Found Deceased ME - Gerry Largay, 66, Appalachian Trail, 21 July 2013

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Every time this thread appears on my subscribed list with a new post I get my hopes up that this is the day Gerry got found. Where are you, lovely lady?
 
Unscripted said:
M.I.A. on the A.T. (published June 30, 2015)
Lengthy article at link in which author addresses, among other things, the proximity of the US Naval Training Facility to Poplar Ridge Lean-to where Gerry was last seen. http://thebollard.com/2015/06/30/m-i-a-on-the-a-t/
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A follow-up to the article from the Bangor Daily News

http://chrisbusby.bangordailynews.c...fortable-facts-about-the-at-hikers-vanishing/

The questions he asks are pointed. Why local media not mentioning that she disappeared so close to a rugged military survival school, and why does there appear to be no local interest in how she disappeared so close to such a place?

Typically, lost hikers on the Maine stretch of the AT are found alive by the Warden Service within a day or two. While rare, there have been more unfortunate cases where a hiker has succumbed to medical or exposure issues on trail, and the Wardens have been the ones to return the body to the family.

While I cannot verify this as fact, many people in the local hiking community here (northern New England) have said that she was the first lost AT hiker that the Maine Wardens were not able to find.

Everything about this story continues to be so...baffling.
 
Sika said:
<snip> While I cannot verify this as fact, many people in the local hiking community here (northern New England) have said that she was the first lost AT hiker that the Maine Wardens were not able to find.

Everything about this story continues to be so...baffling.
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Earlier this year on this thread I talked about Jessie Hoover, who went missing in the early 1980s while apparently trying to hike the trail in Maine. Since then a journalism article has appeared and a thread was started:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?279473-ME-Jessie-Hoover-54-Millinocket-20-May-1983

It's possible Jessie Hoover's remains have been discovered somewhere but not matched up with her; this can be the case if the remains haven't been put into the right databse. I've wondered about the possibility of a serial killer taking both of them, but that's very unlikely, though not being found is also very unlikely, and successful serial killers often excel at hiding remains.
 
biscuits222 said:
Earlier this year on this thread I talked about Jessie Hoover, who went missing in the early 1980s while apparently trying to hike the trail in Maine. Since then a journalism article has appeared and a thread was started:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?279473-ME-Jessie-Hoover-54-Millinocket-20-May-1983

It's possible Jessie Hoover's remains have been discovered somewhere but not matched up with her; this can be the case if the remains haven't been put into the right databse. I've wondered about the possibility of a serial killer taking both of them, but that's very unlikely, though not being found is also very unlikely, and successful serial killers often excel at hiding remains.
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Thanks for posting this link to Jessie's thread. I put a link in her thread for reference to your post.
 
Just watching the North Woods Law episode and thought it was interesting that her husband waited to report her missing. Right at the start of the episode it says that he spent a day searching for her himself before calling the wardens. They never elaborate on that, like did he actually get out on the trail or where else was he looking for her? I guess it makes some sense that he'd wait as she was an experienced, but slow, hiker and he probably thought she'd show up but if he was searching for her then he also must have had an inkling that something might be wrong.
 
The fact that she didn't show up to meet him at the designated site was reason enough,imo.
 
And who was the mystery caller who told the motel owner that Inchworm was running late?
 
JMO.....but her husband had nothing to do with what happened.
 
Topcat said:
Well this was her first experience being alone on the AT, mixed with the fact she has never been on the trail before,poor weather conditions and her "poor sense of direction " ,could have set her off course. This would explain why nothing of hers was ever recovered. ...the searchers didn't go more than 40 yards or so off the trail. 120,150 feet really isn't that far when you take in consideration the vastness of the area.
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Honestly, They couldn't pay me enough to hike this trail alone.
 
I just watched the North Woods Law episode again.
It seemed like some of the video was updated, but I'm not sure.
 
CBS 13 News &#8207;@WGME
#BREAKING Maine Warden Service believes they have found the skeletal remains of Geraldine Largay
[video=twitter;654996495465365504]https://twitter.com/WGME/status/654996495465365504[/video]


Remains of missing Brentwood hiker found in Maine
http://wkrn.com/2015/10/16/remains-of-missing-brentwood-hiker-found-in-maine/
Due to the location and evidence gathered at the scene, the warden feels confident that Largay has been located.
A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday.
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WCSH 6 Verified account
&#8207;@WCSH6

#BREAKING: The Maine Warden Service will update the media at 1 p.m. in Augusta.
 
Topcat said:
http://www.wgme.com//news/features/...ne-largay-discovered-29553.shtml#.ViDxWvmrQX9

some closure for the family, and the conspiracy theorists,RIP

ps, I'm so curious as to where her remains were discovered in proximity to the AT.
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I don't know, but I'd speculate that she wasn't found too far off the trail. Its not too difficult to get off trail in a more desolate section of the hike -- or even a not-so-desolate section. (Happened to me last weekend, much to my partner's amusement. I lead us about 30 feet astray before realizing I had turned off the trail and was following a drainage ditch...LOL)

One area where maps are limited, is that they don't show all the ups and downs that could occur within the topo's 100 ft. contour curves. A slip on wet rocks could send a hiker tumbling in to a ravine :(

I wonder if the recent flooding in Maine washed away enough ground cover so someone could finally locate where she was?
 
Wow!
This is such good news that Gerry has finally been found after all this time even though it is sad. Hopefully, this will bring some peace to the family. And also some closure to the Maine Warden Service and searchers for their dedicated work in searching for her.

Using links above, I found that she was actually discovered Wednesday. Maybe the delay in releasing the info was to notify the family. It sounds like she was found near to where she was last seen.

Wardens say the remains were discovered in Redington Township on Wednesday, October 14.
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Two years ago today, Geraldine "Gerry" Largay, 66, of Brentwood, Tenn., was last seen on the early morning at Poplar Lean-to on the Appalachian Trail in Redington Township, which is located in Franklin County.
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Here is another article to reference.
https://bangordailynews.com/2015/10...ng-at-hiker-geraldine-largay/?ref=topStories0
 
anything interesting come out of the news conference in regards to Gerry?
 
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