Nevermore harold schechter6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() On the second swipe with the hoe shouting was heard, the first bones had been found. Byrne Smith was called in with his backhoe and the digging began. Perk Vickers was sure this was the burial site but Joel Swank, another Lake City old timer, wasn’t so sure. The grave site was supposedly located on Vickers Ranch just outside Lake City. ![]() James Starrs, forensic scientist and Professor of Law at George Washington University, decided to come to Lake City and exhume the bodies to try to determine exactly what happened on that cold winter night. Randolph reported the finding and, after being examined by the Hinsdale County Coroner, the skeletons were buried in a shallow grave near where they died. ![]() ![]() "The bodies were left at the campsite however, the following August the remains were discovered by Harper’s Weekly Magazine Artist John Randolph on a bank above the Lake Fork of the Gunnison, just up from Lake City. I mean seriously, the man is buried somewhere close to where I live apparently, how can I not be curious. ![]()
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