The Mysterious Death of Trucker, Devin Williams #unsolvedmysteries



During Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, May 28, 1995, in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, the last thing any of the campers expected to see crashing through the woods was a forty-eight-foot, ten-ton, eighteen-wheel semi-truck. Lynn Yarrington was camping with her husband, Jack; she was astonished to see the large truck driving down the forest roads because they were not very large and normally not passable by that large of a vehicle. Most of the vehicles that drive on the roads are smaller four-wheel drive ones.
The truck thundered back and forth several times that morning. Two other campers had a frighteningly close encounter: it drove toward them and nearly ran them over. They were forced to drive in reverse until they could get out of its way. The driver never looked at them as if he recognized there was someone in front of him. There was no expression on his face at all. He did not attempt to slow down or look over to see if they needed help or anything. He just kept on driving.
Later that day, a carload of picnickers came upon the truck, now mired in a field. They spoke with a man they believed to be the driver. One of them, Charles Hall, asked him how he had gotten his truck into the forest. He responded, “They made me do it.” Charles said, “What?” and then the man muttered to himself, “No, you can’t help me out. I’ll never get it out of here. I’m going to jail.” When Charles heard him mention jail, he assumed that a hostage situation, hijacking, or kidnapping was taking place. He wondered if someone maybe had a gun on him in the cab. However, he noted that the man made no effort to keep them there or ask for help.
Later that afternoon, Deputy Dean Wells followed up a bizarre report that a truck was marooned in the heart of the forest. He was surprised that such a large vehicle would go down those roads. When he came upon it, he was awestruck. It was stuck in the mud in a meadow near Forest Service Road 137 in the Buck Springs area, about twenty miles from Highway 87. Its cargo, some 1,200 boxes of lettuce and strawberries, appeared intact and undisturbed. The refrigeration unit was running. The cab was locked. The man Charles had spoken with earlier had vanished.

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