Father and son disappeared without a trace on a family hike: After 23 years, a worker finds a shoe on a forest trail, and what was inside sends a chill down his spine

One Tuesday morning in September 2024, a trail maintenance crew working on the upper section of the Graymoor Ridge trail in the Kennet National Forest found a boot. It was a man's hiking boot, size 11, the leather darkened and hardened from years of pressure, moisture, and soil, and the lace was still tied in a double knot. The boot was protruding from the ground where a drainage cut had shifted after a season of weather and trail wear. And inside was what remained of a foot.