This is the last known photo of Kris Kremers, a Dutch student who disappeared along with her friend Lisanne Froon in 2014 while hiking through the jungle in Panama.
When the daily text messages the girls usually sent home suddenly stopped, their families panicked.
The parents flew to Panama on April 6 and, together with police and search dogs, looked through the thick forest for ten straight days. They found nothing.
Ten weeks later, a local woman handed in a blue backpack she had found by a river. Inside were the girls’ phones, a camera, sunglasses, and some cash.
The phones showed that just a few hours after they started their hike on April 1, they had already tried to call emergency numbers over and over. Because of bad signal in the mountains, none of the calls went through.
Lisanne’s phone died on April 4. Kris kept turning her phone on and off between April 5 and April 11, but each time someone entered the wrong PIN or no PIN at all.
On the camera there were ninety flash pictures taken in total darkness between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. on April 8. Most show only leaves and rocks, but one disturbing shot shows the back of Kris’s head with what looks like blood in her hair.
Two months after the backpack turned up, searchers found scattered bones—a pelvis, a foot still inside a boot, and other pieces. DNA tests later proved they belonged to Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon.
Exactly what happened to them out there is still a mystery today.
