On May 24, 1980, 38-year-old Larry Dean Hill was on a fourteen-foot aluminum boat at Palisades Reservoir in Bonneville County, Idaho, when rough weather capsized the vessel about 100 yards from shore, just south of Big Elk Creek. The boat carried eight people, including Hill, his six-year-old son Rex Hill, friend Laddie Schiess and Schiess’s ten-year-old daughter Toni. Four passengers were rescued, but Hill, Rex, Schiess and Toni were not found and are presumed to have drowned. Larry Hill was last seen wearing hip waders. The reservoir water was about 51 degrees and 120 feet deep at the scene, and extensive searches followed without recovery of the four.

Human remains found near the reservoir in September 2002 — a partial skull, tailbone, pelvic bone and vertebrae from a male aged 25 to 45 — were later excluded from this case by DNA testing in 2021 and identified as a different missing kayaker from 1995. The search for Hill, his son and the two other missing occupants remains unresolved.

Did anyone on the forum have connections to that area or recall details about the 1980 rescue and subsequent searches?