Aug 28, 2024
Jamie Tennison, 18, entered the Savanna State Forest for a hunting trip with his father and a friend Oct. 15, 1992, never to be seen again.
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<<“I grew up in the Jacobson area and went to high school at McGregor, so that was a familiar area,” Jim said. “We were both fairly familiar with that area that we were hunting, which was about 3 miles south and 6 miles in on the Hedbom Forest Road.”
Furthering Jamie’s confidence in the woods was the training he received during a three-day survival course and Minnesota Deer Hunters Association Forkhorn Camp, and he frequently camped in the woods alone, Jim said.>>
<<Dressed in ripstop camouflage pants, a lightweight green camouflage jacket with a vest, a red-and-blue flannel shirt and a Los Angeles Kings ball cap, Jamie walked alone with his brand-new Remington 870 Express 12-gauge shotgun in hand.>>
<<“Aitkin County basically did not run any kind of search and rescue,” Jim claimed. “They never set foot in the woods at all, didn't do any organizing. It was all done by friends of mine, or volunteers or Minnesota Power.”>>
<<Over the next 10 days, the Tennison family, friends and co-workers conducted extensive searches in the thick, swampy brush and timber-filled woods with floating bogs and numerous predators. Volunteers used dogs, horses and helicopters to comb the area in a grid-style search, Jim said.>>
<<“People that suffer from hypothermia, what they do is they run, they start shedding items,” Jim said. “Caps, vests, guns, whatever. We never found anything. So wherever Jamie ended up, all his stuff ended up with him.”>>
