On a clear and sunny Sunday afternoon of April 30, 1978, third-grader Christopher William
Vigil, an energetic nine year old went on a hike, as they often did.
with his mother and four year old brother up Grey Rock Mountain Trail in Colorado.
Grey Rock Mountain is located in the Poudre Canyon in Poudre Park, Colorado, off Highway
14 and while Chris and his family loved to explore the outdoors, they had never been
to Grey Rock before.
The nine year old, like most boys his age-ambitious and eager, ran ahead of his slower counterparts
up the rocky hiking trail to get to the rocky top.
His mother, Marian Vigil,had his toddler brother, Eric Vigil, in tow and was struggling to keep
him engaged enough to continue the hike so she allowed Chris to run ahead.
The mother reports that at some point the toddler, Eric, flat out refused to continue
hiking but she does not explain why she didn't insist on looking for Chris until three hours
later.
Marian last saw him around two thirty pm, and officially reported him as missing to
the police between 5:30 and 6pm.
After almost a week of searching and with upwards of 1000 man hours put into the search
every day rescuers and volunteers alike were low in moral and spirits.
All in all one hundred and seventy rescue searchers combed the area for Chris, along
with 30 men on hourseback and three helicopters.
the Entire community at this point had pitched in with kitchen workers preparing food for
the rescue parties and organized and meticulous searches being enacted by both family members
and strangers.
Christopher's parents, Leroy and Marian Vigil, say their son was knowledgeable about
hiking and was well-versed in Trail safety.
He was a straight A student and an avid runner.
He would run two miles after school on the track, and was a strong swimmer.
The first evening's weather, after gorgeous temperatures throughout the day, took an unfortunate
and dismal turn with freezing temperatures of 30 degrees, with snow and fog hampering
the search for Christopher and caused rescue personnel to doubt his survival for much longer,
if not found and pulled out of the cold.
The volunteer search party would begin at 4am and would search until dark, but to no
avail.
Police were very concerned as Christopher was dressed in light clothing – green shirt,
green plaid pants, blue tennis shoes, and a maroon jacket and feared he would not survive
the night.
Sustenance was also an issue as the can of diet-Pepsi Chris walked away with was the
only nutrition Chris had on him.
Later his mother would recall having had a recent talk with Chris and regards to another
girl who had gone missing and had survived on candy in her pocket.
Based on recalling this conversation, Marian believes Christopher may also have had candy
in his pocket.
While many townsfolk volunteered to assist in the search the sheriffs department became
frustrated with amateur hikers who felt they could venture into the unforgiving wilderness
without a Compass or a topographical map.
These inexperienced volunteers would sometimes come down with hypothermia from being in properly
dressed and others would leave because of the cold without informing the other members
of the search party, leading to the search party believing that one of their members
had also gone missing and causing unnecessary stress and rigorous work for all involved.
With the Colorado weather being highly variable and unpredictable, the clear Sunday that Chris
had been missing was in existence no more.
Fog and snow made a helicopter search impossible on May 1 the morning after he went missing
but on May third the weather cleared and warmed and a helicopter search was able to be implemented,
however it yielded no insight.
At this point, investigators believed that, with this extreme weather, if Chris hadn't
made it off the mountain his chances of survival in the nighttime cold were slim to none.
Rescue workers poured over between 15 and 20 square mi of land with altitudes as high
as 8000 feet.
the rocky terrain was some most unforgiving in the Fort Collins area and rescue workers
feared for their own safety.
On day five of the search, with helicopters in use for the last three, police tried an
entirely new approach.
They "lost "three youngsters around the same ages Chris on the mountain (however they
were paired up with members of the sheriffs office the whole time).
The three children, along with their three partners, were shown the trailhaed where Marian
expected Chris to return, and then the pairs were dropped off in a meadow towards the top
of the mountain by a helicopter and told to find their way back.
They wanted to see where children Chris's age would go when they realized they were
not on the trail.
Two of the three children followed the creek, not the trail, and the sheriffs department
says have they continue to do so they would've eventually found their way off the mountain
within hours.
The other child went up the mountain in search of higher ground and became disoriented and
misjudged the target of the "home" trail as being some four miles away from where it
actually was.
Based on insight gain from this experiment rescue workers double down on the immediate
area where Chris went missing looking literally under every bush rock tree or shrub.
While searches were happening, police were imploring anyone who many have seen Chris
that day and was willing to give insight on his movements that fateful Sunday afternoon
to come forward.
As it was a weekend afternoon, the Vigils weren't the only ones on the trail, soaking
up the sun.
There was Allen Shoupan, a blond man hiking alone that Sunday, who said he saw Christopher
on the trail that day.
Christopher's mother, in an interview dated May 5th, stated Allen told her that he had
been sitting near the top of the mountain eating lunch when Christopher came up and
started talking to him.
He reportedly shared some food with Chris before offering to walk back to the trail
with Christopher.
Christopher refused instead asking where a different unmarked trail would take him to
which Allen replied he did not know.
Chris ran off and that was the last time Allen saw him.
Alan continued up the trail and about five minutes later hiked past Carol and Rebecca,
at this point all four hikers are meandering their way up the mountain.
Carol and Rebecca, who were also hiking at the time of Christopher's disappearance,
later told investigators that they spotted Chris walking ahead of them on the trail,
after he had spoken to Allen and after he had explored the drainage he referenced before,
so investigators know he made it out of the drainage area he had told Allen he wanted
to explore.
Chris asked the girls: "Did you see where the man went?"
To which Carol pointed up the trail.
Chris then asked "Are you going up to the rocks?"
They answered, "Yes, if we ever make it!"
And Chris went on.
They assumed that Alan was Chris's father based on the closeness in time that both Allen
and Chris passed the women.
While on their hike, Carol and Rebecca also saw an unknown man sitting on some rocks near
Christopher.
This man, they described, had dark hair and dark skin, wearing a straw cowboy hat with
a camera hanging around his neck.
This man did not match the description of the other witness that came forward, Allen
Shoupan, And has never been identified.
The two women sat down on a log within the vicinity of unidentified man, uphill if him,
but not within sight of him.
Shortly after they started eating they heard a young boy's voice yelling out in what
seemed like distress.
The women also said they heard a man's voice, they presumed it Chris arguing with Allen
who they thought was his dad, but they did not know for sure as Allen never spoke to
them.
After what seemed like a couple of minutes of arguing Chris started yelling for what
Carol and Rebecca would describe as simply"yelling just for yelling's sake".
Based on this alarming turn, One of the women wanted to check on the situation but out of
an abundance of fear and caution for their own safety they stayed put and the yelling
ceased almost as quickly as it had began.
When the women walked past that same area after eating, they saw only a dropped Diet
Pepsi can.
Christopher had been drinking a Diet Pepsi as he ambled up the trail.
Christopher, explains his family, was a consummate nature lover and would never have littered.
Rebecca picked up the diet Pepsi can and stored it in her backpack to throw away when she
got back to the parking lot.
It was never recovered.
Later when Alan hiked back down to the trail and was informed by Marian that he had not
returned Alan ran back up to the area where he had last seen Chris, where he encountered
Carol and Rebecca who he asked for help.
The woman told Alan they had not seen Chris since earlier when Chris hiked past them,
which happened shortly after Alan saw him.
They recalled investigators they told Allen: "We heard him yelling and another voice
and we thought it was you" to which Allen replied "it was not me".
They concluded it may have been the man with the straw hat and camera instead.
The pair of women reassured Allen that there was still 90 minutes of daylight left and
while the women offered to help look for Chris as they made their way back down the mountain.
Allen ran off obviously worried for the well being of the boy he had happened across earlier
in the day.
When the ladies returned to their car they drove around for a bit looking for Chris from
inside their vehicle.
When They circled back around to the parking lot they saw a red fire truck and were relieved
that they would take over the search.
By this time it was around 5:30 and it had been over three hours since Chris had run
ahead of Marian and little Eric.
When the women were pressed to recall what cars were in the parking lot they could only
recall a white Volvo station wagon and a light green car.
On Friday, almost six days after his disappearance, the search for Christopher was suspended indefinitely
due to an anticipated three to five feet of snow coming in and continuing to do so for
the foreseeable future.
This case brings up for Coloradans the more recent case of Jaryd Atadero A three-year-old
toddler who also went missing in the Colorado mountains, in the exact same Canyon as Christopher.
In 1999, on Big South Trail, Jaryd was hiking with a group of family friends and his sister
when he ran in between slower walking group and the faster walking group and got lost
along the way.
To fisherman saw Jared by himself as he walked in between the two groups but as they could
hear the slower group approaching they assumed he was well taken care of and he walked right
past them.
Before leaving the fisherman site Jared innocently asked them if the forest had any bears.
During the search, a park ranger at Mesa Verde National Park filed a sighting report at Mesa
Verde National Park in Colorado, a 9-hour drive from Poudre Canyon, after seeing Jaryd's
photo on the news while eating dinner.
He was certain he had seen the boy that day, and stated that the boy kept trying to hold
his hand.
A man who he had seen walking with the boy kept calling him something like "Gerald",
but thought nothing of it at the time.
His statement fell on deaf ears.
A friend of Allyn's named Cindy investigated the area where Jaryd had gone missing.
She happened to come across a family staying at a cabin way back in the sticks, who she
said was acting suspiciously.
They were painting their VW van a different color when they noticed her watching.
One of them jumped into a truck and sped over to her, screaming at her to leave.
She told a friend, who reported it to the sheriff.
But It was ignored.
Despite an extensive search which utilized thousands of man hours and resulted in a helicopter
crash Jared was never found.
Four years later some of jared's clothes were found at the top of a 550 foot vertical
peak, just 150 feet from the trail from which he went missing.
Strangely this peak had been torn apart piece by piece by search dogs in the ensuing rescue
attempt and therefore investigators thought it strange that an area so thoroughly searched
by both K-9 units and the Sherif's department would now-year-old such obvious and clear
artifacts as the child's outfit and shoes, with the exception of the shirt which was
still missing.
This find seemed at first to be evidence that Jared had been attacked and dragged up a hill
by a mountain lion, one of the original theories, even though there hadn't been any mountain
lion sightings in that area.
Bone fragments of part of a cranial bone and a small molar which was consistent with a
three year old was also found, although no concrete identification was made and no other
skeletal fragments from any part of the body was found.
But upon further examination the clothing brought more questions than answers as when
Jared's clothes were examined it was found his pants were inside out.
Also strange was a lack of bite or drag marks on the clothing, and an obvious lack of blood,
a required component in mountain lion attacks.
Also confusingly sinister was the state of the toddlers shoes- they looked new.
Not like they'd been sitting outside in the unforgiving snow and sun if the Colorado
mountains.
We're these clothes placed here as a red herring?
An attempt to throw investigators off the real trail?
These strange clues point to a possible abduction and not a wilderness death.
Jared's father Alan believes that this is the most logical hypothesis and vows to never
stop looking for his son.
The year that Chris went missing there were multiple alleged sightings of him.
In July of 1978 a boy who was deaf and unable to talk communicated that he had seen Chris
selling newspapers on the street.
By reading lips the boy was able to infer that Chris was selling newspapers to win a
trip to Disneyland.
Pueblo police were sent to interview the boy but with so little info and, from their perspective,
a tenuous source, no official report was filed.
Two weeks later, Don and Cindy Dooley, a vacationing couple from from Des Moines, IA were visiting
Cheyenne, a town in Wyoming about 45 minutes from Fort Collins Co.
While there, they claim they were approached by an intelligent tan boy with long hair who
told them he was selling newspapers and if he sold the most he would win a trip to Disneyland.
This was the same story as the deaf boy in Pueblo, Co.
This boy was wearing a green shirt (recall Chris was in a green shirt when he went missing)
and seemed dirty and sun-exposed.
About 15 minutes later the same couple spotted this same boy sitting with another boy his
age.
When the couple went to dinner the wife spotted a missing persons flyer with Christopher's
info.
"Oh my god!!!
That is the little boy we just seen selling papers" she yelled, clutching her husbands
arm.
Police were called as well as the father of Chris, whose information was on the flyer.
Mr. Vigil drove to Cheyenne but found nothing.
A few months later, in Wyoming September, a trucker, Glenn Moudy, reported being approached
by a boy matching the description of Chris- 4'8 and sixty pounds (originally Chris was
reported missing as 4'8 and 74 lbs).
The boy asked the man for a dollar for some food but the man, suspicious, refused.
The boy thanked him while looking rather nervous and walked back to what the trucker remembered
as a turquoise or light green car.
Recall Carol and Rebecca saw that same color car in the parking lot of Grey Rock Mountain.
The next morning the truck or drove into Cheyenne and see a missing poster of Chris immediately
called state police.
The Fort Collins Police made the 45 minute drive to Cheyenne where they interviewed Glenn.
He claimed that he was 100% sure the boy who had approached him was the same boy on this
missing flyer.
Furthermore he was so sure that he adamantly turned down ideas of receiving the $1000 reward
as he just wanted to help this boy find his family.
That same month a Mr. Claude Ryans reported seeing Christopher looking dirty and haggard
walking down Temple Avenue in Salt Lake City, Utah, which is a state that borders Colorado.
In 2012 Marian gave the National database for missing and exploited children a lock
of Christopher's first haircut as a baby for DNA analysis.
In 2013 a person named Julie Ferrer of South Dakota called police and said she had information
on a boy who went missing in 1978.
She claimed she knew who had taken him and gave a specific name, (although we are not
naming him at this point because there's absolutely no available evidence that connects
the two and internet vigilantes are a real issue in cases like these.)
Her statements are largely blacked out in the released police files.
The families of these missing children continue to hold out hope for some answers before they
leave this world.
Jaryed's father, hope and believe that he is out there somewhere, alive and waiting
to be found.
Others, like Christopher's mother and relatives, actually hope the opposite.
They believe that if the boys were alive it would mean considerable amount of trauma and
pain and they hope that extended and prolonged trauma was not part of their missing children's
story.
If you have any information on Christopher Vigil or any of the mentioned missing children
in this video, please contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
at 1-800-843-5678
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