No reliable water source.
No long-term food supply.
No tools.
No evidence of a sustained camp.
Investigators soon realized the most frightening possibility.
Rachel had not spent three years in that cave.
Someone had put her there only shortly before she was discovered.
And the backpack she refused to surrender contained the first clues to where she and Madison had really been.
June 15, 2012
The morning Madison Blake and Rachel Bennett began their hike was already hot.
By 8:00 a.m., temperatures had reached approximately 85 degrees Fahrenheit.
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