What was supposed to be a pleasant trip made the two mysteriously disappear, as the investigation deepened, one after another incredible evidence, unexplained photos, pieces of skeletons with bleach, so that the police were confused, whether this was an accident or a well-planned crime, let us walk into this Panama rainforest disappearance.
Panama, a country known as the "Bridge of the World", attracts tourists from all over the world with its lush vegetation and well-preserved Gothic church architecture produced by its unique tropical marine climate. Lisanne Froon, 22, and Kris Kremers, 21, are among those tourists attracted to Panama.
The 22-year-old Lisani is 1.84 meters tall, physically strong, loves sports, was once the main player of the volleyball team, and she became a good girlfriend with Chrissy, who worked in the same restaurant.
21-year-old Chrissy, who is 1.75 meters tall and has blond hair, is also an extroverted and imaginative girl.
The two who lived in the same apartment decided to go on a study tour together after graduation, and because both were learning Spanish at the time, Panama, where the official language of the stunning scenery is Spanish, was designated by the two as a travel destination. Through consultation, the two learned that a 1-month volunteer teaching project in the small town of Blog in Panama was gathering volunteers.
The two people with love and responsibility believe that to become a volunteer teacher of the blog, the school will provide free accommodation, the two can enjoy the local rainforest scenery and learn Spanish by the way, and the second can teach local children some language and knowledge, but also do some useful things for local residents.
They sent emails to the school in advance, and after receiving a positive answer, the two began to save money for the study tour. Six months later, on March 15, 2014, the two boarded a direct Dutch flight to Panama and embarked on a six-week trip.
The two college graduates planned round-trip tickets and planned their own trips. After getting off the plane, they didn't go straight to the town of Blog, but took a tour of Panama City. The welcoming beaches of Panama, the dazzling museums, and the "Palace of the Herons", known as the "Palace of the Herons", the President Ma Mansion made the two dazzled.
The camera they carried with them also recorded the two people's trip to Panama, and the two people in the photo always showed a smile as cheerful as the sun. On the way, they also met a friend who had also traveled to Panama. After two weeks of fun, on March 29, the two arrived at Blog Town to start a four-week volunteer event.
Blogging special town
But the school's volunteers were already full, and it turned out that the school's volunteer recruitment was three days ahead of schedule, and the school claimed to have emailed Lisani and Chrissy. At that time, the phone could see the mail prompt, but the two said they did not see it. The two people, who are optimistic by nature, think that they should be having too much fun and grinning, so they didn't see it.
Now that the school is full, the two have no place to live, and there are still four weeks before the scheduled return time of the ticket, what to do? Lisani and Chrissy continued to search the Internet and found that the blog had a school called Riverside Spanish, and in order to continue their Spanish study trip, the two decided to enroll in the school's Spanish class and then stayed in a homestay near the school.
The school has received many students who came to study, intimately provided local tourism routes for the two Dutch girls, and the two people of the action faction also found a local travel agency, hoping to continue to visit the scenery of the blog town, and the travel agency recommended a local tour guide to them.
Curiously, the tour guide had a bad reputation, as he was said to have only received female guests and had been complained of using hands and feet against female guests. Due to Panama's special climate, the town of Blog is about thirty degrees during the day, but only a few degrees at night.
So Lisani and Chrissy arranged their study tour life as follows: going out in the morning, walking the husky of the hostess of the homestay and visiting the nearby natural scenery, returning to the homestay for a simple meal around noon, and going to the language school in the afternoon to study, but this itinerary was broken on April 1.
On April 1, Lisani and Chrissy decided to take the husky to climb the nearby Baru Volcano. Baru Volcano is a dormant volcano at 3,477 meters above sea level, the highest peak in the Republic of Panama, and it is not surprising that the two enthusiasts chose to climb the volcano.
Baru Volcano
Moreover, although sparsely populated on The Baru Volcano is also inhabited, the two chose the more famous "Pianist Trail" route according to the tourist route. This tour can be completed by walking for three or four hours from the homestay.
The two men and a dog who took a taxi to the foot of the mountain began the hiking trip. The two people, who love to record their lives in photos, climb the mountain, take pictures all the way, and upload them to their social networking sites, which show them reaching the top of the mountain around 11 noon.
According to the previous arrangement, they should have returned to the homestay at noon, but the hostess did not wait for them to return, not even the puppy returned, considering that there were still natives in the mountains, the hostess was not worried. Until the evening, the husky returned first, driving the bell on the door of the homestay, and the hostess thought that the two girls had also returned, so she closed the door and went to sleep.
The tour guide arranged by the travel agency and the teacher of the Spanish school found the hostess of the homestay. The tour guide claimed that Lisani and Chrissy agreed to enter the mountain on April 2, and the meeting place was the language school, but the two girls did not appear for a long time, so they came to the homestay to see if they were still there.
The lady of the homestay opened the room with a spare key and found that Lisani and Chrissy's things were there, not like they were preparing to return home. The three of them stayed in the room for thirty minutes, and then went to the neighborhood to inquire if anyone had seen the two girls. During this period, the tour guide used the reason of disappearing for 24 hours to call the police to let everyone wait and see, maybe the two came back by themselves.
It wasn't until dark that they contacted the local police. Parents in the Netherlands receive a daily text message from their daughter to report safety, but after April 1, they can't receive it, and Chrissy's father, Hans, said that he had sent a message to his daughter on April 2 to ask if everything was going well, but did not receive a reply.
The police thought the two girls might be in trouble, so on April 3 they sent a helicopter to conduct a carpet search with police dogs, and three days later, there was still no news. On April 6, the parents of the two families flew from the Netherlands to the small town of Blog in Panama to search for their daughter's traces with a search and rescue team sent by the Netherlands.
In desperation, Lisani and Chrissy's parents had to offer a reward of thirty thousand dollars to anyone who could provide clues. People say that under the heavy gold, there will be brave men, but in this disappearance case, no one has taken the thirty thousand dollars. The two girls seemed to have evaporated from the world and disappeared to the top of the Baru Volcano.
Two months later, the appearance of a backpack provided a clue to the unsolved case. The backpack appeared in the rice fields on the banks of the Culebra River and was found by a peasant woman who swore she had not seen it in the rice fields yesterday. And this backpack is indeed too clean in the panamanian rainforest where it rains all year round.
Police opened the dry backpack and found two corsets, two pairs of sunglasses, an empty water bottle, two cell phones, a digital camera without a lens cap and $83, as well as passports and health insurance cards. The passport bears Lisani's name, and the owner of the medicare card is none other than her companion Chrissy. Everything is preserved in its entirety.
Based on the girls' habit of recording their whereabouts with photos, the police immediately tested the girls' mobile phones and digital cameras. The girls, who had been missing for ten weeks, had news, but the news was confusing.
The digital camera consisted of two sets of photographs, one taken by the girls on April 1, from 11:16 (close to the time when the two reached the summit) to 13:54, a total of thirty photos were taken, showing photos of the two people on the "Pianist's Path", the content is clear, and the two girls take turns to leave the country. The last photo in this group is numbered IMG-508.
The second set of photographs, taken between 1:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on April 8, for a total of ninety photos, not only did they have no subject, but most of the photos were blurry, with only one photo of the girl with the sharpest back of her head, and the girl's blond hair indicating that she was Chrissy, and oddly enough, the first photo of the group was numbered IMG-510.
Where did the vanished IMG-509 go? The police used technical means to try to recover the IMG-509 in the camera memory card, but found that the camera was not deleted on the camera, but connected to the computer, deleted by professional means, and could not be recovered. As mentioned above, the two girls did not have notebooks in their backpacks and carry-on belongings, so who deleted this photo?
Some netizens found suspected white rolls of paper, mirrors and other items through this blurry ninety photos, speculating that the two people tried to use these things to cause reflections after seeing the helicopter and attracting the helicopter to achieve the purpose of distress. But the problem is that the helicopter began a comprehensive rescue from the third, and with the search range of the helicopter, the two girls would not wait until the early morning of the eighth to discover the existence of the helicopter.
Moreover, the daytime sunlight reflects on the mirror, the reflection will be more intense, and the white objects will be more eye-catching, so why wait until the early morning of the eighth day to place the objects and shoot continuously? Were the previous numbers one and seven unavoidable?
The police also took these questions and continued to search. The local guide organized 6 male aborigines familiar with the terrain and began to search along the upper culebra River where the backpack was found.
Unlike the previous two months without a clue, in just two days they found a pair of denim shorts on the rocks on the riverbank, which, according to the photos left by the girls, confirmed that it was Chris's.
Moreover, under a tree not far from the pants, another shoe was found, and one foot was "worn" in the shoe. The search team then found some leg bones and a pelvic bone in the surrounding area. According to expert examinations, the leg bone and that foot found by the search team belonged to Lisani, and the pelvic bone belonged to Chrissy.
According to the forensic medical examination, the broken foot did not have any wounds and the section was clean and there was no blood, which indicated that the foot was broken under the conditions of physical decay. But the girls have only been missing for two and a half months, and in this short period of time, can the corpses meet the conditions for corruption?
Even stranger, the forensic doctor found a high concentration of sulfate on Chrissy's abnormally white pelvic bone, which is usually the exclusive ingredient of bleach...
Although the girls' parents accepted the death of their daughter, they hoped that the Panamanian government would continue to search for the girls' bones, after all, the more they found, the closer they were to the truth of their deaths.
On August 29, 2014, Panamanian authorities found more remains of Lisani and Chrissy in the jungle, but surprisingly, the remains found this time were also muscular tissue, which was in the early stages of decay. It is strange that the bones in June have been corrupted without any organization, but the bones in August are in a state of decay.
Unfortunately, the skeletons still cannot determine the cause of the girls' deaths. In October 2014, the Netherlands and Panama still concluded the case with the accident. They believe that on April 1, the two did not follow the prescribed range of the "Pianist Trail", resulting in a lost road, and the next day's rain in the rainforest made the road muddy and difficult to walk, so the two suffered an accident.
It is said that the lawyer hired by the girls' parents once re-walked the "Pianist's Path", which he found to be no more than 3.2 kilometers long, passing through thick clouds and seeing jungles and waterfalls. However, if you do not return to the same path after reaching the summit, it is not easy to get lost by taking another path. And it's not a no-man's land, with locals driving cattle passing by from time to time, and mobile phone signals in the open.
And the unblazed road that is more difficult to walk than the trail has no signal, and the girls should not voluntarily walk. He applied for a criminal investigation, but was rejected by Panamanian officials on the grounds that the coffin had been established.
Parents of two children
But we can still get a glimpse of it from off-site information. From whom did the two girls learn about the "Pianist's Path"? I think someone who knows a lot about local tourism should tell her.
Who picked up the girl's backpack? A peasant woman was found in a rice field, and it was very coincidental that the husband of the village woman was the assistant of the tour guide who called the police, and even more coincidentally, the son of the tour guide lived in the same village as the peasant woman.
According to the tour guide himself, when the peasant woman found the backpack, she did not hand it to the police at the first time, but gave the backpack to herself and asked herself how to deal with it, and he asked the peasant woman to hand over the backpack to the police.
I don't know if you remember, after the backpack was found, the local guide organized a search team and found the skeleton, and the tour guide was the guide who made an appointment with the girls to climb the mountain. And the items that the girls left in the room before climbing the mountain happened to have this tour guide's business card...
In fact, the most shocking thing about the whole incident is that the two girls have planned for tourism, and have a certain self-awareness and self-protection ability, but they are inexplicably dead.
I hope to take the experience of these two girls to remind you to travel, first, you must do a strategy, easy to report your whereabouts, now is the data era of developed network development, when you decide to travel, you can maximize the collection of the required information, and then according to personal preferences screening, so as to develop their own strategies.
Travel guide
For example, if you like ancient Buddha temples, you can inquire about the famous local temples, whether this temple provides suhoor meals, accommodation, or whether there are homestays and places to play near the temple, what are the characteristics, etc. Making strategies in a planned way and sharing them with your friends and family will also give you a little more security.
Carefully choose the travel route, take the main route as the best choice, the main route to visit the number of places, if there is a real emergency and shout for help, there will be a high probability of getting the help of passers-by.
Conversely, if it's a sparsely populated route, you have to communicate well when you need help, but if there is no signal like The Lisani and Chrissy mentioned above, you can only ask for more blessings.
Third, it is best to walk with more than two people, if you like to feel the natural scenery in inaccessible places, such as the top of the mountain or the deep mountain, then you must do the first step, and you must pick a very trusted friend, many people have great strength, and there are many ways to think.
If you travel alone, in the event of an accident, it is easy to sit still, and have friends to accompany, you can take care of each other, peace of mind. In short, travel is a matter of relaxing yourself and making the soul comfortable, but safety first, I hope that everyone will be more careful when traveling, go out happily, and go home safely.