The Mystery of the Death Valley Germans
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Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And this is Stuff You Should Know. I don't really think you could call it part of our ongoing true crime suite, but certainly unsolved mystery suite, I think.
Yeah, semi-solved mystery, I guess, at this point, because we're talking about what's known as the Death Valley Germans. Pretty good band name, but it's in fact a very sad story from July of 1996 when a blended family of German tourists came to the United States for a three-week tour of California and Nevada and were never seen again alive.
Yeah, they just vanished into thin air, essentially, in Death Valley National Park. And I mean, it's weird. Essentially, there was one guy who we'll meet later who got it as close to solved as possible just from sheer determination. But the family that you're talking about, they were made up of Egbert Rimkus, who was 34. He was an architect. He was the dad. George. I'm not sure how to say George without an E. You took German. Are you familiar?
No, I guess it's George.
Okay, he was 11. He was Egbert's biological son. Connie Meyer, Cornelia Connie Meyer, she was 27. She was Egbert's girlfriend. And Max was Connie's biological son from a previous relationship. He was four. And Egbert had gone through a fairly difficult divorce recently. And so this trip was essentially meant to be like a fun bonding experience for the four of them to kind of form a family unit in this new, you know, new realities, new circumstances they were in.
Yeah. So they got to L.A. on July 8th. They had a return flight to Dresden, which is where they're from, for July 27th. And the on the docket was about a week or so in the L.A. area. Head on over to Las Vegas for a few days. Go to Death Valley National Park. Check that out. head over to Yosemite from there, and then go back to L.A. and fly home. It's a pretty standard little itinerary for that kind of three-week adventure, I would say.
Yes. And for the adventure, they rented a car, a 96 Plymouth Voyager minivan. And they rented it from Dollar Rent-A-Car. Being German, they would have rented it from Dollar because that's the American subsidiary of Deutschmark Rent-A-Car.
Yeah.
And it was due back on the 26th of July, which is the day before their flight back to Germany, right?
That's right.
The problem is, is Dollar Rent-A-Car never got their minivan back.
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