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And the other theories that circulated were less grounded even still, because there was the proximity to Barker Ranch, where Charles Manson and members of his family had been arrested in 1969, located within the Panamint Range, which led some to propose that the family had encountered desert corals.

cultists, but this required just completely ignoring the fact that Manson's case was 25 years old and the ranch had no active occupants at this point.

And then there's the government conspiracy angle, suggesting the family had stumbled onto a military secret, circulated without ever cohering into anything that actually engaged with what the evidence at the van site was telling investigators.

But again, just reaching.

It's a

Stretch.

But the physical evidence was clear about one thing.

Whatever happened to this family happened after the van stopped on foot and in one of the most remote corners of the California desert in July.

But which direction they had gone, nobody knew.

And without that, the case had nowhere to go.

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