mostly harmless hiker post mortem

This fb groups, Reddit’s, articles are only invading his privacy. But it’s a “happy” without feelings that lets you stay alive. Very well said. No offense meant but to me your theory is not as likely as some of the others for many reasons. Investigators from the Collier County sheriff’s department catalogued the man’s belongings. I wonder about how the coroner minimized the scar in his report, when those who saw it said it was clearly visible, and another commenter pointed out that if he had been injured to the point of needing blood transfusions there should have been some kind of evidence of past scaring internally as well. So many people are talking and inquiring about him. “We had no idea what happened to him,” Gary Hoffman, the building’s owner, told me. but multiple independent sources identifying photographs as the same individual they collectively knew seems highly reliable and worthy of publication. She is a trail angel- someone who helps thru-hikers by offering them showers and meals, or anything else they can for hikers. I just don’t buy that Mostly Harmless did this to himself intentionally. fabrication or controversy seems unlikely wrt to MH’s identity. it’s been put forth that MH suffered abuse in childhood. His family has not responded to requests for comment. Each craft carried a gold LP that contained data for locating Earth plus information about life on Earth, etc. You can shut down a whole part of your brain to protect yourself. I used to “feel” so good. He started hiking to avoid getting caught sleeping in the park (although he had an apartment). A post-mortem toxicology analysis on three specimens belonging to Nora (liver, peritoneal fluid and psoas muscle), did not show any trace of common drugs or poisons, according to the Department of Chemistry Malaysia Toxicology Division chemist Suhana Ismail. Or he could have been looking into the sun and squinting. I believe that he truly found his place and his people on the Appalachian trail. so it seems plausible that your daughter could have or could be facing challenges of her own. I’ll always remember the strange looks we got leaving the office together to get lunch and countless hours of epic online adventures we shared. It’s hard sometimes to separate the two and I get close. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. It suddenly “appears” as an option. The man was five feet, eight inches tall and “markedly cachectic,” meaning his muscle had all but wasted away. He called one of his friends a few months before he started hiking, he visited his sister between the AT and Florida trail. i celebrate that! It bothers me seeing people buy into that bullshit & not see that it went way beyond “respecting the family. I think he has made his decision to die at this point. Thank you for the update and a very written part 2. May he rest in peace! That is to say it teaches what is believed to be the form of meditation taught by Siddhartha Gotama. we’ll never know for sure. i’ve also flown airplanes professionally, owned and operated a new car dealership, invested in commercial real estate, managed stock portfolios, a wide range of activities. I remember the actual moment I said “I can’t keep crying like this from this man hitting me, I need this to stop”. Vance was schizoaffective a combination of schizophrenia and manic depression/bipolar. save one possible youtube vid, the only outrageous conduct i’ve observed first-hand is people making ill-informed or unsubstantiated allegations against or about people they don’t even know, much less those entities’ motivations. I had shock therapy at age 18. Why not just jump off a bridge if you want to end it all ?? For some hikers, the bad stuff has gone away when you reach your personal journey’s end, and stays away; for others its still there, ready to reemerge when you stop hiking. Parents? You don’t know what he wanted anymore than anyone else did. Where is now? perhaps you have noticed i’ve been railing against all the same hypocrisy rather loudly and forcefully . Harmless wrote out nutritional formulas for a line of trail wafers and plans for a role-playing game with descriptions of miners, warriors, and a “nanite guild.” The notebooks reference Screeps, a computer game for programmers in which players control their “colony” by writing JavaScript A coder who reviewed the notebook said it was “very coherent and lucid,” not the sign of a deteriorating mind. That is not depression….. For those who have real depression let me just say I am sorry and I seriously have no clue what that feels like. The whole introvert lifestyle and computer fascination. so in this case i’d give MH a courage merit badge. They also talked about Sci-Fi, specifically Doctor Who. Not unlike the monks who self-mummify through meditation – a.k.a. i’m not looking to be a simp as the young kids say, but i’ve really enjoyed your writing and i believe you’ve acted perfectly ethically and responsibly as both a participant and a journalist. He didn’t sneak into groups or talk to MH’s acquaintances under some cloak of secrecy, at least not that I’m aware of. Launched in 2018, Othram is a relatively new lab whose goal has been to partner with law enforcement agencies to solve cold case crimes and unidentified persons cases. Randall said Rodriguez often came to his house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Dear Delilah, His family, friends & ex’s all suffered with him in one way or another. Your email address will not be published. In Brooklyn, Hoffman didn’t recall seeing a phone among Rodriguez’s belongings. i love a good scam. Both parks are less than fifty miles north of Brooklyn and popular with New York City residents. I was complaining to her that they made no difference at all. She was a black woman in her late sixties, he a white man she pegged to be about forty. however, irrespective of how well you knew someone, and what your experience may have been, to state in a public forum that a dead person abused your loved one is a pretty serious allegation to make. The hiker said that he was looking thin, but nowhere near 83 pounds. obviously some of it can be, or can certainly become so. if i’out’ this well-spoken ‘J’ character as the author (strong hunch), what level of backlash should i expect? But you, I’m not sure what makes you obsess. Sometimes I imagine him falling through space, drifting like dust from dead stars in the vast nowhere above us. They fist-bumped and she watched him walk off in the rain, assuming they would cross paths again. of course there’s a bit of speculation. First a fog, then ephemeral form, then living flesh. As of July 22, 2020, the identity of Mostly Harmless is still unknown. no dental work in this instance, it seems imperfect vance was blessed w perfect teeth and likely a commitment to dental hygiene. And then he would have needed to get back to being around people to be safe once the girls failed, he took the loner route, basically his brain told him that this was all too much, to go find a place away from the world and hide (which is what my brain tells me daily), his depression won. Did I read somewhere, that he & a friend, took a class on meditation! 1. I don’t think it is obvious he starved himself to death. why? prayers for an emotional and joyous reunification. But wow how inconsiderate is that to leave your entire apt full of stuff behind for others to sort, store and clean up ? For that I refer you to another Hindu yogi’s short video although this one is about his death. diane t, based on the sum of your posts in this forum, i’m unsure of your objectivity, and it seems difficult to fairly assess your credibility when making the serious allegation that vance abused your daughter. “The best way to understand yourself in the real world,” he said, “is to remove yourself from it, so you can look back in.”. A former girlfriend said she is “100 percent sure” Harmless is Rodriguez. Some online posts suggest he started from Bear Mountain State Park in New York, around April 2017. Its not too late to share light, and love and let your friends and family know that you are ok and that you love them. I truly hope that he was able to find peace. I think the saddest thing ( in this life ) is that you could be dead and missed by no one. His trail name was similar to online user names, a world he knew so well, a place where no one cared about your real name. A smart, adventurous guy (he has a PhD and has run 100+ mile races locally and around the world), he is missed by all of us. I’ve got my “safety net” in place. i salute your patience in watching the entire vid. were there two sides to the story? I am grateful to have the information that Jason has provided, but it seems that there are still a lot of unanswered questions…. most of MH’s younger self pictures seem more like his strange twin brother – the candle burning depressed goth sabbath playing future serial killer. Maybe then we’ll know how he could have such a profound impact on so many people, without ever revealing his identity. Without intervention they get septic and die. Its such an elegant magazine from what I’ve seen online. I learned about Mostly Harmless in February 2019, when the Collier County sheriff’s department released Sworn Statement, its three-part podcast about the case. Despite the identification, some mysteries surrounding the case have deepened. Media in Florida and New York picked up the story in 2018, but it gained the most traction on Facebook, Reddit, and Websleuths, an online forum dedicated to unsolved cases. That does sound like symptoms of a gastric disturbance. giardiasis? Investigators have ruled out dozens of missing persons cases, many sent by amateur sleuths whose confirmation bias helps them disregard clear discrepancies, such as eye color and height. and clearly there should be zero tolerance for physical abuse. He said he was legally required to hold Rodriguez’s belongings for 30 days but kept them for about five months instead. What does Vaejor mean/refer to? Does anyone know how he now exists as a skeleton waiting to be claimed in an office? This seems like that to me. Editor’s note: In Adventure Journal 17, summer 2020, we published a story called “The Ghost in the Tent,” by journalist Jason Nark, who had been trying to decipher the mystery of a man known only by his trail name, Mostly Harmless, whose emaciated body was found in a tent by day hikers in Florida. Debbie, I get that things heal themselves – but without a single trace to show what was repaired ? I was trapped to the end not only for the very same unstoppable curiosity that bit the writer but for the quality of the writing… The rent came from the trustee every month. Thank you for some fantastic journalism and for finding out the truth to Mostly Harmless. He could have asked for help if sick. Rip Vance and hope your trail was to a peaceful place. A woman Rodriguez once lived with in that Brooklyn apartment said my efforts to identify Mostly Harmless were “misguided.”. The police/sheriffs office did a poor job handling this mans ending. Sometimes I take notes so I can follow. Sad story, I’m sure he is at peace now. I do hope he is at peace, and his family recovers from this news. What makes you come to that conclusion? sadly, the abused can perpetuate abuse in later years. Hi Jason, those of us who live in the “depression world” know why Vance Rodriguez died. seems to be more of a holier-than-thou self-elevating proclamation than any kind of demonstrable reality. It only matters to those alive and I think it does matter, quite a bit – to his sister and his friends if no one else. how deep into true abuse territory did either’s actions devolve? I see him as the ideal of William Hazlitt’s 1821 essay “On Living to One’s Self.”, “He reads the clouds, he looks at the stars, he watches the return of the seasons, the falling leaves of autumn, the perfumed breath of spring, starts with delight at the note of the thrush in a copse near him, sits by the fire, listens to the moaning of the wind, pores upon a book, or discourses the freezing hours away, or melts down hours to minutes in pleasing thought. it all made sense, and it all compiled once correct. She described Rodriguez as “kind, quiet and intelligent” but believes his “quiet and reclusive” nature contributed to him going so long without being identified. He found in her the euphoria he needed to get up each morning and be “happy” that 100 miles. MH’s name was everywhere really quick. After that I went into her house every day to say good bye – face to face – to her. As far as I can tell he had no plan. He may have had a mental breakdown. so little first-hand knowledge or factual reasoning behind it. In 2019, Kristine Gill’s podcast, Sworn Statement, covered the story over three episodes. He eventually decided to hike to the Florida Keys. If one of these animals bites or scratches you or one of your pets, it is best to get that animal tested. I’m so happy he has his name back. I did my best to reconstruct his journey. Teasley said they have not liked or comment on any of the hundreds of posts or photos. He thru-hiked from New York to Florida. That is just speculation…. Was he buried for awhile? pretty country clubby? this was when the very first version of Windows (cough – apple rip-off) was still brand-new. i don’t know if a credible diagnosis of acute mental illness has ever been made, or who may have seen it, if it exists or once did. RIP – Mostly Harmless, Denim, Vance. God forbid that I am scolded for having these thoughts, but deep down inside I know you all have them but for whatever reason most want to be high and mighty and not admit to them. Still, my mother could not bring herself to throw it all away. i know i have them in my life. He had no plan – other than not wanting to get caught camping in the park Illegally . He told a hiker in Florida that he’d skipped the Alabama Roadwalk section of the trail, choosing to ride to the beginning of the Florida Trail in Pensacola with “some girls.” He told this man, like many others, that he intended to end his trip in Key West. When you are done with this world you have nothing to loose. the total control. Yes it is in a case where we are not sure if its him in the tent but by now we have seen friends post about him, we have seen family members post about how troubled he was, we have seen more than enough pictures to assure us that Mostly Harmless is Vance. The image will first show trauma to the victim and is repaired digitally or by applying paints directly to the photograph, covering the injured area making the features recognizable. You want people to stop speculating but you are doing it yourself. How did he go from his condition at death to a skeleton while in the custody of the ME or coroner’s office? It barely lets me get out of bed most days unless I have somewhere I have to be. Glad you’re still here. am i wrong? The key is, and everyone in the depressed world knows this…you NEVER go anywhere alone for long periods of time. We fell out of touch when I changed jobs, left the country, and stopped playing video games for a time. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MASGVP1nYgg, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=obxq59tF_GQ. thank you for your time. Nature has ways of helping people that no amount of drugs can. i hope for general consensus. estrangement is not a black or white issue. “We were just hiking,” she said. let’s give all parties the benefit of the doubt before we’re drawn to where we might hesitate to go. No way could anyone just walk away in the middle of living life–no one in good physical health, with a career, a degree and especially not the type of person who had the determination to hike nearly the entire eastern coast of the US. I believe all this point to bad stuff happening in his childhood, abuse of some kind. Collier County should link to this! Marie believes Rodriguez saw the trail as another game, the distance between shelters or hostels his daily missions. . My brother was run over by two cars and still identified by my father as his son. No one reported seeing him in Tennessee or North Carolina and only a few people remember him on the Pinto Trail in Alabama. The big questions were, how did he starve to death in his tent and who was he? I may not of loved the timing of the article but I have enough sense to know that a story was going to come out & I for one preferred to see Nark be the one to write it. The program’s director, B.J. Authorities did not consider that the campers cause of death was suspicious. Thank you thank you thank you for saying exactly my thoughts about this whole affair!!!! He was in jeans and had no equipment. Fascinating and tragic all at the same time. I can only remember, and not always, what I did 10 minutes ago. he looks so haunted to me in the older pics, I agree TOWIRED❣️❣️ It makes the most sense to me and this just submitted as a suggestion—maybe he found enlightenment and simply chose to stay in the presence of the divine energy that is the source of everything, in western culture we call it God. “I regret that he passed alone out there,” Tuggy wrote to me, “but I hope he is at peace.”. just curious. He talked about ordering cereal in bulk and gave advice to a user who wasn’t feeling well and had lost his voice. i have no idea if vance chose death or if death found vance. He did walk away. I really enjoyed this article. “I’m mostly harmless (for now),” he wrote. i’m wondering about your thoughts on the matter,? That reminds me of when I worked in the office – before COVID 19 . There were two notebooks full of computer code and almost four thousand dollars in cash in a plastic baggie. Eerily similar to Chris McCandless aka Alexander Super Tramp of Into the Wild. While friends said Rodriguez liked to travel and go for walks, none recalled him ever talking about long-distance hiking. Life’s journey come from past experiences and how one learns to process the present for the future undetermined but the past unwavering, Love can make the difference…. it paid well. It can even happen when you’re awake. Kelly Fairbanks, 47, was the first person to match the composite sketch to a hiker she had met in Florida on January 24, 2018. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know.”. The idea of a ‘great escape’ to solve the ultimate challenge of finding himself makes perfect sense for his character. I am sure they spilled the beans, why haven’t we seen any professionalism by the police or the groups to get ahead the story and control the narrative by saying, “yes MH has been found, he has a name and we believe his name is this…but we ask you to leave the friends and family alone and give them space to griev” he was Id’d right before Christmas. Around midnight on December 24th, the same day this was posted, a good friend of mine disappeared. if I wanted a lecture, I’d get married . Beautifully written story! i don’t feel it disrespectful to request that you conference with your daughter and as objectively as possible assess all sides and all roles in the conflicts and come to your own independent conclusions as to the merits of providing further clarity to the very serious abuse allegation against the departed vance. independent sources verified vance’s identity directly to the author if i’m not mistaken. To go through the trail blind was naive, I thought that was a bad decision. Police were able to confirm that he had also used the alias “Ben Bilemy” to register at several hostels whilst hiking. which you have made more than once. https://soundcloud.com/ccso-media-relations. Tisdale told me Rodriguez was “wicked smart” and worked as the company’s senior architect and developer for about three years. Interviews with former friends like Randall and co-workers from Louisiana paint a picture of Rodriguez as an intelligent and troubled man who often struggled with personal relationships, particularly with his family. I am ashamed of the police, the groups admins, and Othram. i raise this only as a possibility, i do not suggest it to be so. I always choose different people to call. That’s not unusual in the thru-hiking community, said Warren Doyle, who has hiked the AT nine times and helps other hikers prepare for the “philosophical and psychological” aspects of the trail. Mostly Harmless was found deceased in his tent by Nichalaus Horton and Logan Buehl, at Noble’s Camp in Big Cypress National Preserve. I had the same thought about the stories being comparable but couldn’t remember the name…. He was staying at Woodchuck’s Hostel and was there for two days because a hurricane was making it’s way to the trail. He told Gormley he was headed toward Key West with a 50-pound pack on his back in Florida's mounting heat, and the Trail Angel became concerned. Rodriguez during his Shopper’s Choice days. Vance I believe became dehydrated and toxic within and could not make a difference to save his life. He was enjoying himself, making friends among the way having good experiences. no joke. That’s Vance… holy shit that’s Vance. Haha! His wife said he went for a cup of coffee at Starbucks and never came back. Teasley also built a website about the case, including a detailed timeline of every recorded stop Mostly Harmless made. People have different stories. The urge is so ingrained that they’ll pile wood atop a speaker if it sounds like a stream. VR was just like any other person on this planet- perfectly & profoundly f*cked up. be kind brother. Like Vance, I suffered from major depressive episodes beginning in my early teens, treated people like crap and was only interested in computing and building computers. Rodriguez’s parents are alive, along with his twin sister and older brother. We all (coma sleep or not) impose burdens of our families and friends and society – it’s life and we all collectively take care of each other – all of which is to say that it’s kind of not awesome that your family calls your sleeping (coma sleep) – I’m likely over reading into the comment, but it read to me as a pejorative description your family uses to coat over what was/is a painful injury for you. There a no Buddhist videos I could find explaining this. I was touched by so may kind hearted people. how long a stint? There was nothing significant in the report, but it seemed that the male had previous surgery at some point. God love her ! From what Vance’s friends said, and how he died, it seems that he just decided to stop functioning, go into his own coma-sleep. Three other friends of Rodriguez also confirmed to Adventure Journal that the hiker in the photos is the man they knew as Vance Rodriguez. he may have been a kitten-drowning serial killer for all i know. I feel very sad for his many years of suffering with no help. Sometimes intubation is required because the muscles are too weak to breathe. She said that he told her he had been staying with his sister in Sarasota or Ft. Meyers FL area before starting the FT. She said he told her about working in the tech field. if they’d been googling with enough knowledge to find this article they’d certainly have recognized his pictures earlier. please return for an update, very hopefully with good news. I pulled the fire alarm. Is family going to lay him to rest? Sadly, I won’t remember I wrote this in about a day or even necessarily in an hour. It’s what you’ve been taught before the shut down and you know you’re supposed to follow it. Below is our original story (“Part 1”), the first of our print stories we’ve put online, followed by Nark’s updated reporting (“Part 2”) on how he found Rodriguez—and who this mystery man was. 3. See what neeeters (ajhorner) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. Photo with bunny ears includes former girlfriend Tuggy and dates to 2007. little requirement for extroversion. If you miss prison so much you know how to get back. Could not stop reading. He looks thin, his beard wild, but nowhere near eighty-three pounds. His reasons for dying alone of starvation in the Florida Everglades will be buried with him. Abuse is real. He met dozens along the way. Who was Ben Bilemy/Mostly Harmless/Denim? It is a viable treatment when medication fails. I was reported missing by my mother once when I wasn’t even missing. I obtained the forty pages of notebooks from Collier County through the Freedom of Information Act. Either way, Mostly harmless, you are going home, you found a home on the trail and you did the trail proud and I am sorry you had some demons, whether you meant to leave this world, you will be missed by all of those who met you and knew you. Last week, as Rodriguez’s name began to circulate online, a woman who used to work with him posted to Teasley’s Facebook group. Photo of a hiker who went by trail names "Denim" and "Mostly Harmless." Also don’t hand me anything and let me put it down, I’ll forget you gave it to me. but pretty big contrast spiritually between the ‘before’ and ‘after’s …, at least it seems. After reaching my late 30s, I finally found medication that alleviated the depression. In the process, its name became truncated to V’Ger. He didn’t either. any good deals on the thumb drives? “Even after we parted ways, and even today, I still love him very much,” Tuggy wrote. He had run out of trail. His friends have commented, family have joined groups. RIP, MH. obviously the same guy physically. shoulda guessed you’re an anti-social tech guy too! I have an very rare autoimmune muscle wasting disease called inflammatory myopathy (aka polymyositis). c’mon man. we have a small number of people who actually knew vance joining in here, which of course we should welcome and celebrate. Of course I don’t believe I’ve ever met anyone who would be so heartless that they’d actually want the people that cared about them in their life to never know what happened to them. those proclaimers so clearly above the rest of us unwashed gossiping simple-minded serfs …. Bring mental illness out of solving challenging problems beard wild, but nowhere near eighty-three pounds for 30 but..., yes, but anyone can sympathize not know what i see of. Apparently, his eyes spoke of sadness and dark times connection ” with a mechanism. 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