The Unexplained Disappearance Of Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon

Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon were two students from Amersfoort in the Netherlands who spent 6 months planning a trip to Panama as a combination of a vacation and a service trip. They intended to go hiking and touring, while also doing voluntary jobs including helping local children, teaching them arts and crafts, and studying Spanish.
They had been hiking around the jungle of Panama for the last 14 days as part of a backpacking mission trip and planned to stay for next months with the local host to do voluntary jobs at a local school.

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However, after waving goodbye to the family on April 1^st, 2014, to take to family’s dog on a walk through the scenic forests around the Baru volcano in Boquete, Panama, they were never seen again. Previously, they have posted their plan to tour the local village on Facebook, noting that they had had brunch with 2 fellow Dutchmen before setting out on the hike.
The night of the same day, the host family’s dog returned without the girls. The family quickly looked around their surroundings but decided to wait until sunrise to report to local officials. On the next day, April 2, the girls missed the private walking tour of Boquete with a local tour guide, leading to the host family contacting local authorities.

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An aerial search of the forest was carried out the next day, while locals also searched for them on foot throughout the village and lightly wooded areas. Kremers and Froon remained lost by April 6, prompting their families to fly to Panama with Dutch detectives, who combined forces with local police and dog units to hunt for them for 10 days.
Time kept passing by, turning days into weeks, and after 10 weeks there had still not been any trace of the girls. Then, when police started to lower the efforts, one local woman turned in a blue backpack, claiming that she had found it in a rice paddy along the river banks. They found 2 pairs of sunglasses, $83 in cash, Froon’s passport, a water bottle, and two bras within the backpack.

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The most remarkable find was Froon’s camera and two mobile phones of the girls. Police quickly examined the camera and phones, only to find eerie proof. The phones had remained in service for a week and 3 days since the girls went missing. There were 77 separate attempts to call the police over just 4 days, via 112 and 911, the emergency number in Netherlands and Panama, respectively.
Police were able to deduce the timeline of the missing of the girls thanks to the call log. The 1^st 2 emergency calls to 112 had been made hours after Kremers and Froond set out on their hike, neither of which was successful because of the poor service in the dence jungle. In reality, only 1 out of 77 calls in total managed to reach the person on the other line, but disconnected after 2 secs.

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Investigators even found that on April 6, there were numerous attempts to unlock Kremers’ phone, all of which failed because of wrong password inputs. Both cell phones were dead by April 11. However, while the call log seemed disturbing enough, the photos found in the camera were even more eerie.
The first images were captured on the morning of April 1, just after the two had begun their hike. They showed them on a trail near the Continental Divide, yet nothing suspicious was found in these. However, the second collection proved to be more daunting. They were captured in the dead of night, between 1 and 4 Am on April 8.

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In the pictures, the items of the women were spread out on rocks, with plastic bags, candy wrappers, oddly piled mounds of dirt, a mirror, and the most perturbing showed the back of Kremers’ head with blood leaking from her temple. Police were able to discover her clothing neatly folded along the edge of the river after examining the area that witnessed the discovery of the backpack.
The search continued for 2 more months, when police discovered a pelvic bone and a severed foot in a boot within the same location. Not long after, police found the girls’ bones. Froon’s looked like they had naturally decomposed because there were still parts of flesh attached to, while Kremers’ were stark white, appearing to have been bleached.
Officers investigated locals, tour guides and other hikers presented at the area during the same period, though they found no more proof of what had occurred besides the photos and call logs. The cause of death wasn’t also identified, due to the lack of proof.  To this day, the disappearance and deaths of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon remain a harrowing mystery.