Bradley Jay Trimble, 53, left Lubbock, Texas, in mid-February 2012 telling his girlfriend he planned to move to Las Vegas to try to earn a living as a professional gambler. He continued to exchange emails for a time; in those last messages he said he was traveling to the desert. The final confirmed contact was April 11, 2012, after which all communication stopped and he was reported missing to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Bradley’s vehicle was later found abandoned in a remote area of desert just across the Arizona state line. Arizona authorities conducted extensive searches of the surrounding terrain. Partial human remains were recovered in the same area where the vehicle was located, but the circumstances of how he came to be in the Arizona desert and what happened after his last emails remain unclear. Few details about his state of mind or possible difficulties before his disappearance have been made public.

Did anyone in the area at the time notice a vehicle or a man traveling through that stretch of desert in early 2012?