There has been a lot of focus on the abduction/other foul play angle in this case. Until something more is known, possibilities can't be ruled out utterly, but misadventure with (by now) fatality just seems so much more likely. Exertion above 9000 feet altitude within hours of arriving from a road trip from around sea level is how young people in otherwise good shape end up in crisis in Colorado. The terrain along that Forest Road 250 is extreme. The river is nearby. The search dogs found no scent of Joe Keller anywhere, even where he was known to be, so that (contrary to what a lot of people have been saying) is not evidence of anything. It means that those dogs are not going to solve this mystery and nothing else. I have heard all kinds of rumblings of corruption and patterns of crime and disappearance in Conejos County (an area with which I am moderately familiar), but I have not heard any fact-based, clear accounts that support these rumblings. Hundreds of people have been involved in the search. Dogs, mounted teams, aircraft, and drones have been involved. The family seems focused on the idea that someone knows where Joe Keller is and the goal is to find that person and financially incentivize this person to reveal Joe's whereabouts, but it seems so much more likely to me that *no one* knows where Joe Keller's body is, precisely, but that it's somewhere near where he was last seen alive. This happens sometimes in rough terrain.