Two high school students from the Phoenix area were found shot to death after a Memorial Day weekend camping trip in late spring 2025. Seventeen-year-old Evan Clark, a student at Arcadia High School, and his friend, 18-year-old Pandora Kjolsrud were discovered on May 27 in a remote area near Mount Ord in the Tonto National Forest, between Mesa and Payson, Arizona. Authorities immediately categorized both deaths as homicides.

The investigation ran through the summer with no immediate arrests, and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office asked the public for help. Friends and family remembered Evan as a kind, well-liked teenager whose life ended abruptly.

Did anyone who camped near Mount Ord over Memorial Day weekend remember anything unusual or anyone who might have been in the area?