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Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America. It’s understood that people routinely get lost and some want to disappear, but this story is about the unusual. Nobody has ever studied the archives for similarities, traits and geographical clusters of missing people, until now.



A tip from a national park ranger led to this 4+ years and a 9000 hour investigative effort into understanding the stories behind people who have vanished. The book chronicles children, adults and the elderly who disappeared, sometimes in the presence of friends and relatives. As Search and Rescue personnel exhaust leads and places to search, relatives start to believe kidnappings and abductions have occurred. The belief by the relatives is not an isolated occurrence; it replicates itself time after time, case after case across North America.



The research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed and was a shocking find to researchers. Topography does play a part into the age of the victims and certain clusters have specific age and sex consistency that is baffling. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring in just the last few decades, clusters of missing people have been identified as far back as the 1800’s.



The manuscript for the research was extremely large so the story was split between two books, Missing 411 Western United States and Canada and Missing 411 Eastern United States. The Eastern version will be released in late March and will include a list of all missing people in each edition and a concluding chapter that draws both books together for conclusions.

Some of the issues that are discussed in each edition:

• The National Park Service attitude toward missing people

• How specific factors in certain cases replicate themselves in different clusters

• Exposing cases involving missing children that aren’t on any national database

• Unusual behavior by bloodhounds/canines involved in the search process

• How storms, berries, swamps, briar patches, boulder fields and victim disabilities play a role in the disappearance

• The strategies of Search and Rescue personnel need to change under specific circumstances

Case Summary:

National Park Personnel established that Chet was a "strong hiker" who went into the back country to photograph a lake he had been to many times. He was carrying a large camera and tripod in his effort to capture winter near Rainier.

It does not make sense that Chet got lost. He had been to this area many times and knew the area well. It also does not make sense that Chet was brought down by an illness, he was young and strong. He had to be in great shape to hike the region with a camera and gear weighing in excess of thirty five pounds.

When people are lost in the wild and start to become weak and tired, they start to drop items and leave bags behind, nothing of substantial value was found belonging to Chet. The fact that items were not found is not a good sign.

Bloodhounds and canines could not locate Chet.

Cadaver dogs could not locate Chet. The odor of a body as it disintegrates is something that travels for several miles, it's a very identifiable odor, this was not found.

The region around Mt. Rainier is where many people have vanished over the last century. I doubt that Chet E. Hanson will ever be located.