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rodney letterman and his friend

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are walking on this trail and they're

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about a mile or two into their walk

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and i got this information from a police

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officer

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a deputy sheriff under under condition

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of anonymity

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so i think it's the real deal and he

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told me that

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rodney was having a asthma attack and he

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left his inhaler in a truck

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right he's 32 years old he's got asthma

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and it's acting up

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and he asks his friend he says hey man i

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screwed up i left my inhaler back in the

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truck could you run back and get it for

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me

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and friend says sure no sweat so his

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buddy runs back to the truck

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grabs the inhaler and is back within

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about 35 minutes or so

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gets back there's no rodney letterman

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all there is is his cell phone laying on

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the ground no

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dude i don't know about you man but my

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cell phone's either in my hand or in my

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pocket

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yep you know and uh and this is a grown

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man

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his buddy um

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and his friend uh the same age roughly

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calls the ranger station and says my

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buddy is just gone

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he says he was he was wheezing he's in

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no condition to be out walking around

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in this terrain because the terrain's

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rocky and and uh

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a lot of overgrowth and it's you know

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it's

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he was ill-equipped to be out there so

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they responded right away

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i mean a guy a guy on a quad drove up

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right away

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and got the story and got on a

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walkie-talkie and

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got there's a neighboring park on the

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other side of the road there's a road

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that divides the two parks

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on the west side is uh devil's dense

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state park which is in arkansas state

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park and on the right

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is the ozark national forest well they

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got they called the ozark national

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forest and got the federal guys federal

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park rangers involved

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and within like 24 hours they had 2500

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people

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searching for rodney letterman they had

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aircraft they had helicopters

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with forward-looking infrared radar

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looking for a heat signature

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from the from the arkansas air national

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guard uh flying all over the place

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and the official search lasted a week

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and found nothing oh and we are bro

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the family paid for trackers and people

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to come in

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uh and that that search went through

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october

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and um i published the book in march of

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2018

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and i said as of the writing of this

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book nothing's been found of rodney

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letterman

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if something changes i'll let you know

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something changed there's an update okay

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definitely an update

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let's go dude march 2019

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there's a young couple walking up the

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butterfield trail

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and the woman says

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looks to her left and says to her friend

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is that an albino turtle

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and her friend's like what what are you

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talking about and he looks over and they

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walk over

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and here's this log you know maybe eight

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foot long

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and it's laying parallel with the trail

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it's like part of the trail you know

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it's the part that keeps you from

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wandering off right

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so they got these logs like things and

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split rail fences and the like

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but here's this eight-foot log and right

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dead center of this log

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is this football shaped white object

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okay and a guy walks over and picks it

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up and looks at it and realizes

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it's a human bone and it's the skull cap

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of rodney letterman verified by the

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bartlesville oklahoma medical examiner

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what

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i read the story the

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first thing crossed my mind i think back

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to you know when i was a prosecutor and