Missing 411 is a series of books written by David Paulides cataloging disappearances of people under highly unusual circumstances. His first book in the series is Missing 411 Western United States & Canada. Currently, seven books are in the Missing 411 series. The missing people cases in the books fall into a specific set of criteria that David Paulides has established.
According to David Paulides research, the biggest concentration of missing people under highly unusual circumstances is Yosemite National Park. Fortunately, I happen to live less than an hours drive from the Southgate of Yosemite along Highway 41. It is fortunate for me because I am going to visit 8 locations were people have gone missing. Just as David Paulides has his specific set of criteria for the cases he has researched, I also have my own criteria for the missing persons location I have chosen. The criteria is simple. People had to have vanished without a trace and have never been found.
List of the people and locations:
Stacey Anne Arras (07/17/81) Tenaya Lake area
James Arthur (07/28/08) Beasore Road, Iron lakes Reservoir
Timothy John Barnes (07/05/88) Murphy Creek Trail
Jeff Estes (05/24/76) Snow Creek Trail
Walter A. Gordon (07/20/54) Camp Curry (Glacier Point)
Emerson Holt (07/18/43) Merced Lake
Tom Opperman (08/08/1967) Tuolumne Meadows
Walter Reinhard (09/20/02) White Wolf Area
I am not sure what I am hoping to find, if anything, but I just want to go visit these places myself just to get more intimate with the highly unusual missing people incidence and their locations.
