When a veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy vanished while exercising in a remote county park near Angeles National Forest, alarm bells went off right away. However, the investigation into the missing deputy’s disappearance has been anything but a straightforward task.
Jonathan Aujay (Photo Source) The Los Angeles Times
Jonathan Aujay (Photo Source) The Charley Project
Jon and his wife Debbie Aujay at their wedding (Photo Source) Los Angeles Magazine
Chloe Aujay, Bosco, and Jonathan Aujay (Photo Source) Los Angeles Magazine
Devil’s Punch Bowl Park Image (Source) LA County Park
Devil’s Punch Bowl Park Map (Source) Google Maps
Episode Source Material
- Valley of Shadows. Episodes 1- 8. By Betsy Shepherd and Hayley Fox. For Pushkin.
- Los Angeles Magazine: The Deputy Who Disappeared. By Claire Martin.
- The Los Angeles Times: Rescue Teams Searching for Hiker in Devil’s Punchbowl. By Claire Vitucci.
- Press Dispatch: Searches continue for off-duty lawman, 5-year-old boy. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Los Angeles Times: Search Continues for Man Missing in Forest. By Jose Cardenas via newspapers.com.
- Merced Sun-Star: Forest searched for missing deputy. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Daily Press: Deputy still missing in rugged Angeles National Forest. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Los Angeles Times: Officials Call Off 7-Day Search for Deputy. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Daily Press: Sighting was a case of mistaken identity; search abandoned again. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Oakland Tribune: Missing deputy’s dog dies. By staff via newspapers.com.
- The Los Angeles Times: Deputy’s Fate Still Unknown. By Richard Fausset via newspapers.com.
- The Charley Project: Jonathan Aujay.
- The Desert Sun: Attorney: Deputy a whistleblower. By staff via newspapers.com.
- Strange Outdoors: The weird disappearance of Deputy Jonathan Aujay at the Devil’s Punchbowl. By staff.
- Locations Unknown: Jonathan Aujay. By staff.
- Office of the Attorney General of California: Missing Person Jonathan Aujay.