🎧 Episode 20: The Final Trace of Tyler Christensen
Not all disappearances are accidental.
🗓️ April 19, 2016 — 16-year-old Tyler Christensen walked out of his family’s home in Washington and vanished into the night. No phone. No note. Just the clothes on his back.
Eight days later, a driver came forward: he’d picked up a teenage hitchhiker—one who looked exactly like Tyler—who said he was headed to Olympic National Forest.
Weeks later, searchers found a backpack near the edge of the High Steel Bridge—a 420-foot drop into the gorge below. Inside? Sweatpants. Rations. Emergency blankets.
But no Tyler.
Despite search dogs, helicopters, and ground teams combing the forest, no trace of him was ever found.
This episode follows the eerie clues, the questions left behind, and the devastating aftermath—including a second heartbreaking loss in the family. Was Tyler trying to escape, meet someone, or leave a breadcrumb trail no one was meant to follow?
Sources & Readings:
Vanished: The Tyler Christensen Story – Synova Ink synovaink.com
No sign of missing Mukilteo teen three years after he disappeared – FOX 13 Seattle FOX 13 Seattle
The Disappearance of Tyler Christensen – The Disappeared Blog Disappeared
Tyler Joel Christensen – The Charley Project The Charley Project