eyes. the river that runs through all of this is with money. very much so. now it s time to find out the truth. i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you can t ever leave now. right? hello and welcome to dateline! colorado rancher jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and texts. his friends feared the worst. but years would pass before a series of clues exposed a truth far darker than even they imagined. here is josh mann koen s with trouble at the 7-11 ranch! home on the range. sometimes here in western colorado it is so quiet that all you can hear is the wind. beautiful meadows that wave in the breeze, it s a lovely part of the valley. it is beautiful, no doubt. at the same time, that lovely lonely valley can be unforgiving place to live. it can drive some people to extremes. no one understood that bet
or done there was fire in their eyes. the river that lands through all of this is with money. very much so. now it s time to find out the truth. i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you can t ever leave now. right? hello and welcome to dateline! colorado ran shirt jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and texts. his friends feared the worst. but years would pass before a series of clues excused a truth far darker than even they imagined. here is josh mann koen s with trouble at the 7:11 ranch! home on the range. sometimes here in western colorado it is so quiet that all you can hear is the wind. beautiful pain meadows that wave in the breeze, it s a lovely part of the valley. it is beautiful, no doubt. at the same time, that lovely lonely valley can be unforgiving place to live. it can drive some people
sheriff paid his own visits to the 7:11. and heard that jake had returned. his mom said jake had been gone for a little while, but then came back. to pick up supplies. she says that jake was with a friend. someone that she did not know. deb was telling us that it was late at night, he took a bunch of camping gear and loaded it up, in a pick up truck and took off. there was no room for the dog. none of it made sense. what could jake be up to? and who takes a trip without his cell phone? she told us the phone fell in an irrigation ditch. and she showed us the phone. it was in a bag of rice. that could definitely explain why jake wasn t answering any calls or texts. deb said that jake told her that he was off to nevada. to study martial arts. so we really didn t have anything to go with at that point.
brother in law trying to do something to head. so he was protecting himself. so that was more strange when wagner saw. this posted on dave s facebook page. him astride jakes prized bike. something that jake would ve never tolerated. he loved that motorcycle. it had a history with him. nobody could ride it, if i heard correctly. he loved that bike he wrote it as much as he could to see something like his arch nemesis on his bike was really weird. maybe jake would ditch the ranch. maybe even the dog. but not the harley. that picture told jake s friends something that they did not want to admit. but now, could not avoid. jake was never coming back. where was jake? investigators turn up the heat on jake s family. and uncover a twisted trail of lies. coming up! the cities kept changing. and the reasons why he was leaving kept changing. and in any of those cities, you couldn t find anybody who had seen him or talk to him? and there was no financial record of him in any of tho
by august, jake had been gone almost three months. and by then, it seemed even his mom was becoming concerned. she filed a missing persons report. that wasn t enough for jake s friends. they wanted to get his story out. so they contacted chris rourke. a reporter for the gunnison times. and she called jakes mom. hey deb, thanks for calling me back. no problem. what was deb like? small, wiry woman. very talkative. she liked to talk. i know he originally was gonna go on his motorcycle. but decided to go with somebody. while the reporters recorder ran. deb told her the same thing that she had told the sheriff s deputy. jake had run off. he had taken off in a truck with a friend. and the friend did not want the dog along. and he took enough stuffer to people. she started out a little reticent. and then, the details started