman who worked at the VFW to create a timeline. Unfortunately, the most critical witness, Mike's wife, Berwin, was drunk when she last saw Mike, when she reported him missing, and when she was first interviewed by police. This is the timeline law enforcement built. On June 20th of 2006, Mike and Berwin drove 15 miles from their home in Sequim to the National Forest, Dungeness Two Forks Campground on Fire Service Road 2880 for a planned overnight camping trip to celebrate Berwin's birthday. Reportedly, Mike had camped in the same area the week prior. The pair arrived at the campground at around noon. Over the course of the next hour, they drank beer and champagne while setting up their campsite. And over that period, the two began to argue. According to Berwin, she was moving too slowly, which was frustrating Mike, and the frustration on both sides eventually boiled over. The argument got so bad that at some point between 12:45 and 4:45, depending on when you ask Berwin, Mike stormed off into the woods and Berwin made her way to the highway and hitchhiked back to town, eventually making her way to the VFW on June 21. A mutual friend of the couple, Tom, who lived several miles from the campgrounds and knew the masons through the VFW, reported that around 5am Mike dropped off Berwin's purse and his truck for Berwin to pick up. Tom then drove Mike, who planned to camp for several more days, back to the campground. While at the campground, Mike took Tom to a more isolated campsite where he retrieved two buried guns and several caches of food. Tom left the campground shortly thereafter, reporting that he last saw Mike walking back into the woods from the campsite with one of his cached guns, a double barrel. 20 caliber shotgun propped over his shoulder. Later that same day, at around 3 or 4pm, Mike met and spoke with a couple, the Lutes, who had set up camp nearby. Oddly, he introduced himself as Mike Kennedy. Kennedy is Berwin's maiden name. The Lutes reported that they had returned from a hike at around 3pm and discovered that someone had rifled through their camp, stealing a camp chair and spilling beer all over their tent and sleeping bags. About 30 minutes after discovering the theft, Mike introduced himself and reported that he'd just discovered that someone broke a vent window on his truck in what appeared to be an attempted burglary. He said he'd seen an orange pickup truck hastily leaving the area and assumed that that was the perpetrator of both crimes. And two things need to be pointed out. First, according to Tom, Mike had already dropped his truck off at his house earlier that morning. And second, in a later interview, unprompted, Tom says that the truck drop off occurred on the 22nd, not the 21st. On June 23, at around 8am an acquaintance of Mike's, Jerry, visited him at the campground. Jerry and Mike also knew each other through the vfw. According to Jerry, he and Mike shared a beer and Mike talked mostly about going gold panning at the river and how cold the previous night had been. Jerry offered to give Mike a ride back into town, but Mike declined and said that some guy was going to pick him up from the campsite at around 9am and that was the last confirmed sighting of Mike. On June 28, eight days after Mike and Berwin first set up camp, Berwin and Mike's father separately reported him missing at 8:20am and 9:35pm respectively. They each reported that he failed to return home from a camping trip and that he had fishing gear, firearms, camping gear and food stored in the area of the campsite. That same day, Mike's parents and son made the 320 mile trek from Pasco, Washington to Sequim to help look for Mike. On June 29, Clallam County Search and Rescue conducted a two day search of the area which included assistance from the Coast Guard and Mike's friends and family. That search recovered most of Mike's personal belongings along with multiple caches of food and clothing, but found no trace of Mike or his two guns. The most ominous recovery was a pile of wet clothing and personal articles belonging to Mike found along the banks of the Dungeness River. Oddly enough, there was a final unconfirmed sighting of Mike at the campgrounds on June 30th. In the midst of the two day search on June 30th, a local woman named Crystal reported seeing Mike at a bridge near the entrance of the campgrounds. She recognized him as both a repeat customer at the outpost where she worked and from his picture in several local newspaper articles detailing the search and rescue efforts. What's so strange about this sighting is that Crystal was aware Mike was missing but didn't report the sighting until July 14, especially considering law enforcement returned to the campground with Mike's friend Tom on July 1, while Crystal was still camping on site. Tom accompanied deputies to the campground that morning to show them where Mike had set up camp following Berwin's departure. The new campsite was located along an overgrown footpath approximately 1/10 of a mile west of his original campsite. About 30 yards further down the footpath, a deputy located a blue denim jacket covered with polymer pine needles in the adjacent woods. Beneath it, they uncovered what appeared to be one of Mike's food caches. A cache that clearly hadn't been touched for weeks. At the campsite they found a lean to fabricated with sapling branches, a small fire pit and a food can hidden in a tree. There were no other signs of any recent camping in the area. As I mentioned previously, during the search of the area surrounding the campground, some of Mike's wet clothing and belongings were found along the riverbank. Specifically, a dark green plaid wool jacket was found laying on a rock along the river's edge downstream from the campground. Inside the jacket's pockets, investigators found a belt buckle with the name Don Mason on it. Don is Mike's father a bag of cigarette tobacco, a cigarette hand rolling machine, miscellaneous fishing gear, a pair of sunglasses, a small white sock, a razor, two live 20 gauge shotgun shells, 17 live.22 caliber rounds, a 2005 fishing license issued to a man named Troy, and a piece of paper with the name and phone number of a man named Randy, along with handwritten directions to an undetermined location. And it was that jacket and these items that would simultaneously lead investigators to key witnesses and further shroud Mike's disappearance in mystery True Crime Bullshit is.

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Tcbs. The first official police interview took place on June 29 at 8:30pm when deputies arrived at a mutual friend of the Masons, Vinay Money's house where Berwin had been staying following Mike's disappearance. According to the interviewing deputy, Berwin appeared to be extremely intoxicated and had a hard time walking or even balancing while standing up. Her eyes were bloodshot and watery, her breath smelled of alcohol and her speech was slurred. Berwin was interviewed in the driveway of Vinay's home off Kitchen Dick Road. Mike's truck was parked in the driveway and deputies noted that it was full of camping gear. The windshield was cracked and a side vent window had been broken. Berwin told investigators that she and Mike had been married off and on for 28 years. She said they married in 1982, divorced in 83, remarried in 97 and had been separated for the past two weeks. She said that she last saw Mike on June 20 at around 12:45 when he walked away from her while setting up their campsite. She said it was a campground they had been to numerous times before. She said that essentially from the time they arrived, they were arguing, but she couldn't remember what exactly they were arguing about other than Mike being frustrated with how slowly she was moving and setting up camp. She said that Mike had a temper from hell but stressed that he wasn't suicidal. She said Mike walked away from her very upset during the argument and that he was carrying a lawn chair and a shotgun at the time. She told deputies that Mike had gone gold panning at that particular campsite three different times in the past two months. She said that the last time she saw Mike, he was wearing a heavy camouflaged jacket, blue jeans, hiking boots and a red and black flannel shirt. Berwin expressed concern that Mike didn't know the river well despite having gone gold panning and fishing there previously. She also said that the longest her husband had ever stayed at the river was five days. She told investigators that Mike had locked his keys in his truck, so she walked up the road from the campground to get a ride. Following the argument, she said a man drove her from nearby the campground to the highway where her brother picked her up and drove her to the VFW in Sequim. She stayed at the VFW until around 6:30 when she got a ride home from her friend Vinay. In that same interview, Berwin contradicted herself, saying that on the 20th at around 4:30pm she returned to the campsite and that's when she broke the window of Mike's truck in an attempt to get his keys out. When asked about her contradicting stories, Berwin just stared looking confused at the deputy. To reiterate, she was so drunk during this interview that she couldn't stand up straight. She told deputies that their friend Tom was the last person to see Mike. In a follow up call on July 1, Berwin told officers that she broke the vent window on Mike's truck before leaving the campground. She said that after breaking the window she still couldn't get into the truck, so she started walking home and made it several miles before getting a ride from the passerby. She said she went to Tom's house the following day, which would have been Wednesday, June 21, to pick up the truck and her purse. After picking up the truck, she drove back to the campsite but didn't see Mike. While at the campsite, she saw a couple of camp chairs that she couldn't identify but thought might have been chairs that she had borrowed from her mother, so she took those with her when she left. She then returned to the campground a final time on June 28 to look for Mike, but Couldn't find him. In a second call the following day, Berwin told officers that a frequent patron at the VFW named Jerry told her that he ran into Mike at the campground on Friday, June 23 and had a beer with him, which would make Jerry the last person to have seen Mike and not Tom during this call. Berwin also remembered that Mike had been making bracelets for several family members while at the campsite. No such bracelets were ever recovered from the campgrounds, the woods, the caches or Mike's truck. Later, when shown photos of the green jacket found along the river, Berwin didn't recognize the jacket but did recognize the belt buckle. She told investigators that the package of tobacco and the cigarette rolling device did not belong to Mike. Mike only smoked Camel Lights and Marlboro cigarettes. When shown a piece of paper with Randy's phone number on it, she said she recognized it, then grabbed the paper from the deputy's hand and tried to put it in her pocket. The deputy retrieved the paper from her and concluded the interview. It's believed that in both follow up calls and during this meeting, Berwin was also drunk. On June 30, between Berwin's initial statement on Kitchen Dick Road and her follow up calls with investigators, an officer interviewed Tom. Tom initially told the officer that Mike arrived at his house on Wednesday, June 21 at around 5:30am he would later correct himself to say that this occurred on Thursday, June 22 at 5:30am he said that he immediately noticed Mike's truck's passenger side vent window had been broken. Mike told Tom that he and Berlin had been camping and gotten into an argument and that Berwin left the area. Mike asked if he could leave his truck at Tom's along with Berwin's purse for her to pick up at some point later that day. Tom agreed and the two had a couple cups of coffee before Tom drove Mike back to the campsite where Mike said he planned to stay out in the woods for a few more days. Upon arriving at the Masons campsite, Mike took Tom to the second campsite deeper in the woods where they'd later find the food caches and the lean to. While there, Mike retrieved his cached shotgun which Tom last saw him walking off into the woods carrying. Tom reported that Mike was wearing a heavy dark jacket, blue jeans, a baseball cap and dark tennis shoes and that he didn't appear to be in bad spirits despite the fight with Berwin. When asked, he said that he didn't believe Mike would do anything to hurt himself. Tom said he returned to the campsite twice to check on Mike. He couldn't find Mike nor most of his camping supplies on either trip. All that remained was some food and a fishing pole, and on his second trip out, he took the fishing pole with him for safekeeping. Tom told the officer that Mike had many food caches hidden throughout the woods, and later that night, Tom accompanied deputies back to the campground in an effort to find Mike's second campsite. But they couldn't locate it due to it being in such a densely wooded area and because of the darkness of the night search. On July 7, the lutes, the couple who camped near Mike the week he disappeared, submitted a written statement to investigators. It reads as the event below is what we the Lutes, remember about meeting a man who called himself Mike Kennedy at the Two Forks Campground on the afternoon of June 21, 2006. At approximately 3pm on the afternoon of June 20, we arrived at the Two Forks Campground at approximately 4:30pm we set up camp at site number four. For the next two nights we were sleeping in a tent and camping out of our car. We first noticed the late model Bronco truck parked in an adjacent site but didn't see anyone or a camp. The truck was parked there all night, but early the next morning the Bronco had been moved across the bridge and on to the other side of the river from the campground. We noticed it parked there that morning as we left for the day. We spent the day driving on the backroads and drove to the Tubal Cain trailhead. We returned to our camp at about 4pm to find our tent had been rifled through and our personal bags searched. One backpack containing two green rain suits and one small Coleman camp chair were stolen. Fresh beer had been spilled on the bed and some clothing. And at the point we entered the tent, the beer was still quite wet, as if it had just happened. We immediately looked around the campground and saw we were the only ones there. About half an hour later, a man calling himself Mike Kennedy walked into our camp. He asked if we saw anyone around because his Bronco had been broken into. He then said he had seen two guys in an older orange pit pickup truck driving away as he was walking up to his truck. It was right after that when he realized they might have broken his windshield and his passenger wing window in an attempt to break in. We must have talked for over an hour about different things. He said he was back there prospecting and that during the day he was looking for conchs on old dead trees because the river was running so high. He said he had a camp set up in the woods between the river and the road and that he was was moving the Bronco around to avoid the $10 per day camping fee. He said he could not drive the auto because error lights came on even though it would run. He said he called a friend who lived on Jimmy Come Lately Road to come help him. All the time we were talking to him, he was looking back at the road as if he was expecting his friend to come and didn't want to miss him. We never did see the friend and after a while he went back to the Bronco. About half an hour later, we walked over the bridge to the Bronco and Mike was there. We looked at his broken windows and glass on the ground that Mike suggested was from another car that had been broken into. Mike mentioned that he thought the person that broke in might have known him because someone knew where to look to find his gun. He was worried about leaving his truck there and we said he could park it in our site that night as we would be there until 10 the next morning. He moved his Bronco over to our site and parked it and left. The next morning. We got up at around 8am and the Bronco was gone. About an hour later, Mike came by the camp and said he moved the truck to the top of the hill because a car hauler was coming to get it. We Talked for about 20 minutes while we were breaking up camp and then he left. We then returned to our home in Dungeness. We left Two forks at around 9am on Thursday, June 22. Here are two photos taken without Mike's knowledge. Both were taken at about 7pm on Wednesday, June 21. The first of the two photos is a back shot of Mike sitting in the Lutes campsite. In it, he's wearing a dark colored baseball cap and a red and black plaid shirt. The second photo is of Mike's campsite that he built deep in the woods, which includes the lean to he built out of sapling branches, the campfire and two camp chairs. Draped over one of the camp chairs is a solid dark teal jacket which the Lutes note was the jacket he was wearing the last time they saw him on Thursday morning. And it should be noted that the man from Jimmy Come Lately Road that Mike told the Lutes was coming to pick him up was most likely Tom, who lived on Jimmy Come lately road. On July 13th at 3pm deputies located and interviewed Jerry, the VFW regular who according to Berwin, shared a beer with Mike at the campground on June 23. Jerry informed the deputy that he last saw Mike on Friday, June 23, when he ran into him at the Two Forks campground while scouting out the area for good fishing spots. He said he visited with Mason at the cocktail campground at around 8am Mike told him that some guy was coming to get him at around 9am that same day when he saw Mike. Mike was wearing a heavier coat, but he wasn't initially able to provide a more detailed description of the coat. Jerry told the deputy that when he had gone up to look at the river, he had a few beers with him. Mike offered to buy one off of him, but Jerry declined, declined his payment and gave him the beer for free. He recalled telling Mike about a fishing hole near an old log jam about three miles upriver. Mike told him he had been doing some gold panning, which Jerry thought was strange because the river was running pretty fast. When he saw Mike that morning, he noticed a rifle leaning against a tree, a backpack and sleeping bags. Jerry said said that he knew Mike through the VFW but didn't know him that well. He told the deputy that he knew Mike to be a moody person. While speaking further with Jerry about the coat Mike was wearing, Jerry described it as a wool jacket or coat with some green in it. He said that Mike usually wore a Levi's jacket. Jerry knew that Mike must have been having trouble at home or else he wouldn't have been in the woods alone. He said that Mike didn't mention fishing to him. He just discussed gold panning. And he told the deputies that he heard about a week after he visited with Mason at the campground that Mason was seen at the Tubal Cain trailhead. He said he heard this from someone at the vfw, but couldn't recall who. It's unclear in the case files how, but investigators eventually determined that the person who allegedly saw Mike at the campground a week after Jerry was a woman named Crystal who worked at an outpost a block away from the VFW. Police located and interviewed Crystal on July 14th. Crystal stated that she believed she saw Mike at the campground on the weekend before 4th of July while she was camping there. She stated that she arrived at the campground at around 5pm on Friday, June 30, and that a man resembling Mike was sitting on the bridge near the campground's entrance. She stated that she saw two camp chairs set up in the camping site just before the bridge, which she believed belonged to Mike. She stated that she and her husband arrived at the campground separately and that her husband Zeb arrived before she did, but she doesn't believe Zeb ever encountered Mike while there. She recalled that at the time the man she believed to be Mike was wearing a black and white white flannel coat, a baseball cap and jeans. She stated that Mike appeared pretty intoxicated. Crystal said that a lot of weird stuff happened at the campground that weekend. She had seen a couple of fights break out and that Forest Service had to eventually come up to break one up. She didn't know who was involved in the fights. She also stated that her husband's wallet disappeared while they were camping. Crystal told police that she recognized Mike as both a regular customer at the outpost as well as from his photos in the newspapers. Those are the five versions of events that influenced local law enforcement's timeline. And as you may have noticed, there are some major discrepancies amongst those stories. And those discrepancies center mostly around Mike's Bronco and several camping chairs. To review, Berwin says she last saw Mike at around 12:45pm on June 20 when she stormed out of the campground. She walked and hitchhiked to the VFW where she stayed until around 6:30pm when she got a ride home from Vinay. But then in the same statement, she says that she returned to the campsite at approximately 4:30pm on June 20 and broke into Mike's truck in an attempt to get his keys. And finally, she says she picked up Mike's truck From Tom on June 21st and drove back to the campsite but didn't see Mike. While at the campsite she saw a couple of camp chairs that she couldn't identify but thought might have been chairs that belonged to her mother, so she took them when she left. Tom says Mike dropped his Bronco off at his house on June 2022 at around 5:30am not the 21st, when Berwin reportedly picked it up from him and that when Mike dropped the truck off, its windshield was cracked and the passenger side vent window was broken. The loots say when they first encountered Mike at around 3pm on the 21st, their camp had just been broken into with a camp chair being stolen and Mike's truck had also just been broken into. They reported that Mike's truck remained in the area until the early morning hours of the 22nd and that when they left on the morning of the 23rd, Mike's second camp was still standing, which included two camping chairs. Jerry says when he ran into Mike on the 23rd, there were no camping chairs at his secondary camping location and Then there's Crystal's statement, which has a lot of issues. Crystal alleges she saw Mike on June 30 and that both camp chairs were present. However, on the 30th, search and rescue, the Coast Guard and Mike's friends and family were searching the campground all day. And no one else, including Crystal's husband, saw Mike there that day or at any point following Jerry's visit with him on the 23rd. Crystal also says she recognized Mike from his pictures in the news, yet didn't report the sighting for two weeks when the police appeared approached her. I don't quite know what to make of Crystal's statements, but I do have a very hard time believing that she saw him casually hanging out at the entrance to the campground on the same day that close to 50 people and a helicopter were searching the area for him. And a search of this magnitude seems like something that might stick out in someone's mind. But I do have a theory regarding this discrepancies amongst the other witnesses statements. Berwin tells investigators that she hitchhiked to the VFW on the 20th, then got a ride home from Vinay, which Vinay corroborated. More on that in a minute. So with corroboration that Berwin was at the vfw, as well as her having no reliable method to return to the campsite that afternoon, it seems unlikely that Berwin returned to the campsite and broke into the truck on the 20th. It also seems unlikely that Berwin retrieved the car on the 21st from Tom. Both Tom and the Lutes gave fairly detailed accounts that seem to indicate Mike took the car to Tom's on the morning of the 22nd, at which point the windows had already been broken. In fact, the windows appear to have been smashed on the 22nd in conjunction with the loot's campsite being ransacked and their camp chair stolen. And while Berwin claims she took two camp chairs on her second visit out to the campground, the one thing that remains consistent across all interviews is that Mike's camp chair stayed with him the whole time. So here's the timeline I've built in short order. On 6 20, Berwyn and Mike arrive at the campground at noon, immediately begin drinking and subsequently fighting. And Berwin leaves at some point between 12:45 and 4:30, at which point Mike begins moving their campsite to the more remote location in the woods. When the Lutes first arrive around four that day, they don't see any campers nearby and their campsite was the closest to Mike and Berwin's. On 6 21, Berwin somehow gets back to the campground and attempts to get the truck. At this point two things have changed. So since she drunkenly left, Mike has relocated into the woods and the lutes have arrived and set up camp near the initial campsite. Berwin says she sees camp chairs that she doesn't immediately recognize but assumes are her parents and takes them. The lutes report a stolen camp chair and beer spilled on their belongings. It seems likely to me that Berwin mistook the lutes campsite as Mike's went through it, spilled beer everywhere and absconded with their camp chair. She then tries to break into the Bronco by breaking the passenger side vent window but fails to gain access and leaves. On 6 22, Mike drops the truck and Berwin's purse off with Tom before returning to the campground. He then sees the loots off as they end their camping trip. On 6:23, Jerry runs into Mike at the campground and Mike tells him that some guy is coming to pick him up at 9 and that's the last confirmed sighting of Mike before Crystal alleges to see him a week later. During the search of the.

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Fall? The most compelling piece of evidence in Mike's disappearance was the wet jacket found on the riverbank which contained someone else's fishing license, items belonging to Mike, a man named Randy's, phone number and directions to an undetermined location, live shotgun rounds, a cigarette rolling machine, tobacco, live rounds to a.22 caliber handgun, and a piece of paper with the following names written in Mike's Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath and Tony Stewart. Now I've deliberately said the jacket and not Mike Mike's jacket because no one interviewed recognizes the jacket as Mike's. Police were able to track down and interview both Randy and Troy, the man the fishing license was issued to. On July 7, deputies contacted Randy who confirmed that he knew Mike and had last spoken to him about a month prior. When Mike asked him if he knew where he could get a pack mule, Randy put him in time touch with someone who was selling a pack mule and the directions found in the jacket pocket were directions to that man's house. On July 14, 2006 at 8:28am, police interviewed Troy. Troy stated that he last saw Mike at the VFW prior to his camping trip. He also confirmed that it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for Mike to have his fishing license license since the two frequently fished together and further investigation found that Mike's fishing license had expired in 2004. So it's possible that Troy let Mike use his while he was fishing alone. The final formal interview conducted was on March 1st of 2007 with the name Money, a mutual friend of Bruin and Mike's who worked at the vfw. Money stated that she thought about Mike every day. She said that about two weeks before he disappeared she took him up to Two Forks campground. She said that he was upset and took most of his clothing and guns out into the woods. She said that she was worried about him, but he told her that she didn't need to. She said that he was gone for 24 hours on that particular trip and that when he returned everything was fine. She said that Mike and Berwin were in the process of separating when Money took him to the river that day. She also mirrored other statements in saying that Berwin and Mike were both alcoholics. She then specified that Mike could quit drinking whenever he wanted to, but Berwin could not. She would essentially just drink until she became incapacitated. She told officers that on the weekend, the weekend she dropped Mike off in the woods, he told her that he didn't want to stick around and watch Berwyn drink herself to death. Vinay also told police that at some point between her dropping him off in the woods and his eventual disappearance, Mike spent a night at her house following a fight with Berwyn. And she confirmed that Berwin stayed with her after Mike disappeared. She arrived on June 21, the day after their fight and was visibly upset about the fight. When Mike went missing. Vinay asked Berwin if she pushed Mike into the river or did anything to hurt him. And according to Vinay, Berwin said that if she was going to kill Mike, she would have done it 25 years ago. Money said that she was upset that so many of Mike's so called friends from the VFW never went to help look for him. She said that she didn't expect that he was alive and presumed he was either eaten by a bear or fell into the river. Her biggest concern was that neither his guns nor his remains had been found, but that his belt buckle was. She said that he never took that belt buckle off. Money also discussed her concerns about Berwin. She said that she eventually asked Berwin to move out of her house house because her drinking was so excessive. She said that shortly after Mike's disappearance, Berwin began seeing two different men. She said that for the last four months Berwin had been drinking more than usual and she figured it was either a guilty conscience or the realization that she'd probably never see Mike again. Keyes timeline during the week of Mason's disappearance is at a minimum, incredibly suspicious. On Thursday, June 22, the day Mike dropped his truck off with Tom before returning to the campground, Keys was gone all day. He later told friends that he was picking up an ATV in Richfield, Oregon. And as we've discussed at length, there's no record of Keyes ever having, owning, buying, transporting or even borrowing an atv. And Ridgefield, Oregon isn't a real place. So all we know about his whereabouts that day is that no one saw him all day. He didn't go to work and his explanation for his absence was a lie. On Friday, June 23, the day of Mike's last confirmed sighting at around 8am by Jerry, Keyes, was again absent from work and out of sight all day. According to interviews with his friend A On the night of the 23rd, he arrived at a bonfire pretty late in the evening and A noted that he was noticeably Quiet and distant for most of the night. At one point, he attempted to brand himself with a metal rod. But a and their friends intervened. She said he was in a strange daze throughout the entire incident. She told investigators that this was the only time she'd ever seen Keyes exhibit behavior that was really odd. And that in hindsight, it was.

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Unnerving. Washington was a lot easier in a lot of ways because once I lived out in Neah Bay, I knew all of Washington pretty well and. Except I was so isolated out there. Once you drive past Port Angeles, it's like you're in a new world anyway. What's that whole.

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Part? There's a whole set of mountains right.

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There.

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Right. That separates Neah Bay from. Yeah, the Olympic welder, the Olympic Range. There's mountains everywhere out there. You don't really have to go over any mountain passes or anything to get to Seattle.

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Right? Right. No, not to.

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Get. But there is that parkland or wilderness.

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Area.

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Yeah. Once I had the boat, it was. By then I was pretty much coasting in my job, so I would take off for long weekends. My accountability was pretty low at that.

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Time. On June 24, a Keys and their friends took keys Bayliner boat out to Lake Ozette. It's the last reported use of the boat. While there, the back motor blew a rod and they ended up stranded on the lake for several hours. A is pretty certain this was the last time the Bayliner took to water and that Keyes never attempted to fix it before eventually hauling it to Dave's house prior to his move to Alaska eight months later. It appears sometime shortly following Mike's disappearance, Keyes left town. There's a gap in his timeline starting on June 25 and ending on July 10, when he either rents or returns a Hurt's rental car at an unknown location. Then on July 11, based on financial records, he's in Port Angeles pretty much all day. And while there is no direct evidence placing Keyes in the area when Mason disappeared, nor actual evidence that Keyes knew or was acquainted with Mason, there are certainly a lot of coincidences at play here beyond what we know about Keyes MO at this stage of his murders. Let's start with the obvious. The vfw. Keyes was a member of the VFW that Mike worked at, was a member of, and spent a majority of his time in. In fact, both Mike and Berwin's lives were pretty much rooted in that vfw. And according to every VFW member interviewed, not only was it common knowledge that Mike and Occasionally, Berwin camped cached. Food and guns fished and gold panned in that campground often. It was also common knowledge that Mike was there alone the week he went missing. Everyone who encountered him in the woods was an active member and frequent visitor at the vfw. Keys and Mike also had a lot in common. They were both handymen, they were both survivalists. They were both avid outdoorsmen. They both cached. And they both grew up in eastern Washington and moved to the Peninsula right around the same time. It's highly likely their paths crossed multiple times at the VFW and possibly beyond. And that takes us to the location Mike disappeared from. Two Forks Campground. Two Forks Campground has been described by both police and locals as a secret campground used by vets and survivalists, of which Keyes was both. It's located approximately one mile upstream from where Keyes went shooting. And then there's the MO and statements made by Keyes about his murders. Keyes abducted people from campgrounds, trailheads, fishing areas, and specifically from federal land in Washington state. Two Forks Campground is on federal.

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Land. Keep in mind the federal nexus that they talked about in the national.

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Parks. Yeah, I'll have to do some research on.

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That. We could do that, or you can check if you want to do.

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Something. Just to give you.

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Some. Yeah, just give me a couple lakes and I'll look them up for.

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Huh? We mentioned Washington is. I don't even remember. I mean, I know all the places I went, and I know that they're all public areas, but I don't know which ones were state, which ones were.

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Federal. I don't.

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Know. I never really paid that much attention. You seem adamant that there's no possible federal nexus to the Washington cases. And I'm just shocked because knowing the Peninsula like we do, there's so much federal land out there, especially with the national forests, national parks. And, you know, my understanding then would be that nothing's happened on those type of lands. Are we correct in understanding that, or no? I just didn't. I didn't know that would qualify as a federal crime. If it's a national park or something. National park or national forest, we could have jurisdiction on a felony. So, see, this. All this stuff is. The legal details aren't any.

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Me, but that's good to know. That's.

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Impossibility. And then there's that. Key's ideal victims were of smaller stature. Mike Mason was 5 foot 6 and 140 pounds. Keyes targeted couples. Mike was originally there with Berwin. And after Berwin Left a second older couple was camping nearby. Most of Keyes guns, specifically those cached, were stolen from his victims. All of Mike's belongings were recovered except for his.

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Guns. So what would your motivation be going.

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In? What would you be looking.

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For? What would you. Burglaries. I usually just jewelry and guns. Small guns.

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Smallish. So some of that. Are some of the guns that you still have in places, those guns or did you always get rid of.

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Those? No, I didn't get rid of them because I was worried about them getting.

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Tracked. So you keep them, but you don't keep them with you so that you're not caught with them. So you keep them in a cache somewhere and then use them when.

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You need statute of limitations like five or seven years or something like.

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That. I don't even know. So you.

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Wait. I can't tell whether that's supposed to be a joke, we're gonna get charged with that or whether. So you hide them for the statute of limitations period before you use.

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Them. Makes it a lot less likely that they get.

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Track. And then there's the boat. Keyes killed at least two people on his boat, one of which he admitted was on Lake Crescent, 40 miles from where Mike disappeared. And it seems the FBI had suspicions about both lakes, Quinault and Beaver, 150 and 70 miles from the campground, respectively. During the search of Keyes boat, he told investigators there would likely be blood and or bone fragment in or around the motor, but he wouldn't specify why. The day after Mike's last confirmed sighting, the motor in Keyes boat abruptly broke. And rather than repairing it, he never used it again and eventually abandoned it. And then there's the Port Angeles cache. Keyes tells the FBI that this cache is relevant to a Washington state crime. He also alludes to it being buried on federal land. What has always been suspicious to me about this particular cache though, is that Keyes couldn't remember where it was, which I call bullshit on. Keyes was able by memory or with the help of Google Maps, to direct the FBI to cache's in Essex, Vermont, Blake Falls Reservoir and Eagle River, Alaska, all in just a matter of several hours. Yet he couldn't remember where this cache was buried. This cache, which was admittedly relevant to crimes he didn't want to discuss. This cache, which was buried in an area he lived in for six years. And that to me means a couple of things. The cache was in an area relative to one of his crimes and or the cache contained evidence from one of his crimes. And to remind You Keyes was looking for someone who disappeared the week of June 20th. The name is 44. Daniel Barter, who disappeared on June 18th, 1959 Kristin Mota Ferri, who disappeared on June 23rd 3rd, 1997 and Lindsey Baum, who disappeared on June 26th, 2009. Berwyn Mason moved back to eastern Washington about six months after Mike disappeared. She was mostly cooperative with police throughout the entire investigation. On several occasions, she urged the press to continue reporting on Mike's disappearance, and she maintained a relationship with Mike's mother. In fact, it was Mike's mom who eventually urged Berwin to pursue a new relationship, saying it was time she moved on. And while everyone interviewed expressed some level of suspicion surrounding Berwin's extramarital activities and alcohol abuse, they all fall short of blaming her for Mike's disappearance. And that includes even her biggest critics. Berwin died in 2018. Mike's remaining family still actively engage with local law enforcement and hold them to account in continuing in their search efforts for Mike's remains. Neither Mike's guns nor the bracelets he was allegedly making for family members were ever recovered. While the jacket found along the river containing his belongings was wet, its contents were not. So it doesn't appear that that jacket ever went into the river. No one in Mike's life has ever been able to make sense of the three names scrawled on a piece of paper found inside the jacket. Mike never purchased a pack mule from Randy's friend, and there's been no clear explanation about why Mike would have lied to the Lutes or used a fake name with them. However, background searches show that Mike used several aliases, including Marlon Francis. Items seized from Keyes Anchorage home and the Blake Falls Reservoir cache included a.22 caliber handgun, a.20 caliber double barrel shotgun, and a handmade beaded bracelet and loose beads. It's unclear if any have ever been traced back to Mike or anyone else for that matter. I have not heard back from law enforcement since reporting the Keys. VFW.

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