Margaret Armbrust

Margaret traveled from California to Colorado with her husband in 1974. Shortly after, both Margaret and her husband went missing. Her husband's remains were identified in October 2020 to remains found in Colorado on Guenella Pass in Park county, CO in February 1974. Margaret has not been seen or heard from since.

Mitchell Hein

The date of disappearance is between January 1983 (when his parents last saw him in Jefferson County Colorado) and March 1983 (when a friend last saw him in Indio California) Mitchell moved out his parent's house in Golden Colorado in 1980. He traveled extensively over the next three years working odd jobs such as rebuilding boats, a car mechanic and work in the oil fields. He was known to have been in Houston Texas, Galveston Texas, Clinton Oklahoma, Neosho Missouri and Indio California. Mitch would send his parents postcards and would visit once a year during the Christmas holidays. In December 1982 Mitch came home to Colorado for a visit and abruptly left in January or February 1983 without saying goodbye to anyone. He was carrying his clothes and belongings in a black trash bag. According to a friend, Mitch showed up in Clinton Oklahoma and then in early March 1983 he hitched a ride with the friend's father to California. When they stopped for the night in Indio California Mitch left the hotel room and has not been seen or heard from since. Mitch may have been involved in drugs and was described by some friends as being anti-establishment. It was reported that Mitch had thrown 

Teresa Schmidt

Teresa Schmidt decided to go hiking on September 6, 2002. She is an experienced hiker and had visited the area before, but its physical features had been greatly changed by a forest fire and she may not have known her way around. She left Lost Valley Guest Ranch alone, carrying a backpack which contained a jacket and two bottles of water. Teresa Schmidt was last seen at about 300 p.m. on a trail leading to a rocky overlook east of the ranch. She was reported missing by her husband at 700 p.m. when she failed to return to the ranch, but search efforts did not begin until 200 a.m. the next day. Nearly seventy volunteer searchers, tracker dogs, and helicopters scoured the area for Schmidt for six days after she disappeared. Her husband spent several days searching by motorcycle. Search efforts were hampered by inclement weather and the only thing anyone located was two sets of Schmidt's footprints near Cheesman Overlook, one set on each side of the ridge.

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