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Chapter 1: What happened to Daniel Reoch in the winter of 2019?
Hi, everyone. I'm Delia D'Ambra, and on my podcast, CounterClock, I don't just revisit cold cases. I reinvestigate them. Each season, I turn back the clock on cases that have gone quiet over time and work to uncover what may have been missed. That means reexamining evidence, tracking down new leads, and speaking directly with the people closest to the case.
This season, I'm investigating the Lane Bryant murders. Over the past year, I've spoken with law enforcement, victims' loved ones, and individuals who have never shared their perspectives. I've followed leads from Chicago to Texas, reexamined timelines, and taken a closer look at what was happening in Tinley Park at the time and what may have been overlooked.
But even after all of that, I keep coming back to the same question. How has this case not been solved? This season of CounterClock is not just about what happened inside that store. It's about what happened after and what it might take to finally get answers. CounterClock Season 8 is available now, wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, park enthusiasts. I'm your host, Delia D'Ambra.
And the case I'm going to share with you today is its own incident. It's about a man named Daniel Ryok. And his story, in many ways, is a bit of a continuation of last week's episode, The Wilderness. Daniel's case isn't just eerily similar to the mysterious disappearance of Marshal Iwasa. It has apparent overlaps. So much so, you can't cover one case without covering the other.
To give you a quick reminder of the region I'll be talking about, today's story takes place near the Greater Pemberton area in the District of Squamish in British Columbia, Canada. It's a landscape known for its rugged beauty and mountainous terrain. In the fall of 2019, 29-year-old Daniel disappeared into this region, never to be seen or heard from again.
The mystery of what happened to him has now spanned several years, and those who knew him well are doing everything they can to keep attention on his case. And that includes one of his cousins, who's a big fan of this podcast.
She's part of a growing number of people who suspect the story of what really happened to Daniel might be connected to something much bigger and more dangerous than the wilds of British Columbia. This is Park Predators.
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On Tuesday, January 7th, 2020, a woman named Sonia Addis was at work when she got on social media and saw a post that stated her cousin, 29-year-old Daniel Ryok, was missing. The information was shocking. She'd been pretty busy with her own family and kids over the holidays and briefly remembered her father, Robert, mentioning that Daniel hadn't been seen for a while.
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Chapter 2: How did Daniel's family first realize he was missing?
And obviously, Daniel himself wasn't there. So that theory fizzled out pretty quickly. In mid-February 2020, Daniel's relatives from the Squamish Nation took another approach to search for him. Daniel's relatives from his mom's side of the family, who were members of the Squamish Nation, held a ceremony near where he'd last been seen.
One or two people in that group called on the spirits of their ancestors to help pinpoint where Daniel was. Members of the RCMP were supportive of the idea and even attended the ceremony.
One of Daniel's aunts told the press that even though he hadn't been found, his family believed the circumstances of his disappearance were highly suspicious, and they thought it was possible he'd been a victim of foul play.
Another aunt expressed that by doing the ceremony, they would be able to learn if he was dead or alive, because his spirit would either be present in the spirit world or it wouldn't be. His cousin who spoke with me for this episode attended the ceremony and described it as intense.
She said the leaders that were brought in are purported to have the ability to communicate with spirits in another realm. There was dancing, adornments like wooden masks, and ultimately the leaders led participants on a run into the woods and to a river where they stopped at a rock. They claimed the rock was the last object Daniel had touched.
And the leader's ending near the river seemed to imply that Daniel might have gone into the water and died. But his cousin told me that wasn't explicitly stated. She said she'd heard rumors that Daniel died by suicide in the waterway, but that's never been proven since his body has not been found. And that's not for lack of trying, by the way.
According to an article by the Squamish chief, the RCMP and other entities scoured waterways in the Squamish area for signs of Daniel, but nothing ever surfaced. Father's Days, anniversaries, and birthdays have all passed, and a spokesperson for Daniel's family at one point mentioned that those milestones were especially difficult to celebrate without him.
Relatives like his cousin established the Facebook group Daniel Ryok Missing, which now has more than 1,800 members. And it seems that chatter online is where people familiar with Daniel's case began to make connections between what happened to him and the disappearance of Marshall Iwasa. Now, to be clear, Marshall vanished on November 18th, 2019 from Lethbridge, Alberta.
But his GMC pickup truck was discovered a few days later on November 23rd, burned up near the Bryan-Waddington-Hutt trailhead north of Pemberton, British Columbia. And if you remember from listening to Marshall's episode, there were a number of items discovered around his truck that his family said they didn't recognize as belonging to him.
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