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Unsolved

Death of Jaryd Atadero

Year
2002
Where
Colorado
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

Jaryd J. Atadero was a three-year-old American boy who went missing on October 2, 1999, while hiking with a Christian social group on Big South Trail, a part of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. Two businessmen located items of clothing belonging to Atadero during a hiking trip on June 4, 2003; search and rescue personnel recovered his partial remains on June 14. Atadero's disappearance and…

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