'Missing 411: The Hunted'
Paulides's second film (2019), about experienced hunters who vanished in the field, a theme of his 2016 book 'Hunters'.
2019 CE · 45.20, -107.90 · status: claim
The account
The film argues that skilled, armed and well-equipped hunters sometimes disappear in circumstances their experience should have prevented. Cases of this kind include the Crow hunter Robert Springfield, who vanished in the Bighorn Mountains in 2004 and whose remains were found a year later. Search professionals answer that hunters leave trails, travel alone at dusk, push into rough ground after game and are exposed to falls, heart attacks, weather and firearm accidents, which explains why they figure in search statistics.
The sceptical view
Hunters are a recognised category in lost-person research, with their own typical distances and behaviours; their presence in a list says nothing unusual.
Connections in the atlas
- Robert 'Bugsy' Springfield, Bighorn Mountains
- 'Missing 411' documentary film
- Robert Koester, 'Lost Person Behavior'
- 'Missing 411' and Yosemite