In 1991, a Montana man and his beloved dog failed to return from a 4-day hike searching for shed elk antlers in Yellowstone National Park. Questions surrounding what happened to them range from accident to animal attack to murder and the truth of what really happened to Daniel Campbell remains hidden even three decades later.
Daniel Campbell and Freckles:
Daniel Campbell Poster
National Park Service FOIA Memo
Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park Map
Episode Source Material
- NPS info on Yellowstone National Park
- Hellroaring Trail Head info on NPS
- Dan’s supposed route from Hellroaring to Jardine
- Montana DOJ Listing
- Missing NPF
- NamUs
- Listed on NPS cold case site
- Article on how many people have disappeared in Yellowstone
- General article about people missing in national parks – Dan is mentioned
- Death in Yellowstone book
- The Charley Project: Daniel Lynn Campbell.
- The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT): Park rangers search for missing hiker, by Michael Milstein.
- Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, WY): No clues of man missing in Yellowstone, by Associated Press.
- Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, WY): Snowstorm hampers Yellowstone search, by Associated Press.
- The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT): Ranger search fails to find missing man, by Associated Press.
- Casper Star-Tribune (Casper, WY): Weather hinders search for missing Yellowstone hiker, by Associated Press.
- The Montana Standard (Butte, MT): Missing hiker’s brothers believe he’s still in park, by Associated Press.
- The Jackson Hole Guide (Jackson, WY): Park scales down search for missing Montana man.
- The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT): Hiker’s camps found, by Associated Press.
- The Independent-Record (Helena, MT): Family not happy with search for missing man, by Ken Pekoc.
- The Montana Standard (Butte, MT): Man’s disappearance to be probed, by Associated Press.
- The Montana Standard (Butte, MT): Many lost in Yellowstone Park over the years, by Scott McMillion.
- Outside Magazine: Law Enforcement: Drop that Rack, or I’ll Vaporize You, by Todd Wilkinson.
- Bozeman Daily Chronicle (Bozeman, MT): Family sues former Park County sheriff over missing brother, by Scott McMillion.
- National Park Service: Response to Freedom of Information (FOIA) Request NPS-2018-00871, United States Department of the Interior.
- NBC Montana: Officials discuss missing persons cases in Montana national parks, by Madison Doner.
- Article on elk antler hunting and profitability
- More info on hunting shed antlers/selling them
- Nat Geo article on illegal antler hunting