Clean Feet

In the evening hours of January 12, 2016, 18-year-old Dylan Parker was attending a party in his hometown of Osbourne, Idaho.

Towards the end of the night, Dylan decided he wanted to leave the party, but it was snowing, and cold outside so he called his mom to ask if she could pick him up at the gas station just down the road from the house he was at.

His mother would say it was obvious that Dylan had been drinking because he was slurring his words, but at the time even though she was upset about it because he was underage, she thought you know what, it's cold, it's snowing, I just want to get my kid home, safe and we'll deal with this tomorrow, so she agreed to pick him up.

She hopped into the car and began driving into this gas station, and as she was driving she gets another call from her son, this time he sounded panicked and scared, and he's asking his mom "Where are you mom?" and she's telling him, "I'm going to be there in a minute, I'm just down the road, calm down, I'll be there in a minute" and then he hung up. When she got to the gas station, he wasn't there, when she tried calling him back, his phone was off. She got out of the car, and went into the gas station and asked if they'd seen her son, and they said that they hadn't, so she got back in the car, and she drove around for about 30 minutes yelling for her son, but there was no sign of him, she still couldn't get in touch with him, his phone was still off, and she just had this bad feeling that something had happened to him so she called the police.

The police conducted a thorough search that started with the house that Dylan had been at for this party, they interviewed the people who were there, and everybody said "Dylan seemed fine, and he just left", but as they looked around town, they just could not find any sign of him.

10 days later, Dylan's body was found in an area nobody was searching he was found by accident by two people who crashed their ATVs in the middle of the night, and then went back in the daytime to retrieve their ATVs, and that's when they found Dylan's body.

He was located outside of town, high up a hill in a dense forest, which he would've had to walk in the opposite direction of the gas station. Toxicology reports showed Dylan had been under the influence of alcohol, but this was his hometown, he certainly knew where the gas station was, and he would've known he was walking the completely wrong way, especially when you consider walking towards the gas station was like walking towards the center of town,

On the day Dylan went missing, there was a lot of snow on the ground, which meant people would've made tracks, and from the time Dylan went missing until he was found, it didn't snow, and the temperature did not heat up enough to melt the snow. So in theory, any tracks Dylan would have made, would still be there when he was found.

But where Dylan was found, there were no tracks anywhere near him, no footprints, no tire tracks, nothing. It was as if someone had dropped him out of the sky. His pants and boots are missing, and they expected that his socks would be ripped up, but surprisingly, his feet and socks are clean like nothing had ever happened.

While the police determined Dylan's cause of death to be hypothermia, the deputy coroner David Roos was convinced there was something off about this case. After local authorities came out and said that Dylan's death was an accident, David became very vocal in the media saying that he disagreed, and thought Dylan had been attacked.

But the county never reinvestigated Dylan's case, and in fact, they went on to fire David Roos the coroner, saying he was no longer qualified to do the job. David says they fired him to keep him quiet. As a result, we may never know the truth about what happened to Dylan

And no other evidence was found and remains a mystery to this day.