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I thought I was pretty familiar with this case, but I did not know that
-Joe Schons, the guy who had a heart attack on the mountain road where their car was found, was an infamous liar and attention #####, and the police never believed the details of his story about seeing them on the mountain that night, which was apparently really inconsistent. Both the police and the families thought he was a suspect, rather than a reliable (or at least sincere) source of information.
-I'd only read about their being real sources regarding Gary being killed murdered and dumped in the resevoir on reddit, and I thought the poster made it up or was repeating an urban legend, but there's really alot to that story. Someone confessed to multiple members of Gary's family to having been an unwilling participant. He died of a heroin overdose a few days later, although he was reportedly not a known heroin user. The family had a theory as to who killed Gary. Then years later, a local minister who was a former prison inmate told his congregation that before he was saved he killed someone and threw their body off a bridge and that he "terrorized seven mentally disabled boys." The family heard about this and thought that he might be another suspect in Gary's killing, and only after that discoverd that the person they were hearing about was the same person they'd already thought was the killer.
There are challenges squaring the preacher-as-killer with Gary's shoes being in the cabin, but that could still be explained.
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