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Philipps: Back in 2014,
two dutch girls came in, did a moderate hike.
A couple months later, they found their bones.
This trail is a drug trafficking trail.
Kelley: We're going in there unannounced.
Van de goot: It's game over.
People die up here.
Why is that?
You don't even want us to show your face.
♪♪
narrator: Every day, people vanish.
Each mystery leaves a trace of truth.
Journalist kinga philipps
and filmmaker-explorer j.J. Kelley are searching
for people who are lost in the wild.
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-hey, there, dude. -Andrew, you a little dusty?
-Yeah. -Welcome to boquete.
We're here because back in 2014, two dutch girls came in...
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...Did a moderate hike just north of the town, vanished.
One of the biggest search efforts in this area.
A couple months later, they found their bones.
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official panamanian conclusion --
they fell off a bridge while crossing river.
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then the other theory is foul play...
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...Which could be anything from cartels
to a group of murderers to a serial killer.
And the route they took is the pianista,
a trail that takes you to the top of the ridge,
the continental divide, and then on the other side of the ridge
is an old native path called the serpent trail,
and that stretches through panama's darkest jungles.
Well, the crazy thing, j.J., is that there have been
a number of disappearances and murders here.
They're not the only ones.
Panama is only 37 miles wide at its thinnest,
and so if anything illegal is coming up through south america,
it has to pass through panama.
And there's a good chance, good or bad,
if it was illicit, came through here.
Let's talk to some people.
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-ready? -Yeah. We're set.
Light okay? Your mic is good.
Looks good? -Got it.
Good. -Take 6. Marker.
Tell me about this pianista trail.
Is this a trail where you can get lost easily?
[ speaking spanish ]
only one.
There's no way to get lost. You actually don't need a guide.
What about the official story from the panamanian government
that they fell from the monkey bridge
and their bones were washed downriver?
-No way. -Why not?
Because they would never, ever go on it.
This area also has a bit of a reputation.
Yes, I know.
There are other people who have gone missing here, correct?
Yes. Correct.
There's hundreds of cases like that.
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philipps: So, we know the official panamanian story
is that the girls made it past the pianista
and onto the serpent trail.
And from there, apparently,
they fell from the first cable bridge,
which we call the monkey bridge.
I mean, for me, the question is,
is it realistic that the girls even made it that far?
And if we can figure that out, that might actually
shed some light on all the other disappearances, too.
♪♪
this is the start of the pianista.
So this is where lisanne and kris started,
April 1, 2014.
You know what? I have those pictures, actually.
Yeah, so, we've got photos from the girls.
We know when they were here, they were really happy.
One thing we're gonna try to do is find the spots
and match as best we can where they hiked
and really re-create their path.
Yeah, follow in their footsteps. Then we got to test
against the official panamanian story.
Look how happy they were. I know.
I bet they were having the time of their lives.
Philipps: So, they were 21 and 22.
Lisanne was described as smart and introspective.
She studied applied sciences and was a talented athlete.
Kris was said to be really creative,
an aspiring actress who was caring and outgoing.
They both saved up money to come here and volunteer
at a local school.
And then one day, they pack up just a few things
for what was a casual hike, popular trail.
And then, mysteriously, they both vanish.
[ speaking spanish ]
so it's what, couple hours to the top?
I'm gonna time this, actually, see how long this takes us.
Alright. Ready? Yeah.
-Ready, andrew? -Yeah, let's do it.
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look how wide this trail is. Like, to me, right now,
if it continues on like this,
you don't get lost on this. Right.
You don't slip and fall
and then 20 days of searching doesn't find you.
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check that out. A shack.
Think someone lives there? I don't know.
The bottom of this trail is so heavily populated.
Yeah. And we know that this is
a pretty well-trafficked trail by the local people.
I would be stunned if someone didn't see these girls.
♪♪
there's an article titled, "the hills have eyes."
yeah. I kind of feel that here.
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van de goot: When you're looking at the pianista trail,
there are little farms everywhere.
There's no way not to be noticed up there.
You're actually passing through people's backyard.
Kelley: Check it out. Guy watching right there.
Philipps: I know.
♪♪
there are a lot more people out here than I expected.
Yeah.
So, let's go.
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this is it. This is the top.
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that would be the pacific ocean over there,
and then that way would be caribbean sea.
So this is the continental divide.
And look at this.
This is the memorial to the girls.
They put their deceased date as April 1st.
That's the day that everything went wrong.
So, most of the tourists stop right here,
and for whatever reason, these two decided
that they were gonna keep going.
[ speaking spanish ]
so, "end of the trail, don't go past this."
kelley: I wonder if this sign was here when the girls were here.
You know what? I have those photos.
So, we know that eight photos were taken within six minutes
from the metadata on the phone and the camera,
and they were all taken up here.
They were right here.
So, she's standing literally right there.
They left at 11:00 a.M. They made it up here at 1:00.
So it took them two hours to get up here.
They would've been happy.
They would've been enjoying themselves, moving forward.
And three hours later... Something happened.
Something changed.
And we know that something happened at that point
because of the phone records. The girls had a phone with them,
and a few hours later down this trail,
they made their first emergency call.
We know that about 4:30, when they start calling,
something is wrong.
Philipps: The first distress call
was made on April 1st at 4:39 p.M.
And then they tried the dutch emergency line 112,
which didn't go through. Then they tried 911,
which is a private ambulance service here in panama,
but that one only briefly connected.
So, not long enough to speak to anyone.
So, after that, someone continued to use the phone
either to make a distress call or check for signal
every day up until April 6th.
Philipps: So, you do think they were alive for several days
after they disappeared on April 1st.
Yes. Unfortunately, yes.
So, we don't know what was happening during that period.
I mean, maybe they were lost.
Maybe one of them was injured or died
in some kind of a freak accident.
I mean, maybe they had been kidnapped, held hostage,
but had somehow managed to hide their phones.
What do you think was going on in the girls' heads
at this point?
Waiting, yes.
Panic, yes.
Fear, yes.
Philipps: Then, on April 7th, everything changes.
Between April 7th and 10th, there are 77 attempts
to access the phone with an incorrect pin.
And on top of that, someone uses the camera
to take 90 incomprehensible photos at night,
which are like something out of a horror movie.
What about the photos from the camera?
There were 90-plus photos taken of just random things.
Yes, I saw them.
They're creepy. They're "blair witch project."
it's terrifying. It is terrifying.
And then at the same time, you have this constant feeling
that you're not alone.
Everybody in town knows that we're on this trail.
That's it. They know that we're here.
So people knew that these girls were here.
They had to have.
What do you want to do?
You want to keep going the way they did?
Guess we have to, right?
I'm interested in what they saw next.
The part of the jungle out there
is known by the guides as "jungle hell."
past the continental divide, people die up here.
So, imagine -- if this is 1:00,
this is what time we're here... Mm-hmm.
That first emergency call was made 3 1/2 hours later.
So within 3 1/2 hours, something bad enough happened
that those girls needed to make an emergency call.
Right.
And it happened down there.
Let's keep going, then. Okay.
Philipps: [ sighing ] okay.
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♪♪
kelley: Kinga and I are following in the footsteps
of two dutch hikers
who went missing on this trail in panama.
We're putting the official story to the test,
trying to figure out
where they made their first emergency call, and why.
♪♪
philipps: This is unreal.
Yeah, we're in a trench right here.
Lookit -- that's 20 feet up.
If I was from here, and if I was going after the girls
and I was quiet about it and they were making noise,
you could watch them from right up here.
♪♪
this is the perfect terrain to surveil them.
♪♪
and then, look -- you pop down and you say, "aah!"
and where am I gonna go? You're trapped.
So maybe it wasn't that they got lost --
maybe it was that they were followed.
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this could very well be
where these last daylight photos were taken.
2:00, they were crossing this stream,
which times out for us in the hike that we just did,
that this could be it.
After this, we know 2 1/2 hours later,
they tried to call for the dutch equivalent of 911.
Let's see if we can re-create it.
Let's see if we can get a shot of it.
Yep.
[ camera shutter clicking ]
philipps: I don't know. It's a little different.
But, again, it's...
Everything would be different. ...A dynamic jungle.
Yeah, the water level would be different,
the moss would be different, the rocks would be different,
the foliage would be different. The trail, everything.
♪♪
so, it's 4:39 p.M.
This is the exact time
the girls made their first distress call for help.
Now, the official government story
is that they ran into trouble at the monkey bridge,
a.K.A. The cable bridge,
and we're still hours away from that.
It seems unlikely that they made their first distress call
before they made it that far.
But if that's the case, how did their remains
and their belongings end up so deep in the jungle?
♪♪
think we should set up camp for the night.
I think we have to. And I'd rather do that now,
before it gets super dark.
Alright.
Alright, hammock.
You got that? Okay.
Let's try...That tree and that tree.
When you're out there in daylight,
there is no problem.
When you're out there in the dark,
it's game over.
♪♪
[ insects buzzing ]
♪♪
philipps: There were over 90 photos taken.
88 of them are just black photos,
like they were shooting into the night sky.
And the theories are that they could've been trying
to signal, which is actually really smart,
with the flash. Signaling for help.
Yeah. Okay.
And then we have four of them, and these photos were taken
the night of April 7th into the morning of April 8th.
♪♪
they're just so random. Like, what were they doing?
You have a rock, and you have this red material --
I guess candy wrappers -- around it...
Kelley: Yeah. ...Tied to this twig.
The theory is that one of the girls was already deceased
and the other one was trying to mark the location of her body.
This...This is what it's speculated to be --
a backpack strap, a mirror,
and toilet paper or some kind of...
I mean, it has writing on it. That's not toilet paper.
And then this one is super weird, a little eerie.
You see that, right there?
Some people say that that could be a body
or to me, more likely, if it is a human,
it's somebody passing through beneath.
These photographs, to me, look like they were taken
from inside a nightmare.
[ camera shutter clicking ]
♪♪
look, we know that this trail is a drug trafficking trail.
Like, we have been told that.
They told us not to stay out here at night.
So we know that there are shady characters
that make their way through here.
I think every night, if they were out here, was terrifying,
but the night that all those photos were taken
must have been the scariest -- [ cracking ]
what was that? I don't know what that was.
[ birds, insects chirping ]
♪♪
I'm gonna go check it out.
♪♪
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something falling or something moving?
What is that?
♪♪
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philipps: So, I'm in the jungles of panama
investigating the disappearance of two dutch girls.
And if I've learned anything so far,
it's that this jungle is absolutely terrifying.
♪♪
[ insects buzzing ]
♪♪
[ cracking ]
♪♪
what is that?
♪♪
oh, my god, this jungle...
♪♪
what is that?
[ leaves rustle, thud ]
j.J.!
Kelley: I didn't mean to scare you.
I didn't see anything out there,
but that doesn't mean that someone isn't watching.
If you live in this area,
you're a lot more comfortable out here at night than we are.
I think we should sleep in shifts,
if you're up for it. Yeah.
I think we should sleep in shifts,
and I also think we should keep the lights off.
Yeah, let's keep a low profile.
'cause I don't like the idea that someone could see us
and we couldn't see them. Yeah.
Let's turn all the lights off right now, actually.
♪♪
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so, I feel like a little bit of a [bleep]
sitting here in my raincoat
and my jacket underneath and my dry shoes
and my hammock to keep me off the ground,
knowing that we have flashlights and food,
and we're re-creating the steps of these two women
who had none of that.
[ camera beeping ]
when I was their age, 21 years old,
I did the exact same thing that they did.
I worked at a restaurant to save enough money
to have this meaningful trip to come down to central america.
Whatever happened to them took away
what should have been one of the best experiences of their life.
♪♪
how'd you sleep?
[ scoffs ] sleep?
I don't know how those girls even lasted as long as they did
without anything, to be honest.
Yeah, you're right.
Well, it's early.
I think if we're gonna make it to that monkey bridge,
now's the time to do it.
[ laughing ] you haven't seen the cable bridges?
No. No.
Uh, I'm a mountaineer.
You feel mortal on the bridge. [ laughs ]
♪♪
whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Watch yourself here.
I don't think we're gonna cross here.
Maybe there? Yeah.
That's a solid jump.
So, this is the serpent river, though, right?
So this is where the panamanian government says
that they fell from monkey bridge and died.
Which, thinking of how far we've come,
we are hours past that last photo
that was taken at the creek.
So the idea of them making it here
that first day during daylight...
Yeah.
♪♪
watch out for snakes, j.J.
They don't call this serpentine river for no reason.
♪♪
this is the monkey bridge.
♪♪
that is not a bridge -- that is a wire.
♪♪
that's the official story from the panamanian government,
that they fell from these bridges.
No way. You don't believe that.
No way. No way. Why not?
Because they would never, ever go on it.
Why? Because it's so hazardous?
Because they're sensible girls.
♪♪
the panamanian government says
they fell from a monkey bridge
and were either gravely injured or killed.
So then, we know that the jean shorts
were found a couple hours downriver from here.
And then after that a couple hours,
bones turned up all together --
the shoe, the foot,
the pelvis, the rib.
And then several hours' hike after that,
the backpack was found.
So, if the panamanian story lines up, this would be
the source where all the evidence emerged from.
Kelley: What would happen if you fell off one of these bridges?
First, you'll break your neck. Second, you'll break your neck.
Third, you'll break your neck. Then you'll fall in the water
and break your neck. You're dead.
Uh, yeah, quite.
Philipps: I have zero trust in this bridge.
I just really want to see what it feels like.
♪♪
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Kelley: I don't like this. Yeah, nope.
I don't, either. I don't like it.
[ water roaring ]
♪♪
yeah, j.J., I... I don't know.
Like, no matter how desperate,
I don't know that I would do this.
And the further out you get, the more bouncy it gets.
I don't think it's worth it. Just get back here.
Oh, [bleep]!
♪♪
yeah, j.J., I... I don't know.
Like, no matter how desperate,
I don't know that I would do this.
And the further out you get, the more bouncy it gets.
I don't think it's worth it. Just get back here.
Oh, [bleep]! [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]
you alright?!
Yeah, no, I just scratched myself.
These wire-- I'm going back. I'm going back.
♪♪
you okay? Yeah.
I probably have tetanus, but I'm okay.
I can't imagine those girls went across this bridge.
No. There's no way. No way.
I would honestly rather swim acr--
oww! [bleep]
look at how frayed this is.
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that was pretty miserable. It was.
And in some ways, it was enlightening.
In others, it was confusing.
Yeah, you're right.
I mean, that trail's like a trench.
It's hard to get lost.
There were the monkey bridges, which it's possible to fall off.
But there's no way the girls would have made it out this far
before making that distress call.
♪♪
[ indistinct conversations ]
♪♪
alright, here we are. What's going on?
Well, we have followed in the girls' footprints
as much as we possibly can, been in the jungle,
and we know the official story just doesn't add up.
So I think we need to look at this evidence
a little more closely.
This is super fascinating.
The last photos that were taken were 507, 508.
And the next photo that comes up
in these totally bizarre nighttime photos is 510.
So, where's 509?
That seems curious, and that points to foul play.
Here's why --
I've been shooting on many cameras.
It's rare that one photo is just gonna randomly disappear.
Like a glitch. Like a camera glitch.
Exactly. And here's another thing --
this is the same camera the girls used.
Want to give this a try. I'm gonna take a picture of you.
[ camera shutter clicks ]
alright. Take a look at this.
So, the photo I just took of you,
is photo 64.
Go here, delete.
64 -- gone. Gone. Okay, so...
I'm gonna take a new photo.
[ camera shutter clicks ]
and this photo here...
Is number 64 again. 64.
So what that means is that photo 509 was deleted
after the nightmare sequence was taken.
So, you can't actually do that in the camera.
No. No, you can't.
So, two months later, the backpack turns up.
A woman from alto romero finds this backpack,
and in it, their two bras were in there,
two pairs of sunglasses.
We have their two phones.
In your final moments, you're gonna take your things
and neatly put them into a backpack?
Doesn't add up.
To me, this backpack feels like it was planted.
And we know that that area is a drug trafficking trail.
There are shady characters. Right, exactly.
This, for me, more than anything points to foul play.
Alto romero is where the woman lives who found the backpack.
If we could find this woman and if she'll talk
for the first time...
She could really...She could be a key link in this case.
Well, let's get there.
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kelley: We're about to fly into the jungle
to a tiny town called alto romero.
It's remote. It's rugged. It's a 14-hour hike.
We couldn't reach it in two days.
Once we get there in the bird,
if the weather turns bad, we're past the point of no return.
[ helicopter blades whirring ]
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philipps: Gorgeous, huh, j.J.? Incredible.
Kinga, you can see how these clouds are rolling in here,
and we saw when we were out on the trail,
this weather can turn on a dime.
This is where the bones were found.
This is where the backpack was found.
So if there's foul play,
we're going in there unannounced.
There's alto romero over there.
That's the village, right there.
♪♪
we are officially in the middle of nowhere.
♪♪
♪♪
there's alto romero over there.
Kelley: We're going in there unannounced.
This village is 14 hours by hike from boquete.
We are officially in the middle of nowhere.
♪♪
[ chickens clucking ]
philipps: So, j.J. And I just landed in alto romero.
This is the rural area where the girls' belongings
and bones were found,
and lot of questions have been raised
about who found them and what she might know
could've possibly happened to these girls.
So, we are hoping to be the first
to get those answers straight from the source.
♪♪
so much for the element of surprise, huh?
♪♪
we are off the map, butt we are highly visible
to everyone now.
♪♪
the girls, if they made it this far, go down this ravine
and make it all the way over here.
I think it's about a 14-hour walk.
It's a 14-hour walk from boquete.
And honestly, j.J., I don't think they made it here.
And if they did, they weren't alive when they got here.
♪♪
we're just gonna have to go over and talk to them.
You know? Yeah, yeah.
Okay. That's all we got.
♪♪
look at how remote we are out here.
♪♪
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philipps: I'm thinking that there are a lot of people here
who definitely lived here five years ago.
[ speaking spanish ]
kinga. J.J.
♪♪
the body language isn't welcoming.
It's not hostile, but it's not warm.
They're definitely cautious right now.
-In the green? -Yeah.
Oh, that's her.
Philipps: So, the woman in the bright green dress over there,
that's the woman who found the backpack.
And to the left, in a black shirt, is her husband.
And they're, right now, keeping us at bay
until the entire village has a conference
and decides what she's gonna tell us.
I don't know.
To me, it's a little interesting.
♪♪
we would be very grateful to speak to her,
because we've heard so many different things.
We would love to hear it from her directly.
[ speaking spanish ]
♪♪
[ speaking spanish ]
interpreter: He says, you know, that a lot of time has passed
since this happened,
and we really are not keen to reliving, you know, the...
What happened back then.
One of the things that they have been
really resentful about was the fact that,
at one point when this first started,
there was an offering for a $30,000 reward
to be found dead or alive, you know?
And they are the only ones who found evidence,
and nothing has been paid to them -- hasn't happened.
So they're still very suspicious of anyone coming
and wanting to tell them anything,
because when there was an offering,
it didn't come through,
and they were the ones who found it.
Philipps: It makes me mad for them.
They actually were victims in this, as well.
So, are they willing to have a sit-down
to clear up the confusion?
[ speaking spanish ]
[ speaking spanish ]
♪♪
[ speaking spanish ]
-yes? -Yes.
-Yes. -Mm-hmm.
♪♪
kelley: That wasn't going very well for a while.
But it's amazing -- they're gonna talk to us.
They want to set the story straight.
I mean, I think even they understand
that there are so many rumors swirling around this case now.
And like he said, this has caused his village
a lot of grief.
I'm glad that they agreed to tell their side of the story.
So, irma, thank you for speaking to us.
[ interpreter speaking spanish ]
can you tell us, with as much detail as possible,
the day you found the backpack,
how you found it, the condition it was in.
[ speaking spanish ]
it had been that him and -- my husband and I
had walked down to the river.
I was going to wash clothes and bathe myself.
And when I approached the edge of the river,
I saw what looked like a backpack,
you know, from the distance,
and trapped in between the rocks on the edge of the river.
What happened when you turned the backpack in
to the authorities?
[ speaking spanish ]
when he -- when she handed it over to him,
he called a nearby cattle rancher
and informed him what he had found.
He called the border police.
So he handed the backpack directly over to the police?
Interpreter: Yeah, he did.
So, these are the photos that we have.
Okay, so, this is the river.
Yes? You saw these?
[ speaking spanish ]
she says that's up on pianista, on the other side.
On the other side of where? Of the divide.
He says it's on that side -- it's not on their side.
He's saying that that is on the boquete side
of the continental divide.
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hold -- I just want to get this super clear.
This photo is not taken on this side of the divide.
[ speaking spanish ]
philipps: The official story is that the girls hiked
the pianista trail to the continental divide
and then continued on to the serpent trail
and then died at the monkey bridge.
But luis knows these trails better than anyone,
and he says without a doubt that this photo was taken
hours after the girls reached the continental divide
and shows them hiking on the pianista trail
back towards boquete,
and that that means that they would have
never even gone on the serpent trail.
They reach the continental divide and then turn back.
Kelley: So, how did their stuff get in the river
if the girls never made it there?
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[ horns honking, indistinct conversations ]
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kinga and I have been pushing everyone in boquete for answers.
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but we're getting shut down at every turn.
No.
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[ camera beeps ]
big news. So, we got our big break today.
I got an anonymous phone call from a man who said
he is willing to speak to us, on camera even.
We just have to hide his face and his voice.
So we are, of course, more than willing to do that
and on our way to speak to him right now.
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-hi. -Hola.
Philipps: Thank you for joining us.
So, we're very grateful that you're here
because we have really struggled to find someone
who actually worked with these bones,
and you actually physically worked with the bone fragments.
Is that correct?
That's correct.
I'm an expert in the study of human remains.
What was your level of involvement in the case
of lisanne froon and kris kremers?
I figure out the bones were fragments
of the right rib and left pelvis,
the tibia, femur, and the right foot.
So, do the fragments of bone seem consistent
with these bodies being broken up by a river?
No, the state of the remains do not indicate
that the victims fell in the river.
When a human falls into a turbulent body of water,
several breaks immediately occur,
especially in the pelvis, the cranium, and the long bones.
And you didn't observe that in the remains.
No.
The official panamanian theory
that these girls fell from a bridge
is really nothing more than a hypothesis,
because that actually can't be proven
with the condition of the bones.
That's correct.
In my opinion, there's a murderer still out there.
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philipps: The official panamanian theory
that these girls fell from a bridge
is really nothing more than a hypothesis,
because that actually can't be proven
with the condition of the bones.
Man: That's correct.
In my opinion, there's a murderer still out there.
This information is based on my experience living in mexico.
What do you think happened?
When I worked in mexico, part of my job involved closing down
several labs associated with organ trafficking.
I have reason to believe these girls were drained,
then later their bodies were dismembered and disposed of.
Wow. Wow.
In a place like boquete, where you have incredible tourism,
it's at the advantage of the panamanian government
and everybody here to keep that quiet.
That's correct.
Wow.
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so?
[ sighs] alright, well, we have looked at
about everything I think we can with this case.
This reminds me, more than any other story,
that it is so easy to speculate from afar.
I don't think that they were alone out there for 11 days.
I think somebody ran into them.
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I, unfortunately, think that that person was trying
to take advantage of these two young women that were out there
and kills them.
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the key element for me is those phone records, right?
Because if you were lost out there,
if you were trying to get help, if you were injured,
you were scared, you were sad, you are gonna keep trying.
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the photo missing, for me,
is one of the biggest clues in this case
509 is gone.
Cameras don't make that kind of mistake,
especially around such a pivotal photo
between the happy and the nightmare.
So I think that that photo was deleted,
maybe because they saw who was coming after them.
Two months later, there was the attention of the world
put on this place, and everybody wants to know what happened.
We might never know what happened to these two girls,
but at the end of the day, this case
is only five years old. There are still people around,
and probably more than one of them who know what happened.
I think this case could potentially still be solved.
I think if you have additional information on this case,
don't reach out to the panamanian government.
The family doesn't want to hear about this anymore.
Find kinga or myself on social media,
because this story is completely unsolved,
and I don't think the panamanian story
of them dying out there in the wild
holds any water.
You know, I think, unfortunately,
this is a multilayered story,
and I think it was the perfect storm of tragedy.
I do think there was foul play involved, and in the end,
that's how they lost their lives.
Alright. We don't always agree.
On this tragic story, we do.
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