On the night of April 3, 2000, Jeremy Bechtel, 17, phoned his father from a party and promised to sleep there and asked for a ride the following morning. But when his father went to pick him up, Jeremy was gone—so was his friend Erin.
Friends described Jeremy and Erin leaving together in Erin’s car the previous evening and never returning. Speculation abounded over the years as to what had occurred. Some thought they had eloped to Florida, and others were sure it was drug-related. Someone even reported seeing them in the bed of a pickup with blood. Police pursued every lead, but none resulted in answers.
Over two decades later, a scuba-diving YouTuber who covers missing persons stories volunteered to assist. Within days, he located the teens’ vehicle submerged in a nearby river—solving at long last the decades-old enigma that had plagued their families and community.
