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Missing Woman's Trail Littered With Questions
Michelle Vanek Still Missing After Largest Search In Colorado History
POSTED: 10:53 am MST December 5
MINTURN, Colo. -- Out of water and exhausted near the summit of her first 14,000-foot peak, Michelle Vanek sat down on a rock on a windy September afternoon and implored her hiking companion to go ahead.
It was the last anyone saw of the 35-year-old Lakewood mother of four, who disappeared high on Mount of the Holy Cross in a case that remains an unsolved mystery despite the largest search in Colorado history.
Did she stumble and fall to her death or mistakenly wander down the wrong route, eventually to be overcome by the elements, as searchers speculate? Was she killed by an animal, perhaps indicated by a spattering of blood spotted in the snow some distance away? Or did a mysterious squatter who refused to answer questions from sheriff's investigators have anything to do with her disappearance?
Newly released investigative documents detail the numerous missteps taken by Vanek and her hiking partner, Eric Sawyer, and the exhaustive seven-day search that ensued. But the complete story remains elusive.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5468911/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news
Michelle Vanek Still Missing After Largest Search In Colorado History
POSTED: 10:53 am MST December 5
MINTURN, Colo. -- Out of water and exhausted near the summit of her first 14,000-foot peak, Michelle Vanek sat down on a rock on a windy September afternoon and implored her hiking companion to go ahead.
It was the last anyone saw of the 35-year-old Lakewood mother of four, who disappeared high on Mount of the Holy Cross in a case that remains an unsolved mystery despite the largest search in Colorado history.
Did she stumble and fall to her death or mistakenly wander down the wrong route, eventually to be overcome by the elements, as searchers speculate? Was she killed by an animal, perhaps indicated by a spattering of blood spotted in the snow some distance away? Or did a mysterious squatter who refused to answer questions from sheriff's investigators have anything to do with her disappearance?
Newly released investigative documents detail the numerous missteps taken by Vanek and her hiking partner, Eric Sawyer, and the exhaustive seven-day search that ensued. But the complete story remains elusive.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5468911/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news