The stepsister of a Colorado woman who was found dead along with her sister and teenage son at a remote Rocky Mountain campsite says the women fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years, but they were unequipped to survive off the grid.
Exposed to several feet of snow, chills below zero and with no food found at their camp, Christine Vance, Rebecca Vance and Rebecca’s son likely died of malnutrition and hypothermia, according to the autopsies released this week. Authorities haven’t released the boy’s name.
Those reports contained another chilling detail that brought stepsister Trevala Jara to tears: The 14-year-old boy’s body was found with Jara’s favorite, blessed rosary that she gave the group before they left.
“God was with them,” said Jara
Well God could’ve fucking helped a little bit then, eh?
He was a little busy forgiving a child rapist praying over one of their dozen victims.
God: seen ✓
Left them on read
Pretty sure he was just watching and eating popcorn, as usual.
Omg, just imagined Zach Star Himself as God doing this.
I’ll pull up a chair right next to him
He doesn’t lift a finger when a child is sexually abused by his representatives, he ain’t gonna give a shit here either.
Any god is evil.
Nah, all part of the plan.
/s
So you would rather God step in and make sure we only make good choices completely overriding our free will? Sounds kind of authoritarian.
Forcing people to worship an indifferent God under threat of eternal damnation sounds authoritarian too. Which flavor would you prefer for your sky daddy?
You’ll be happy to know relatively few religious beliefs have a concept of eternal damnation.
Really just two.
The rosary suggests these people were catholic, so I am shitting on the catholic God, not religion as a whole.
If they were Catholic than they can be presumed to accept and understand Catholic teaching that God does not directly interfere with the world or it is a violation of Free Will.
God does not directly interfere in the world
Except all those times he did.
I’m not here to debate Catholic canon with you, merely to inform you of what Catholics believe, as a former Catholic.
Strewn across the ground were empty food containers and survival books
Please master the survival books before returning to monke.
Well ‘They watched YouTube videos’ so really what more could they have done?
Ask chatgpt?
It could have given them useful tips on edible mushrooms.
Yeah, well fuck them. Except the kid. Fuck them for bringing the kid. You want to escape society, fine. But bring the kid after you’ve figured out how to survive in the wilderness.
People can’t survive in the wilderness. At least without a decent size community to support them. There are folks who make it years alone with training and knowledge, but you are always just one mistake or circumstance away from death. Humans are not built to survive alone.
The only way a small number of people survive alone is by having money and a large group of people to buy things from and have those things brought to them by the large group… Oh wait… That’s not alone… Right right. My bad.
can you even imagine? in these situations the kid would be lucky if it died first. if not, the kid was kept alive by the adults long enough for it to watch the adults die, then the kid had to die alone in the tent while it waited in the cold just for nobody to come and help. poor thing. I’m terrified just writing this out.
I don’t have all the details but this sounds like some very stupid campers.
I have done a lot of camping and I would be very cautious about camping “remote” in the Rockies. And no way in hell would I even dream About not taking food.
Sounds like they fucked around with nature and found out.
It also sounds like that boy was a victim of parental stupidity. I pity him.
yeah unless youre prepared to deal with the amount of snow that falls in the rockies and hunt/gather for food during that time its beyond reckless to try camping in those conditions. i knew someone that moved to alaska to do that with a buddy. they were way more prepared than these people and they came back within a year with their tails between their legs from mother nature kicking their ass.
It says it was updated today, but pretty sure this is old news. My concept of time is iffy though, could be weeks old story updated, could be months old story.
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Huh, I guess lemmy and reddit do have something in common.
I remember another story a few months ago but thought it was just a mother and son? Maybe that’s why it’s so familiar.
I searched to confirm and it’s weird that so many sites posted the story again super recently with what looks like no new info (except maybe the rosary in the son’s hand), but this one explicitly says they were found in July. The one you posted I didn’t see any date, which was why I was not 100%.
Seems the sister didn’t really care to go, but went to try to give them a better chance at surviving.
well they definitely escaped society
sharp as a whip
Oof
The hiker must have had the surprise of his life. Really sad that the campers didn’t have adequate supplies, wouldn’t wish that situation on my worst enemy.
I try to have more competent enemies
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